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GUITAR LESSONS by Craig Smith
CALL: 767-9344
Learn to play the guitar today, and enjoy your guitar and music forever. Online lessons are a wast of time and money, you can't there from such inaccurate methods, and being stranded without personal help watching your moves directly. Self instructional books and DVDs don't talk back to you telling you where you have to modify your hand positions and playing techniques. "One On One Private Lessons" with an expert in any field of study, guitar included, is the only way to success. You can become "A REAL GUITAR HERO" in your own life and perhaps to the world... who knows?
You can learn to play any style of music on guitar either accoustic or electric, from beginning to advanced levels using the most accurate and advanced techniques on the instrument. I teach guitar "ONLY", no distractions, or errors resulting from playing other instruments, with varying techniques. As "Bruce Lee", the martial artist once said to me shortly before his untimely death, "just be a master of one thing"... in my case he meant the Guitar. Also, since there is no hidden agenda in my lessons, such as the of selling products as with a music store, I am not employed in a shop as a worker to bring in customers. The focus is on just you and the art of playing guitar. I do this for the music, not for the money, you can go elsewhere if your interested in products... they will be glad to take your money.
As a player of guitar, I began at age five and started teaching guitar as a full time occupation (not a hobby) at twenty, while still getting my first degree in music composition, theory of music and guitar itself as my instrument of study. I have taught some of "The World's" best guitarists and other teachers of the instrument as well, significant players in the music industry. Many of these players are out there recording either their own music or often working with major music artists in concerts and on recordings. In addition, I have over 35 years of "full time guitar teaching experience", not to mention all the years of playing either solo, or with others... and as often being the warm up, or in between act for big time performers on tour. One of my students... years ago, use to fly from London England "weekly" for her lessons to my former studio elsewhere here in the USA. This has always been an interesting high point of mine to say the least, something I'll always remember. This continued for about a four year period until I moved to Nashville to write songs and work in the recording field there. Back in those early days, there were others who flew in by private plane usually to my uncle's airport, and then were transported by helicopter to my home about 10 miles away. These were interesting times, gone now... but not forgotten. Never the less, people considered their guitar lessons quite important then, and some still do today. As for example, I have been told by a former student of mine that Berklee School Of Music gets $50,000 a year for enrolment now in guitar/music education. I went there when it was only a couple of thousand dollars a year... Wow!
Also, I do not teach in a school room setting, presenting those limited guitar learning materials with restricted, handicapping knowledge that diminishes abilities and distroys the creative mind of an individual. My lessons in a professional studio that is fully equipped with "3 computers" with over 1000 gigabites of guitar/music educational materials... for printable handouts, personalized videos for enhanced learning, and aproximately 15,000 audio recordings in all music styles. The studio is always being updatedall the time, and includes at this time... audio and video production equipment, as well as the same professional music production equipment I have used for the creation of the over "50 albums" available worldwide by my wife Patty Ann Smith and myself. Many of my students also are popular favorite players on youtube, often having done their videos in the same studio I teach in right here in Charleston, SC., as usually an extension of their lessons which also guides them in performance abilities.
Please be aware that schedule times are limited, but not impossible. I like to do a "Free" interview with perspective students to see ahead of time what they need and where they really want to go on guitar. This process is also on going as the lessons are always being adjusted to meet the individual's progress.
CALL: 767-9344 ~ Craig Smith
You can also visit some of my over 200+ sites and links by just typing in (3 words) Craig Smith Guitarist. Or, try these URLs of mine
http://www.indieartistmusic.com
http://www.guitar1usa.com
Patty at Willie Nelson's PRI:
http://willienelsonpri.com/human-rights/6993/dignity-of-life.html
More:
http://www.youtube.com/user/craigsmithguitarist
http://craigsmithguitar.blogspot.com/
Also: we want to thank all those who have purchased downloads of some of the music from the sites above. Our distributor in LA has indicated on the sales report spread sheet many sales from the Carolinas. It is assumed these have been the result of actually these adds... thanks again.