Aimee Casahuilca
Refine your playing with a skilled tutor who uses advanced techniques and deep music theory insight.
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Aimee Casahuilca
Bachelors degree
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Each lesson is 55 min
50 lessons
20% off
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30 lessons
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20 lessons
10% off
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10 lessons
5% off
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1 lessons
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Aimee - Know your guitar teacher
With a Bachelor's degree in Music and a passion for teaching, I'm Aimee Casahuilca, your dedicated guitar tutor. Whether you're a beginner, advanced player, or a kid eager to learn, I'm here to guide you on your musical journey. My specialties range from chord progressions to fingerstyle techniques, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience. My personalized approach focuses on your unique learning style and goals. Together, we'll dive into music theory, scales, and various playing techniques. From acoustic to electric guitar, I'll help you master strumming, picking, and building your repertoire. Let's create a positive and engaging environment where you can express yourself through music. Whether you dream of playing your favorite songs or composing your own, I'll be by your side, making each lesson fun and rewarding. Embrace the joy of music with me as your guide.
Meet Aimee
Aimee graduated from Macquarie
Learner for guitar lessons
Guitar for beginners
Guitar for adults
Guitar for advanced
Learning Disabilities
Guitar for kids
Anxiety or Stress Disorders
ASD
ADHD
Home schooled
Guitar lessons quick guide
As a Guitar tutor specializing in Acoustic, Electric, and Bass Guitar, I provide personalized lessons for adult, advanced, and beginner students. My teaching style is a blend of progressive instruction, engaging activities, sight reading, creative exercises, and theory integration. I leverage various tech tools like Amp Simulators, Chord Diagram Apps, and Ear Training Software to enhance the learning experience both online and offline. I follow a diverse range of curricula including A-Levels, AP Program, Common Core State Standards, and more, catering to a wide audience of 10+ students. Each lesson is tailored to the individual student's goals and preferred genre to make learning relevant and enjoyable. By focusing on technique, expression, and fostering creativity, I aim to help students develop their skills effectively. Whether it's learning basic chords or mastering complex riffs, I am dedicated to guiding students at every step of their musical journey.
Types of guitar lessons
Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Electric Guitar
Bass Guitar
Guitar concepts taught by Aimee
The Tutor guided the Student through reading and interpreting guitar sheet music, focusing on rhythm, chord voicings, and special techniques. The Student practiced two songs, clarifying notation and finger placements. The Student will practice the pieces and review left-hand techniques in a future lesson.
Chord Voicings and Shapes: CAGED and Triads
Reading Sheet Music: Bass Notes and Notation
Hammer-ons
Ghost Notes
and Extended Notes
Arpeggiation and Strumming Patterns
The student practiced note reading and rhythm exercises in standard tuning, focusing on accurate tempo and dynamics. They then explored a diagonal scale in standard tuning with a metronome, emphasizing legato playing and memorization. Finally, the student experimented with a new tuning (F A C G C E) and began learning the corresponding F major scale.
Note Reading on the Guitar
Rhythmic Accuracy with a Metronome
Dynamics in Music
Scale Practice for Improvisation
Alternate Tuning (F A C G C E)
The student reviewed slash chords, learned 11th chords and their application, practiced a pentatonic scale exercise, and worked on sheet music reading. The Tutor assigned practicing the scales with a metronome and memorizing specific chord shapes. The next lesson will cover music theory and scales in a specific guitar tuning for math rock.
Reading Sheet Music
Importance of Metronome Practice
Diagonal Pentatonic Scale Exercise
11th Chords
Slash Chords (Inversions)
The Student practiced improvising riffs between chords using the pentatonic scale and learned about slash chords and chord inversions. The student was assigned to practice the pentatonic scale exercise, memorize slash chords, and practice triad inversions on the fourth string. The Tutor will send additional sheet music to practice reading.
Pentatonic Scale Riffs Between Chords
Triad Shapes and Inversions
Chord Inversions
Slash Chords
Major Bar Chord Practice
The Tutor introduced slash chords and chord inversions to the Student as ways to add variety to their guitar playing. The Student practiced chord progressions and arpeggios using these new techniques. The homework is to practice the third line of triads on the provided sheet and to focus on applying them to playing.
Slash Chords
Pentatonic Scale Application
Chord Inversions
Applying Chord Variations
The Student learned about sus chords and ninth chords on the guitar, exploring their theory and practical application. The session included working through examples of different chord voicings and fingerings, and applying these concepts to a piece of music. The tutor will send a backing track for the piece to practice with before the next session, and further exploration of extended chords and scales was planned.
C Sus Chord Positions
B Sus Chord Positions
Sus Chords: Suspended Thirds
D Sus Chord Positions
E Sus Chord Positions
Ninth Chords: Adding Color
Applying Chords to Songwriting and Pieces
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