Guitar Lessons with Keith

Keith is AWESOME. I really can’t say enough good things about him. I started lessons with Keith almost 4 years ago in the DC area. Since he has moved to Austin I continue lessons with him over skype. There are a ton of teachers that are local in DC that I could have switched over to when Ketih relocated to TX but I chose not to because I knew that I would never get the same level of attention and effort that I get from Keith. When I first started with Keith I was really a novice — I played a lot of strummy kinds of babyish songs in all those dumb Hal Leonard guitar books. Keith began to truly customize our lessons and rather than relying on the crappy lesson books that are floating around — Keith took the actual music I like to listen to and arranged it so I could learn how to play it on the guitar. This was key to me becoming a much stronger player. It is 10 000% more pleasurable to practice when you’re playing songs you actually like and want to play well. In this process, Keith actually encouraged me to shift into more of a finger style guitarist. This was a milestone in my playing — finger style was something I intuitively just picked up a lot faster than strumming and my level of play shot up exponentially in just 6 months. Keith really cares about your musical growth and at the same time never makes you feel bad if you’ve had a busy week and didn’t practice as much as you should have. As a very busy working professional I really look forward to my weekly 1 hour lesson with Keith. I think if I hadn’t stuck with Keith I probably would have gotten discouraged or lazy and stopped playing. I’m sure there are a lot of great guitarists in Austin — but that doesn’t mean even a fraction of them are good TEACHERS. With Keith you get a great guitarist and song writer AND a phenomenal teacher. One final anecdote — Keith was so beloved in the DC area among his students that when his band, Burgess Meredith, came on tour and stopped in town to play, the venue was at least 50% his former students come to cheer him on. The music was great too :)