The Music Page

 
I started playing guitar when I was about 7 years old. I'm not a serious practicer; I'm just an experienced hack. Luckily, the noise I make seems to be enjoyable by most. I spent most of my time playing in original rock bands in the '80s and '90s, with a short interruption in the late '80s to play guitar for the late Robert Hazard (RCA/BMG), best known for the song "Escalator Of Life" and his song "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", made famous by Cyndi Lauper. I have also worked with well-known producers Steve Goldstein (Steve Perry) and Bill Klatt (Days Of The New). Others I have worked with include Bryant, Sight Unseen, Permanent Damage, Drastic Measures, Citizen Kane, Merritt Gant (Faith Or Fear / OverKill), Baby Heather and various studio recordings. Now, I spend my musical time on country, funk, rock, and disco cover bands in the southern New Jersey and Philadelphia areas.

Virtual Lessons
I'm overwhelmed by the number of emails I've received since taking down my virtual lessons back in 2002. I've literally gotten hundreds of requests for the files, and to be honest, I wasn't even sure where I put them. But after digging around some popular Internet arciving spiders, I was able to find most of the lessons I used in the past, and am now putting them back online. I NO LONGER offer private lessons, as I am kept pretty busy with web design, my career, my family, and my bands.

After a number of years teaching private lessons for guitar, I developed many of my own teaching packets. I wanted to prepare the student to perform and be familiar and comfortable with the fretboard, while being able to retain his or her musical freedom. Here - back by popular demand - are some of my standard lesson plans for free download. While none of these works is a lesson in its own, each outlines a section of scalular and chordal theory for a potentially infinite practice regimen and hours of discussion. They were built open-ended so they could be used with a variety of students under most situations. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Online Publications
Also, you can download a few of my guitar lessons from various electronic periodicals. Here is a list of my columns on guitar9.com.

Exotic Scales, Part I
Tuplets and the Three-Note-Per-String Theorem
Get Out Of That Box!
Rand McNally And You
The Modes

Audio Files

Following are some audio files of my playing and/or singing. Feel free to take them and redistribute. Just please don't steal the songs, riffs, melodies, etc., as they are copyrighted.