1^st lesson free

Rory

Rate $50
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Number of students Rory has taught since their arrival at Superprof
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Number of students Rory has taught since their arrival at Superprof

$50/h

1^st lesson free

Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Electric guitar
Blues guitar

Experienced tutor in Guitar in Santa Cruz, Rory offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Electric guitar
Blues guitar

Lesson location

- At Rory's house: Santa Cruz
- online
- at your home or a public place : will travel up to 20 mi. from Santa Cruz

About Rory

From beginners to intermediate and advanced students, lessons cover a wide range of topics including - ear training, left and right hand technique for both flat-picking and finger style playing, beginning to advanced music theory, sight reading, rhythm and lead playing, and more.

With nearly 2 decades performance experience and over 12 years teaching thousands of private lessons, Rory provides musical instruction tailored to individual skill sets and goals.

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I've been a musician since early childhood. My parents performed and recorded professionally, and I first picked up the guitar at around 8 years old.

I took private lessons off and on through my teen years, started several garage bands and studied percussion in middle school and high school.

After graduating High School in 2003, I enrolled in a music program at Fullerton College in Southern California, where I studied jazz guitar, music theory and ear training, and recording engineering until summer 2005.

From 2004-2010, I performed in dozens of projects throughout Southern California. I performed jazz, hip hop, reggae, rock and roll, funk, folk, pop and more. During that time I continued to study independently and occasionally took private lessons with some of the areas best musicians from a range of disciplines including pianists, percussionists and guitarists.

From 2005-2010 I taught private guitar lessons at a teaching studio in Brea, CA. My roster included over 40 students from age 7 to 70.

In December 2010, I took a gig as lead guitarist for a rock and roll tap dance production which toured throughout China for 10 weeks.

In 2011 I relocated to San Francisco and started a project with Bay Area songwriter Maria Quiles, called Quiles & Cloud ((concealed information) Between 2011 to 2017, Quiles & Cloud performed over 400 shows in 38 states and recorded 3 studio albums, including "Shake Me Now" produced by Grammy award winner Alison Brown and released on Compass Records in 2017.

I now reside in Santa Cruz, CA and am involved in a project called Echoes & Artifacts ((concealed information) as well as multiple collaborations around the Bay Area.

About the lesson

Lessons are taylored to each student. The first lesson is generally an assessment of the student's musical background, as well as personal goals relating to the instrument. From there, each lesson is designed to target specific musical fundamentals required to achieve those goals over time.

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5h: $250
10h: $500

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This first lesson offered with Rory will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.

online

$50/h

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Standar pricings are as follows:

In-Person

Student's home:

- 30min = $35

- 60min = $60

- 90min = $75

Teachers home:

- 30min = $30

- 60min = $50

- 90min = $70

Online

- 30min = $25

- 60min = $45

- 90min = $65

Experienced tutor in Guitar in Santa Cruz, Rory offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

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Experienced tutor in Guitar in Santa Cruz, Rory offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

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About Rory

About the lesson

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Rate

Pack rates

free lessons

online

Details

Other tutors in Guitar

Jack

Hugh

Maceo

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Albert

Ginny

Bryan

Ryan

John

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Alexander

Nicholas

Thomas

Duncan

Matthew

Matthew

Steven

Brad

Javier

Andrew

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