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- Guitar
- Acoustic Guitar
- Electric guitar
- Blues guitar
Experienced tutor in Guitar in Santa Cruz, Rory offers private lessons tailored to your needs.
- Guitar
- Acoustic Guitar
- Electric guitar
- Blues guitar
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About Rory
From beginners to intermediate and advanced students, lessons cover a wide range of topics including - ear training, left and right hand technique for both flat-picking and finger style playing, beginning to advanced music theory, sight reading, rhythm and lead playing, and more.
With nearly 2 decades performance experience and over 12 years teaching thousands of private lessons, Rory provides musical instruction tailored to individual skill sets and goals.
Have any other questions? Feel free to ask!
I've been a musician since early childhood. My parents performed and recorded professionally, and I first picked up the guitar at around 8 years old.
I took private lessons off and on through my teen years, started several garage bands and studied percussion in middle school and high school.
After graduating High School in 2003, I enrolled in a music program at Fullerton College in Southern California, where I studied jazz guitar, music theory and ear training, and recording engineering until summer 2005.
From 2004-2010, I performed in dozens of projects throughout Southern California. I performed jazz, hip hop, reggae, rock and roll, funk, folk, pop and more. During that time I continued to study independently and occasionally took private lessons with some of the areas best musicians from a range of disciplines including pianists, percussionists and guitarists.
From 2005-2010 I taught private guitar lessons at a teaching studio in Brea, CA. My roster included over 40 students from age 7 to 70.
In December 2010, I took a gig as lead guitarist for a rock and roll tap dance production which toured throughout China for 10 weeks.
In 2011 I relocated to San Francisco and started a project with Bay Area songwriter Maria Quiles, called Quiles & Cloud ((concealed information) Between 2011 to 2017, Quiles & Cloud performed over 400 shows in 38 states and recorded 3 studio albums, including "Shake Me Now" produced by Grammy award winner Alison Brown and released on Compass Records in 2017.
I now reside in Santa Cruz, CA and am involved in a project called Echoes & Artifacts ((concealed information) as well as multiple collaborations around the Bay Area.
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All languages in which the lesson is available :
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Lessons are taylored to each student. The first lesson is generally an assessment of the student's musical background, as well as personal goals relating to the instrument. From there, each lesson is designed to target specific musical fundamentals required to achieve those goals over time.
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Rates
Rate
- L821
Pack prices
- 5h: L4105
- 10h: L8210
free lessons
The first free lesson with Rory will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 1hr
online
- L821/h
Details
Standar pricings are as follows:
In-Person
Student's home:
- 30min = $35
- 60min = $60
- 90min = $75
Teachers home:
- 30min = $30
- 60min = $50
- 90min = $70
Online
- 30min = $25
- 60min = $45
- 90min = $65
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