Center City Guitar Lessons By Ron Bennett Music

Center City Guitar Philadelphia Guitar Lessons By Ron Bennett Music offers private tutoring to enhance your present guitar skills or for the beginner interested in beginning the musical journey. I am a full time professional who has performed and written songs for over 30 years and worked with many local artists. I teach folk, blues, and ragtime (Piedmont) finger picking (Dylan, Jim Croce, Doc Watson, Blind Blake) as well as the electric styles of Muddy Waters, The Allman Brothers, SRV, and the Stripes. I offer help with playing authentic Mississippi Delta (Son House, Robert Johnson) bottleneck slide and have been a student and player of this form for over 40 years. The lessons are fun and tailored to your needs, but goal oriented and structured. I believe playing "by ear" is very important, and I teach ear training to all my students as well as basic reading skills. This includes the ability to recognize chords and chord patterns as the student listens so they can pick up their instrument and play what they've heard. Another important benefit of this ear training is the ability to transpose songs into another key on the spot. These abilities are within reach of all students. For the more advanced player, lessons attempt to de-mystify previously hard to understand concepts, like using modes in a practical manner, by reinforcing solid fundamentals through scale and agility exercises, exploring improvisational ideas, and providing the coaching needed to make instantaneous harmonic decisions while soloing. Free shareware programs found on the internet are used to minimize costs for books, tuners, metronomes, etc. Please send an e-mail for further information to [email protected].