If you live in the Phoenix Arizona Metro area, Joe gives lessons on the following:
Guitar ( Fingerstyle and Flatpick, no rock )
Slack-Key Hawaiian Guitar / Dobro / Lap Steel
Advanced 12-string guitar Styles
Banjo (5-string [ Clawhammer and basic Scruggs ], Tenor and Plectrum )
Basic Mandolin ( all forms )
Medieval Celtic Harp
Basic Elizabethan Lute
Appalachian Dulcimer
Basic Folk and Country Electric Bass
Autoharp ( Stoneman/Carter style )
Ukelele ( ukulele )
Basic Sitar
Performance presentation and musical arrangement of acoustic music and songs
Other stringed/fretted instruments and acoustic styles by special arrangement;
No Fiddle, Bagpipes or Pedal Steel
Joe teaches Monday thru Thursday from 3:00 pm until 7:00 pm at
Boogie Music, 3552 W. Cactus Rd, Phoenix AZ, 85029, (602) 978-6688.
Terms: One one-half hour lesson per week, $90.00 per month payable monthly
in advance, on the first week of the month .... and if the month has five lessons in it, you get the fifth one FREE!
NO CHECKS ACCEPTED. No reading of music is required, and no students under 12 are taken, unless by special arrangement.
24 hours notice is required to miss a lesson, or you pay for it anyway.
If you miss two lessons in a row without contacting me you will be dropped from the roster.
Effective 18 April, 2003: If you sign up for lessons, pre-paid or not, and do not show up for the first lesson, and do not contact me within 24 hours before or after, you will be dropped immediately.
Philosophy: The initial lessons will concentrate on the proper forming of chords,
and the mechanics of right and left hand movements, with concentrated practice required until these basic steps are mastered.
Ear training is essential, as NO formal music reading is taught. Theory / tablature will be taught as it applies to the particular
instrument, style and individual needs of the student.
The "How" of playing is emphasized rather than the "What," and independent study and creativity are strongly
emphasized. Self-motivation is a plus.
Books: We don' use no steeenking books. Unless you want to.
Tablature: We don' use no steeenking tablature. Unless you want to.
GoldTone Banjos
I am an endorser of Gold Tone instruments. In my opinion, their banjos are, for a comparatively small amount of money, the best you can buy.
The banjo player here is Mr. Fred Coon, who is NOT playing Clawhammer style. It sounds like it, but the technique is completely different. This is a good example of
"If it works, it's real!" Filmed at the Sharlott Hall Folk Festival in Prescott, AZ.
THIS, however, is just here to keep us all humble.
Notice the sharps and flats in there. These are caused by the
fact that the modern musical scale is arranged in WHOLE TONES
(the Ionian mode) and HALF TONES (sharps and flats). Look at
a piano keyboard. The BLACK keys are the sharps and flats.
We put a sharp/flat between every whole tone EXCEPT between
B - C and E - F. Don't ask me why we do it this way....we just
do. Everything comes out even that way. Don't worry about it.
And, by the way, a tone may be either sharp, or flat, depending
on how you're looking at it....F sharp is the same as G flat, for our purposes,
for example.
Interested?
Call Boogie Music (602) 978-6688 to schedule your lessons.
24 hours notice is required to miss a lesson, or you pay for it anyway.
