Private Guitar Instruction In Folk, Pop and Rock

This 1-on-1 online live course is for all, beginners to intermediate to advanced guitarists.  Anthony Bez will teach you proper picking technique and control, how to access the fretboard, exercises for the correct left-hand position, and the formation of chords. Depending on if you want to learn to read music Anthony may teach from a method book but he will most likely expose you to experience in reading tablature and resources online for learning songs. Anthony can then correct, arrange or adapt these songs so you will have a gratifying experience. You will learn chords, chord strumming patterns, scales, scale exercises, and how to practice and utilize them in context.

About Anthony Bez: Anthony Bez began to study the guitar by the time he was aged just five years old, performing regularly by age nine and debuting his classical guitar skills by his early teens. Since then, he has performed throughout Europe, as well as the USA. He studied professionally at Arizona State University, Berklee College of Music, and the Mannes College of Music.

He was a recent recipient of a grant from "Meet the Composer", has been the Music Director/Composer of the Actor’s Shakespeare Company for over 16 years and is the current serving Secretary of the New York City Classical Guitar Society. Anthony is a completely devoted teacher and was on the faculty of the American Institute of Guitar for over ten years. He has also written articles that have appeared in NYlon Review, Soundboard Magazine, the publication of the Guitar Foundation of America and Guitar Review. He has two CDs of his own compositions, "Holy Mountain" which has been featured on WNYC’s "New Sounds" as well as on Public Radio here in both the United States and in Canada, and his solo follow-up album "Return to Mountain" which was recorded at the Rinzai monastery and retreat center Dai Bosatsu International Zendo Kongo-ji.