Music Lessons with Brian offers private, individualized lessons from a State-certified music instructor to students of all ages and skill levels. Brian is friendly, professional, skilled, and focused intently on providing good lessons to hard-working, dedicated students. 
 

Why should parents pick your program
In the world where guitar teachers are a dime-a-dozen, Brian stands out as a formally-trained music educator with a degee in music education who relies on proven pedegogical techniques and inovative ideas to reach students of varying learning types. Brian is not a musician who teaches on the side, he is a educator who is a musician. 

What I teach？

My specialty is technique for flat-pick, steel-string acoustic guitar which is appropriate for a wide variety of genres and popular music styles including jazz, rock, country/western, bluegrass, folk, and more.

I also love teaching beginners to play the bass guitar, mandolin, ukulele, alto saxophone, keyboards, some percussion and various other brass and woodwind instruments. I can even show you how to set up your didgeridoo!

Hi, I'm Brian!

     Originally from Texas, I trained as a musician and music educator at the Northwestern State University School of Music in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Upon graduation, I left LA for New York City and discovered my niche as a private lessons instructor there would be to offer the same level of private instrumental music instruction to New Yorkers that I had grown accustomed to in the music-program-rich Southern United States, which I did there from 2006 to 2020. When COVID struck--and teaching now-all-virtual lessons from a one-bedroom (shared with another professional ALSO working from home) became unworkable--Connecticut called... I moved to Black Rock with my wife, retaining my student base from NYC via virtual lessons, and am eager to expand into my new stomping grounds: The Connecticut Coast! 

While Music Lessons with Brian doesn't offer a free introductory lesson, Brian knows that not every teacher is the right match for every student. I've never personally had a lesson go sour, but, should a student decide after the first lesson that we are not a good fit, there will, of course, be no obligation to pay for it...nor any hard feelings!