Baer's Music Service - Guitar, Piano, Bass and Drum Lessons in the Barnstable and Hyannis Areas - Cape Cod

Guitar requires a lot of physical attention and dexterity, just as any instrument but in a specific way, any stringed instrument. Getting the guitar to sound "good" is one of the most frustrating processes in learning to play. A piano key for example, always sounds like a piano key. Wrong notes are played, but when played correctly tone and sound is at the mercy (to most degree) of the piano. That is not to say that the piano is an easy instrument. However, when playing a string instrument tone and sound is almost completely in your hands.

Guitar is also a tricky instrument to read music on. Because the notes seem "scattered" to novice players, they don't always know what it is they are actually playing. This is frustrating to other musicians when playing with guitarists and it is also a shame that many talented guitar players haven't learned the intricacies of music and theory where deep music appreciation and education lies.

I have developed a plan that recognizes those weaknesses and strengths. Many students have complained about previous teachers that don't teach or even know how or why music works the way it does. E.g. Why a G7 resolves to C or how you can use a sub-five chord to modulate to another key. Why it works, how it works, what it sounds like and how you can use it.

Of course we also learn the songs that the student wants to learn. And my goal is to get the student to the point where they are able to learn and figure out new songs and music themselves.

Guitar lessons consist of the following:

• The five basic chords
• The notes in those chords
• Strumming Rhythm
• Playing melodies and reading music
• Altering chords to major and minor
• Adding tensions to chords
• Harmonizing melodies
• Analyzing songs
• Barre chords
• Much more...