Hello, I'm Adam. I'm a professional musician with twenty-five years' experience. I'd love to impart the lessons I've learned from my career.

Hello, and welcome to my instructor page! During my twenty-five year professional career, I have collaborated with Grammy-nominated songwriter and folksinger Tom Brosseau, multi-Grammy nominated producer John Moyer from Disturbed, and producer Jason Schimmel from Red Fiction and Secret Chiefs 3. I have also made appearances as a guest vocalist with Norwegian Progressive Metal band Leprous, and Progressive Rock Orchestra The Invincible Czars. I am also an original songwriter and performing artist currently based in Austin, Texas. My specialties in guitar teaching will cover basic to advanced music theory, basic sight reading, rhythm, pitch and interval recognition (solfeggio), chord phrasing, chord inversions, and strumming and picking techniques. I will enrich your natural development of tone, style, and control, and of course, help you identify and nurture that 'it' factor that makes you the unique artist that you are. I would love to work with students of any skill level - from beginner to advanced.

My music teaching background includes both ensemble and individual lesson plans, in both academic classroom and performance hall environments. My teaching emphasis is holistic at the core, with the flexibility to transition into the more technical, depending on the circumstances and the particular learning objective. Students will be encouraged to bring songs they love into our lesson plans, and they will also be encouraged to spontaneously create their own chord progressions and melodies through structured writing sessions and improvisational exercises. My main focus as a guitar teacher is to promote best practices, with strong emphasis on fundamentals - anatomical awareness and posture, functional movement, active listening and, later on, stage presence. Only with a competent understanding of these core aspects of guitar playing can students achieve their creative and performance goals. My objective as a guitar teacher is for my students to leave each lesson with a greater degree of confidence in themselves, to take the knowledge I share with them into their professional music careers, or to simply continue on with their lives possessing a deeper understanding of guitar playing and music in general.