★★★★★
I’ve been taking guitar lessons from Gregg for several months now and I’ve found him to be a wonderful, patient, and caring teacher who is very generous with his time. He’s also a super nice guy!
He takes the time to find out what type of music you want to learn, and then creates a customized lesson plan so that you can reach your goals. I really liked how he teaches the proper form for playing the guitar (right and left hands) because it makes it a lot easier to hit the right notes and keeps you from getting sore fingers or arms.
There have been many occasions where I have gone over my allotted lesson time (when there is not another student arriving right afterwards) to keep learning new material and playing what I’ve already learned.
During one lesson, Gregg graciously changed my guitar strings for me while he had me practice my chords on one of his guitars. He was also explaining how to change the strings at the same time. No lesson time was wasted.
While Gregg does stress the benefits of practicing, he understands that many of his students are busy professionals who may not be able to practice as much as they would like to. So he doesn’t give you a guilt trip if you haven’t practiced much in between lessons.
He is very accommodating and tries to get me in for a lesson whenever it fits into my schedule.
I think that Gregg’s rates are very reasonable.
Gregg is fantastic artist in his own right. He has written a lot of his own original music, which he plays around DC, mainly to benefit the children’s music education non-profit organization he heads up, Guitars Not Guns.
I highly recommend DC Guitar Lessons for anyone who wants to get some guitar skills!!