Berklee BA in Guitar Performance

Santi F.

My name is Santiago and I am a graduate from Berklee College of Music with a Bachelors in Guitar Performance achieving Summa Cum Laude. My focus is playing jazz, blues, bossa nova, finger style guitar, and I enjoy studying musical concepts such as theory and improvisation. With years of experience teaching at various music schools, delivering 1 on 1 personalized lessons in various genres as well as teaching group classes to students of all ages, I am easy to get along with and work hard to deliver high quality music education, as was taught to me. My youngest students are 6 years old, I teach various middle and high school aged students, and teach many adults of all ages and skill levels as well. My strengths as a music teacher include a strong ability to teach music theory step by step, I am a patient teacher, and I appreciate and teach all styles of music.

Studying with me starts by understanding where you are at and what your musical goals are. Some goals may be wanting to understand what is going on within the music and learning music theory, learning genre specific improvisation language, songwriting techniques and knowledge, fretboard mastery, etc.
Along the way I will help adjust your technique to help your chords, scales, improvisation, etc. come easier, feel comfortable, and sound better. I will share all of the practice exercises that have helped me with concepts such as phrasing, improvisation, learning the fretboard, hearing the different qualities of chords and scales, etc., and make you a well rounded musician.
Lessons are as serious as you want them to be depending on your musical goals.
Let's get better at playing the guitar!