Guitar Guru Teaching Rock and Blues Guitar for 42 Years... My name is Richard, and yes, I've actually been studying, playing, and performing guitar for the past 52 years, since age 7, and teaching for 42 years. My specialties are: Teaching you any song you want to learn. Are you stuck trying to learn a certain song, or how to play a certain style? Want to learn the SRV sound, or Albert Collins? Roy Buchanan or Robben Ford? I can show you how to get that sound, and how to play the licks that sound like them. Just have the CD, sheet music (I read treble clef fluently), or guitar tab ready, and you will know it within an hour. Secrets of the Fretboard Revealed. You just know there's a grand scheme connecting all those frets and all those strings, but what is it? None of the books, and none of the magazines mention it. But I learned it from the late great San Francisco guitar teacher Keith Allen, my mentor since 1973. Learn CAGED and the fretboard will open an exciting new world of guitar for you, such as 125 different ways to play "Louie Louie" in C. You'll never look at the neck again the same way. Slide guitar (bottleneck). Electric, acoustic or lap, brass or glass. This is my favorite guitar style. Make the guitar cry like a forlorn singer, or scream like a razor-back hog. Play 3- to 6-string chords, bend strings under the slide, learn vibrato, in regular or open-E tuning. The Art of Comping, or playing the rhythm guitar interestingly and with variety. Once you know CAGED, you'll never be stuck playing rhythm in the same position or the same boring way. I'll show you more turn-arounds and ways to play I-IV-V than you ever knew existed. Guaranteed. Lead guitar. I will teach you how to play lead and solos in any style, and how use the different scales and modes, plus tips and tricks. After learning to read guitar music in 1964 as a 7-year-old, in 1973 as a teen I went to Blue Bear Waltzes School of Music in San Francisco, the 1st "Rock & Roll College." There I learned fretboard and music theory, composition; and studied with my practice partner Chris Hayes (Huey Lewis & The News), Bonnie Hayes (Bonnie Raitt's composer), Keith Allen (Steve Miller Band), and many others. Since 1974 I've been teaching only intermediate and advanced players. Others can teach you, but I've likely been doing it longer than they've been alive. I teach what most won't, and I don't want to see you every week unless you ask for it. One-time lessons just to learn a song or some technique are fine. I am available for select intermediate and advanced students in the Boulder (Colo) area. Put together a master class of 5 and you learn for free.

Email me: guitar@richardrose.com