Specialties
I offer private and group guitar lessons for beginning and intermediate students. My method for teaching guitar is based on developing the dexterity in hand. When I teach each chord, I start with simple exercises using two fingers at a time and then gradually add the third and fourth fingers in the final exercises. I have a specific set of songs I use to teach rhythm and lead guitar, but am open to students bringing in songs if they are appropriate for their skill level.
History
Established in 1997.
I started teaching guitar lessons in Springfield, Ohio, in 1992 at a local music store called Guitar Attention Center, and worked there for 4 years. I took a year off to focus on my band before deciding to move to Boston. I started teaching guitar again shortly after moving here and have been doing that for a living ever since. In 2000 I bought the domain www.beginnerguitarlessons.com and eventually hired someone to build a simple website that offered some free guitar lessons and advertised my private lesson practice.
I've branched out to some other places in the last ten years. In 2003, I started teaching private guitar lessons at a private school in Dedham called Nobles and Greenough. In 2006 I was hired by the Boston Center for Adult Education to teach their group guitar class, and I've also been teaching a group class at the Newton Memorial Spaulding elementary school since 2009.
Meet the Business Owner: Derrick C.
I've been teaching guitar for over 30 years now, and I still love it. I teach classic rock, alternative, electric and acoustic blues, and folk fingerstyle. I was part of the music faculty at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, and also taught at a music school in Brighton. I moved to Springfield, PA in 2020 and started teach in-person lessons here in 2021. In 2025, I opened up my own place to teach guitar called Delco Guitar Studios, and I teach in-person and online lessons here.
I'm currently playing with a cover band called the Garage Bandits and we perform 4-5 times a month around the Philly suburbs.