ONLINE MUSIC LESSONS
Why take online music lessons from Grand Staff Music School?
• Learn to play guitar, bass guitar, piano, voice, ukulele, mandolin, and songwriting from anywhere in the world without leaving your home.
• Have access to professional music instructors with years of teaching private and group lessons; instructional experience at the collegiate, theater, public and private schools, and institutions; professional experience as session/recording, performing, touring, musicians.
• A structured and linear approach to studying music. No more frustration with trying to teach yourself while sorting through piles of books, videos, and DVDs.
• No more wasting time sifting through often times incorrect or incomplete tablature and transcriptions online. Our teachers will help you learn the right fingerings, technique, and information to play correctly.
• No more YouTube videos from some person somewhere with unknown experience as a guitar player or instructor. Sign up today for music lessons designed specifically for YOU!
Our Online Programs
Not sure what you want or need to learn? No previous experience with this instrument? Let us provide you with some simple basics to get started. We’ll supply all the manuscripts needed, you just follow along!
Try a Workshop Program! These workshops are designed by musical genre and playing style. This program is for those who have 2 plus years on their instrument but wish to move their skill level up.
What You Need To Get Started
We can connect for your lessons through any technology you feel comfortable with:
• FaceTime for Apple devices
• Skype, Download the program free here www.skype.com.
• Zoom, Download the program free here https://zoom.us/download.
Extended Areas of Study
• Intervalic relationships and pitch recognition
• Scales/modes
• Keys and tonicizations/modulations
• Triads (major, minor, diminished and augmented)
• Chord inversions and chord extensions
• Harmony, chord progressions and chord function
• Rhythms and time signatures, counterpoint
• Transcribing music
• Parts, arranging
• Notating chord charts/lead sheets
• Nashville Number System
Music Theory & Ear Training
Students who study music theory and ear training lessons gain a fuller understanding of how great musicians, performers, and songwriters execute and develop their craft, and how they can use these same processes, skills and musical “rules” to their advantage. These skills help students, performers, and songwriters to improve their individual skills and help them work more efficiently in an ensemble.