"Vreny is the best guitar teacher that I have ever had. I have been playing guitar for the past 17 years. I have been a student with Vreny for almost 3 years. And I must say, that I have probably learned more and progressed faster than I did in the first 10 years of my playing under his tutelage. The lessons are fun and exciting and well thought out with no time being wasted. He wants you to get your money’s worth. The minute you walk in the door, he is ready to go."
(Joshua Picard, guitarist Ninefinger)

I Deliver The Ultimate Guitar Lesson Experience!
 

Welcome!
 
If you are new to guitar, you are about to discover an unbelievably fun and rewarding journey.
If you are anywhere from beginner, intermediate to highly advanced: you will find renewed joy and satisfaction with guitar and enrich your musical journey, as you will discover many new sounds, textures and colors, techniques and possibilities.

What Makes This “The Ultimate” Guitar Lesson Experience?

1. Proven Results:
   
   
   • No other guitar teacher will help you progress as quickly and effectively.
   • A focus on “smart learning”: you will practice short drills, never long exercises.

2. Unbeatable Top Quality:
   
   
   • I am one of the very rare guitar teachers in LA who developed a structured teaching plan
   • I also provide:
     • A song library with over 44,000 songs in any genre.
     • A music library with hundreds of books.
     • An extensive sheet music library and access to sheet music of any song you can think off in any style.
   • My students love that I am hyper prepared and organized.
   • Client Support.

3. Fun:
   
   
   • I am known to be a friendly, very patient, caring, relaxed yet driven and inspiring teacher with a great sense of humor.
   • My students love practicing because I give them short, efficient drills and exercises.
   • My students enjoy a more profound sense of achievement because they learn and accomplish more with lesser pressure and in lesser time.

4. Affordable:
   
   
   • For the higher quality offered
   • For the immediate results and progress you will experience.

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Why Is This Approach so Unique and Effective?
 
I graduated 5 years early and saved ten thousands of dollars in tuition.

When I started learning guitar and music, I loved it so much I decided I wanted to do this for a living and know everything about it.

I earned a 3 Degrees in Classical Guitar Performance (10-year Conservatory plan, Belgium), in Jazz/Rock Guitar Performance and in Recording Production & Engineering (5 year dual major Berklee College of Music), all Summa Cum Laude, in merely 10 years time, without stress or pressure. None of my amazing, world-class music teachers believed that this could be done

You will enjoy exactly the same time and money saving results and progress, because I teach using the same guitar plan, principles and techniques that I applied to speed up my results and progress when I was a student myself.
I am no more intelligent, no more talented, nor was I practicing or studying any harder than other students in college.
Everybody can achieve and enjoy the results I have achieved. As a matter of fact: all my students do.

Here’s some of the “secrets” that make my time and money saving approach to guitar mastery so unique and efficient.
 

1. I Know How The Mind Works.
   
   • Short, timed drills and mapped out practice routines = faster progress = more fun.
     
     One of the things that sets me apart from most any other guitar instructor is:
     1. My interest and intense study in psychology and in the workings of the mind
     2. My application of those principles in improving my student’s results and learning experience.

     I will give you short, well-defined drills to be practiced with a timer. (10-15 minutes max in length)
     This will keep your concentration at peak performance: you will get more done and will retain more information with lesser effort at a much faster pace.
     I am the only instructor in LA who does that.

     Research has revealed that the brain works a certain way: “little chunks of information, regular intervals”.
     Focusing on a concentration-intense task for more than 15 minutes at a time is unproductive because your ability to keep up the focus rapidly declines after 15 minutes. Your progress and growth declines accordingly after 15 minutes.
     

   • Subtly interwoven in the guitar lessons, you will also learn:

     1. How to resolve resistance
     2. How to rid yourself of disempowering beliefs
     3. How to be the best you can be and fulfill your fullest potential in no time.

     
     

   • Understanding The Student.
     
     
     1. I am exceptionally well trained in understanding and intuitively feeling what is going on in the person I am working with.
     2. The teacher always adapts to the student, never the other way around.
     3. It is never your “fault” when you don’t get something… it is the teacher’s.
     4. It’s ok to be nervous in your lesson. Guess what? I always was too. So were my teachers when they were students. Believe this or not: so were your idols and favorite guitar players in their lessons.
     5. By the nature that you are out of your comfort zone during a guitar lesson: you will learn as much about yourself as you will about guitar.

