Justin - Guitar tutor - Amherst
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Justin - Guitar tutor - Amherst

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Justin

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Justin - Guitar tutor - Amherst

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  • Guitar
  • Acoustic Guitar
  • Electric guitar

Conservatory educated musician with over 30 years of experience playing and writing, from folky fingerpicking to rock/metal, classical composition and film scoring. 7 years of tutoring experience.

  • Guitar
  • Acoustic Guitar
  • Electric guitar

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About Justin

My first six years of teaching private lessons were at a music store where I was held to a professional standard from day one, which I uphold as an independent teacher. I found my calling into music over 30 years ago as a teenager and went off to conservatory, where I quickly discovered that teaching was a part of that calling. I was the "music theory nerd" many of my peers turned to with questions and I enjoyed the process of helping them see what I saw, and sometimes figuring out things I didn't know yet together. I spent my summers in the Berkshires, Massachusetts, working as a stagehand for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center, their annual summer festival, where I was fortunate enough to have backstage conversations with luminaries like famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and be immersed in music around world-class musicians. I spent a few years as a public school substitute teacher in the suburbs outside Washington, D.C., before teaching at that music store in Maryland for six years. I spent 7 years living in Germany where I met a gifted filmmaker who loved my music, and began doing some film scoring, including a feature-length adaptation of Goethe's "Faust" and the short film "Und Raus Bist Du", which spanned the musical gamut from modern gentle love songs to psychedelia to orchestral scoring. We currently have a cartoon in development which the German version of PBS has indicated they want to begin airing in 2026. Clients include the James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin and many projects for the Freie Universität Berlin. Film scoring utilizes all my musical abilities from playing guitar and piano, writing music in an extremely wide variety of styles, and recording/mixing/mastering in my professional home studio. I returned to the US in late 2022 and moved back to Massachusetts, sorely missing teaching. I began teaching private lessons from my home in Amherst, and am looking to expand into teaching online lessons.

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About the lesson

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
  • +2
  • levels :

    Beginner

    Intermediate

    Advanced

    Professional

    Kids

  • English

All languages in which the lesson is available :

English

From the beginner to the advanced, everyone has different aims with music and different ways of learning. I strongly believe in following where my students are being led by the muse, and believe my strength as a teacher lies in being able to see many different paths towards understanding and progress, and getting a feel for the approach each individual responds to best.

Whether you just want to enjoy playing by yourself at home as a hobby, rock out in a band, or take a deep dive into music theory/songwriting/composition/arranging (and even home recording or film scoring), I take sincere joy in helping you get there; it’s not just a job for me, but part of my life’s purpose.

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Rates

Rate

  • RM198

Pack rates

  • 5h: RM992
  • 10h: RM1984

online

  • RM198/h

Travel

  • + RM25

free lessons

This first lesson is free to allow you to get to know your teacher so that they can best meet your needs.

  • 1hr

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