Keith is a very good guitar teacher. He's also an amazing guitar player, although good players do not always make good teachers and vice versa. The thing I really like about him, which I was maybe a little concerned about at first, is his flexible teaching method. I'm typically the kind of person that needs a lot of structure when I work on something; otherwise, I have trouble gauging my progress and I can become frustrated. The guitar teacher I had in my 20s (who, I have to say, was awesome, too) had a fairly rigid teaching methodology. He had two books -- one he wrote and one off the shelf -- and we started at the beginning of each. We did a few pages of lessons from each per week, and if I hadn't run out of money for lessons, I would have made it to the end of both books.
Keith, on the other hand, tailors his lessons to what you need and what you want to learn, and he does it in a way that the learning is not too painful. When I wanted to work on strumming patterns, we worked on a Neil Young and a Beck song, and it was super helpful. When I wanted to work on seventh chords, he wrote a nice little lounge-y chord progression exercise, and it was not only useful but it sounded good and was fun to play. We talk about scales and music theory, and I always come out of it knowing more than I did before. I still work out of books, and Keith helps me through them when I ask. He also taught me how to play "Ziggy Stardust", which is a nice little addition to my small (but growing!) songbook. Anyway, as I said previously, the bottom line is that Keith is a very good teacher and certainly worth the investment in lessons. read more