   
   

2. A Unique, Logically Structured Approach to Guitar.
   
   • My guitar approach guarantees maximum efficiency and progress:
     
     1. None of your lesson time gets wasted on me writing down lesson material. This is a common complaint I hear from students who previously took guitar lessons before meeting with me. I have printable lesson materials covering everything there is to know about guitar & music.
     2. I have a highly structured teaching plan that will blow your mind.
        The teaching plan is totally customizable to your level. Wether you are a complete beginner who does not know how to hold a guitar or you’re an advanced guitarist whose been playing for ever, you will improve faster than any other top instructor can guarantee you.

   • The Results:
     
     I started developing my own approach to learning guitar while I was a student in music school, because I got frustrated with the unstructured way guitar is generally taught and with my slow progress.
     I realized that music schools adhere to an inefficient approach to guitar training.
     From the moment I came up with my own system, my teachers (who were bound by the school’s curriculum) noticed instant faster progress in me than in all their other students, and attributed this to what they described as “extra special talent and abilities”.

     This sudden accelerated progress proved that my system was more efficient than the curriculums of the top schools I was studying at.

   
   

3. Paying for Quality Saves You Money:
   
   • Your time and talent are valuable:
     1. A common complaint I hear from people who studied guitar before, is that “their teacher was playing all the time during their lesson”. That does not make any sense to me that a teacher would do that. It is your lesson, not mine: you will be playing a lot. I am there to help and guide you.
     2. Another common issue apparently with many instructors is their need to talk about themselves and their careers during lesson time. Your lesson is all about you, not about the instructor. The teacher should only talk when necessary to convey new information and to help you get the material down.

   • You deserve this
     
     
     1. You always get the quality you pay for in life and you really can afford anything you want. It is all in the mind.
     2. Getting cheaper lessons, usually means paying a lot more in the long term. The lack of experience and lack of preparedness that you get from a cheaper or lesser passionate instructor ends up costing you extra money and unnecessary time and energy.

   
   

4. Passion and Drive
   
   • I am not a performer who also happens to teach:
     1. I am a pro guitar teacher who also happens to perform.
     2. I am known for my passion for teaching and for my positive energy.
     3. I am also known for my drive in constantly providing an enjoyable, fun and rewarding educational experience.

   • Enthusiasm and Inspiring Nature
     

     I have been teaching for many years. Nothing is more rewarding than seeing a student leave my teaching studio with a happy smile. It’s very energizing and that is what keeps me going. Based on stories I hear from many students who studied with other instructors before, it is rare to find an instructor who teaches for the right reasons.

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What I Teach.

You Will Get…

A thorough guitar and music training in a relaxed, comfortable, air-conditioned and air-purified teaching studio, from a very patient, easy-going, friendly, fun, guitar/music teacher who knows what he is doing, and who is passionate about music, teaching and sharing knowledge.

A Broad Lesson Overview.

I teach acoustic, electric and classical guitar, bass and every possible string instrument.
Lessons are customized to what it is you would like to learn on guitar. Not everybody has the same goals, dreams or ambitions, and we work on whatever it is you would like to work on. There are many ways to becoming a superb guitar player: there is no particular wrong or right or better way. All ways are equally valuable, and eventually all lead to the same mastery.

The following list gives some idea of the vast possibilities offered in my guitar instruction. I organized the list by level, but many of the topics are not specific to a certain playing level. As an example: you don’t have to be advanced to learn walking bass, you could learn slide at any level, etc.

• Beginners:
  1. Beginner chords.
  2. Strumming and Simple Rhythms.
  3. I guarantee you will be able to play at least 5 songs after your very first lesson, even if you never touched a guitar before.

