Greg's guitar seminar at the Auburn Bluegrass Festival

	Lesson Types and Rates
	For lesson information please contact Greg Brouelette lessons@gbguitars.com 530 210-3170
	My Musical Background
	I've been playing music literally since before I could remember. I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5 years old. I played trombone in the school band in elementary and Jr. High school and even made it to the Los Angeles Unified School District All City Band. In High School I started playing classical guitar and taking classical guitar lessons. When I graduated High School I moved on to Orange Coast College and studied classical guitar with Reuben Delgado who was himself a student of Pepe Romero. During that same time I also studied Lutherie (guitar building) with Jim Long and Bob Mattingly. Since I was in my teens and early 20's I also played electric guitar and even some jazz guitar. I was particularly interested the guitar styles of Brian May (Queen), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Al DiMeola (Return to Forever and his own band), and Allan Holdsworth. My family is full of musicians. My Grandfather was the leader of his own jazz band. His sons, my uncles, are all professional musicians. My mom was my first piano teacher and still plays to this day. In our family it was perfectly normal to hang around the piano and play and sing together. During family gatherings like Thanksgiving and Christmas I'm happy to say that after the holiday meal our family congregated around the piano, not the television. That love of music, and jazz in particular, made me want to start studying jazz guitar. I've studied jazz guitar with several great teachers including musician, teacher, and recording artist Bob Hahn as well as Carl Verhayen who later went on to be an amazing LA studio musician as well as the guitar player for the band Supertramp. I started to combine my classical guitar technique with the jazz music theory that I was learning and started developing a love for acoustic and electric fingerstyle playing. After 20+ years of playing guitar I found myself wanting to do something different. That's when I picked up The Chapman Stick Greg playing at Stick Night 1999 I played The Stick for several years and even did Stick Demonstrations at The Stick booth at the 1999 NAMM show. Greg Howard, Me, Yuta and Emmett Chapman As more years went by I found myself in a musical rut once again. Then one day I was walking through the little mountain town of Julian and saw a flyer for the Julian Bluegrass festival. I went to the festival and fell in love with the social aspect of the festival scene. I spent more time jamming in the parking lot than I did watching the bands on stage. That weekend spawned a love and interest for bluegrass music. I found that the flatpicking technique I learned playing jazz worked very well playing bluegrass. Well, once I started playing bluegrass that opened a world of other instruments. I now play mandolin and banjo as well as guitar. For the past two years I was lucky enough to participate in The Mandolin Symposium where I was able to study with such amazing mandolin players as David Grisman, Mike Marshall, Evan Marshall, Radim Zenkel and Chris Thile. This brings us to today. Now, after more than 30 years of playing stringed instruments, I find that it's time to follow my passion. I've taught guitar and mandolin lessons on and off during my musical life but I'm now pursuing my love of music and teaching full time. We've purchased a home in Northern California in the town of Weimar near the city of Auburn. I'm now teaching full time at a wonderful facility called Music & More. Music & More is a great facility. Located in the DeWitt Theater at 11596 1st St. in Auburn. Music & More is the former USO theater for what use to be an Army base. It's an old brick theater with a great sense of history. Bob Hope and Hedy Lamarr have performed for the troops on this very stage. When you walk into the venue you know you're there to study the performing arts. I really enjoy working there. Me and Sean Robinson teaching the Mandolin seminar at the 2nd Auburn Bluegrass Festival.
	Lesson Types and Rates My rates are $25 for a half hour lesson. Usually, this is paid on a per month basis at a rate of $100 per month. Some months will work out such that you get 5 lessons instead of 4. I do not charge for that extra lesson. However, I do take time off for the standard holidays so it tends to all work out. But I will make sure that you always get at least 4 lessons for your $100. My teaching style is this: I like to work on just enough technique to get a new student playing some basic songs. From that point on I teach new technique by teaching a song that uses the technique. Proper hand position and fingering technique is incredibly important, but it's also incredibly boring to learn. I like to help the student progress technically by applying that technique to actual music. This way, the student can look back each month and say 'Not only did I learn these new chords, or scales, or fingering techniques. But I can also play all these new songs.' And after all, the goal of your lesson is to play music. Instruments Guitar, Acoustic Chords, Scales, Reading Tabulature, Sight Reading Classical Fingerstyle Steel String Fingerstyle Jazz Bluegrass Guitar, Electric Chords, Scales, Reading Tabulature, Sight Reading Rock Jazz Chapman Stick Chords, Scales, Reading Tabulature, Sight Reading Technique Fingering and Rythmic Independence Mandolin Chords, Scales, Reading Tabulature, Sight Reading Bluegrass Classical Banjo Chords, Scales, Reading Tabulature, Sight Reading Three Finger Traditional Bluegrass Style Melodic Style Clawhammer Style
	You can contact me at: Greg Brouelette lessons@gbguitars.com 530 210-3170
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