guitar.markbatchelder.com

guitar lessons by mark w. batchelder over 40 years of experience playing rock, country, blues, and folk guitar. fort worth, texas 817-926-5555 method: learning to play the guitar should be fun! it's more fun to learn by playing songs. i teach adults, teens, and kids. i encourage non-playing parents to actively participate with their kid's lessons. my teaching style is to use patience and positive reinforcement - similar to suzuki method violin instructors. i start with songs and teach a little theory all along the way. teaching: i teach things i wish someone had taught me when i was learning: chords (simple, power, barre), patterns (solo, rhythm, shuffles), songs (accompanyment while singing, performing, improvising), useful theory (chords, numbers, transposing), and music reading. lessons are usually 1 hour per week. background: in addition to being a professional guitar instructor, i am also an attorney, a qualified mediator, a graduate-level mediation trainer, a member of the band-p