• Intermediate:
  
  1. learning all your favorite tunes in no time
  2. ear training,
  3. improve your sight-reading,
  4. finger picking techniques,
  5. triads in all 12 keys on all stringsets,
  6. how to write music, put the sounds you hear in your head onto paper,
  7. improvisation in jazz, blues and rock idioms,
  8. electronics and equipment,
  9. slide guitar,
  10. all 7 modes and their fingerings,
  11. classical guitar performance and technique,
  12. Blues accompaniment styles, blues rhythm playing and improv techniques,
  13. all about rhythm: from swing, to Texas blues rhythm technique, to reggae, to funk techniques, to advanced polyrhythms,
  14. squealing harmonics, tap harmonics, and all that fun stuff
  15. how to write (better) songs: everything about song writing,
  16. tensions,
  17. style and genre studies (blues, reggae, ska, metal, hard rock, rock, fusion, jazz, folk, classical, etc.,
  18. ways for singer song writers to enhance your songs by improving your guitar playing,
  19. recording and production,
  20. Guitarist psychology: how to find your own sound, how to overcome stage fright, how to achieve stage presence and charisma,
  21. Learning guitar solos from the masters or your favorite bands.

• Advanced:
  
  1. advanced harmony and harmonic substitutions,
  2. 7-finger tapping,
  3. drop 2, drop 3, drop 2 & 3, drop 2 & 4 voicings in all keys on all stringsets,
  4. walking bass lines accompaniment on guitar,
  5. impressive speed picking and sweep picking techniques,
  6. crazy whammy bar techniques
  7. how to apply four-part choral writing and the study of classical composition (traditional harmony) through voice-leading concepts on guitar,
  8. jazz comping,
  9. melodic and harmonic minor and their modes, whole tone and diminished scales, etc.
  10. composition and arranging applied on the guitar,
  11. advanced improvisation techniques and concepts,
  12. pentatonic substitution,
  13. advanced harmonic concepts and reharm,
  14. Learning songs and solos from the masters: Satriani, Vai, Steve Morse, Pat Metheny, Dream Theater, etc. or whatever songs you want to learn

The list goes on; there is no limit to the things you can learn about music and guitar under my teaching.

All Styles & Genres.

All musical styles: from classical to pop, rock, punk, funk, blues, hard rock, metal, fusion, world-ethnic, to jazz.

My students can bring in anything or any song they would like to learn in any style of music. I have a huge library of guitar transcriptions in my studio. If I don’t have the book or chart, it takes me less than a minute to find the accurate GuitarTabPro transcription to any song.
If no transcription of the song you want to learn can be found, it takes me on average about 4-5 minutes the most to figure out guitar parts to entire songs note for note.

Some Lesson Sample Materials.

1) The Major Scale
2) linear vs in position
3) singlestring gtr necks
Blues w sliding m7b5
Dom 7 Arpeggio

Tuition

You are probably thinking to yourself that this is going to be expensive.
I got fantastic news for you: the cost of studying with me, is barely a small fraction more than what much lesser experienced instructors charge.

Not only that: I offer many special deals that knock down the lesson costs tremendously.

Rate		$50/hour
10-Lesson Discount		Buy 10 lessons, and you only pay for 9 with a $20 extra savings: save $70.
20-Lesson Discount		Buy 20 lessons, and you only pay for 16: save $200. Get FOUR lessons FREE!!!
		1 Lesson – $50   4 Lessons – $200   10 Lessons – $430 (you save $70) 20 Lessons – $800 (you save $200)
Small Group Lessons		If you want to save a lot of money, or cannot quite afford paying $50, have your lesson with 1 or more friends. More people = more discount. I teach up to max 4 people in my studio.
		2 students – $70 ($35/person) 3 students – $90 ($30/person) 4 students – $100 ($25/person)
Referral Discounts		If you refer someone to me, the student you referred gets $40 discount on the next 4 (or more) lessons purchase, and so do you. If you refer 10 continuing students within a 3 month period, you get 10 free guitar lessons (a $500 value).
Gift Certificates		Nothing more fun than getting a gift certificate to study guitar with a patient and experienced guitar coach. Buy the number of lessons you want to gift someone using the “Buy Now” links, hen click on following link to print the gift certificate and write the number of lessons on the certificate in the blank space. Guitar Lessons Gift Certificate
Webcam Lessons		If you can’t make it to your lesson or would like to have your lesson from the comfort of your own home, this is the way to go. Click here for more info!
Cancellation & Refund Policy		There will be no make up lesson or credit for missed lessons that were not cancelled or rebooked within 24 hours. Lessons need to be rebooked or cancelled at least 24 hours before your scheduled lesson time. There is NO refund for late cancellations.

General Info.

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