Hello, my name is Jared, though I go by Red. I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle with a focus on Hot Club Jazz Guitar. I have been teaching for over 20 years and have taught students of all ages as well as students with goals spanning from a hobbyist to music university students, to students wishing to write and record their own music and playing in bands.
In my lessons I use popular songs from throughout the history of rock,...
Hello, my name is Jared, though I go by Red. I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle with a focus on Hot Club Jazz Guitar. I have been teaching for over 20 years and have taught students of all ages as well as students with goals spanning from a hobbyist to music university students, to students wishing to write and record their own music and playing in bands.
In my lessons I use popular songs from throughout the history of rock, from Chuck Berry to AC/DC, to Ozzy, to Nirvana, and everything in between as etude studies to teach technique, theory, and scale theory. Most importantly, I get the students playing songs they enjoy within the first lessons and doing it properly with flawless technique and learning the theory behind it as well. My method involves looking at printed transcriptions of songs and learning how to read the music, mostly tablature, but if the student wishes, standard notation as well. This way the student will gain the ability to look at any transcription of any song they might want to learn on their own and be able to read the piece of music. While learning the song, we will also study the compositional techniques used by the songwriter, as well as the techniques used in the production of the tune, so that the student may better understand how to apply those same techniques in their own original music. We will also focus on and learn the technical abilities needed to play these tunes as well as the music theory behind the songs, again, with the ultimate goal being to apply these same new techniques in the student's own music, or to understand these concepts in other songs. When we finish learning a piece of music, not only will the student be able to play the song, but the student's understanding of music as a whole will have increased as well as their technical ability. Each piece of music studied will challenge the student just a little bit more in order to improve their abilities and overall understanding of music.
