★★★★☆
I took lessons from Greg for about a year and I was thoroughly impressed. I stopped the lessons because I was moving out of the city and starting law school…not much time or money for guitar lessons. However, within that year I learned so much from Greg. He’s very patient and is willing to work with people from any level. I had some practical guitar background, but little theory. Greg helped fill in the knowledge gaps and showed me many excellent exercises that quickly made me a much better player.
I took a lesson or two with 3 teachers including Greg before deciding to stick with him. Greg had a coordinated lesson plan for basic skills and more advanced players while the other teachers I tried just went with the flow; I didn’t feel like I was building toward anything with them. I was also very impressed by the integration of exercises and songs. The exercises (specifically chord exercises) were also the chords for a particular song, so once you mastered the exercise, you had also learned a new song. Each lesson included exercises, new songs, music theory, and some jam time.
Greg is an excellent teacher at an affordable rate, and I still recommend him to my DC friends.