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The 2013 Winter/Christmas Guitar Recital is set for this Sunday, December 15th. at 6PM! It will be held in the beautiful sanctuary at University Congregational Church (9209 E. 29ht St. North, 67226) Participating students should plan to arrive starting at 5:30 to check in and get tuned up, earlier (closer to 5pm) if a sound-check is required so we can start promptly at 6pm.
Casual dress is fine. Invite whomever you want, no cover charge or tickets to sell. But we are asking that everyone bring a canned good or staple food item to benefit the Kansas Food Bank. Please be sure to hang around for the Group Picture and the Grab Bag giveaway (sponsored by Midwest Drum & Percussion) for the participating students afterwards. It should last about an hour.
I have a blast conducting the Mini-Recitals. Students are doing a great job gaining experience while playing songs by artists that they are interested in studying. It’s great to give students that are motivated to perform a chance to do so in an encouraging setting. It is a fantastic way to hone performance skills, enhance repertoire, prepare for auditions, meet some fellow students & parents and see results from your guitar lessons as you progress.
Over the years we’ve had a wide variety of music performed at each recital from beginner melodies, solo guitar pieces, singing and playing contemporary songs and jamming along with backing tracks. Students often pick a pretty wide range of music to perform: Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, Cream, Jason Mraz, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Jimi Hendrix, Kerris Dorsey, Radiohead, Megadeth, The Beatles, REM, and Lynryd Skynyrd just to name a few…check out some of the most recently added highlights http://www.guitarrw.com/ !
Be sure that your plans for this Winter and Spring include participating in the new series of Mini-Recitals! We plan to offer more opportunities like this throughout the year, so keep practicing and be ready for your chance. Looking forward to doing more in 2014!
Robert White Guitar Instruction
Experienced, professional and comprehensive music lessons
for electric guitar, acoustic guitar and electric bass.
Lessons for adults, teens and children, from beginner to advanced, since 1989.
Accepting students of all ages for any style.
An individual approach for each student
with lesson plans designed to put the fun in fundamentals
and to meet each students unique talents, abilities and musical interests.
Private Lessons with group workshops and optional recital opportunities throughout the year.
Lesson topics can include (but are not necessarily limited to): Rock, Pop, Country, Blues, Singer/Songwriter, Praise & Worship Band songs, School Jazz Band songs and related skills, Classic Rock, Folk, Finger-style, Gospel, Metal, Hard Rock, Technique, Chords, Rhythm, Lead, Soloing, Improvisation, Accompanying, Playing and Singing, Recording, Digital Audio Basics, Reading Music, and much more…
Practice tips that produce results!
Affordable half hour and hourly rates. Gift Certificates Available.
Lesson studio conveniently located at Midwest Drum, with some in-home lessons available within a limited area.
For more details or to schedule lessons please fill out the contact form with your contact information (and preferably a daytime phone number)!
Let’s get the jams started!
Recitals are offered for students that are ready and willing to step out of the practice room on to the stage. I hope you will agree this is a good and fun way for developing guitarists/musicians to hone their performance skills in a encouraging setting.
Each recital typically features a wide range of students and reflects each student’s musical interests at the time. What you’ll hear could be a landmark achieved in a lesson series, a challenging work-in-progress or a shining addition to his or her repertoire. In any case it is an honor and privilege to cast these and see students as they progress!
For more information http://www.guitarrw.com
Recitals are offered for students that are ready and willing to step out of the practice room on to the stage. I hope you will agree this is a good and fun way for developing guitarists/musicians to hone their performance skills in a encouraging setting.
Each recital typically features a wide range of students and reflects each student’s musical interests at the time. What you’ll hear could be a landmark achieved in a lesson series, a challenging work-in-progress or a shining addition to his or her repertoire. In any case it is an honor and privilege to cast these and see students as they progress!
For more information http://www.guitarrw.com
Heeere’s Nathan!
Recitals are offered for students that are ready and willing to step out of the practice room on to the stage. I hope you will agree this is a good and fun way for developing guitarists/musicians to hone their performance skills in a encouraging setting.
Each recital typically features a wide range of students and reflects each student’s musical interests at the time. What you’ll hear could be a landmark achieved in a lesson series, a challenging work-in-progress or a shining addition to his or her repertoire. In any case it is an honor and privilege to cast these and see students as they progress!
For more information http://www.guitarrw.com
September 2012 Guitar Recital at Midwest Drum & Percussion! Robert White Guitar Instruction
Call today to get your lesson schedule set up for the Spring, immediate openings are available! After-School, Evening, Saturday and some select morning times are currently available. Call for more information (316) 304-1497. In Home Lessons are still available upon a limited basis and may be best suited for home-schooled students, please ask or call for more info. Lets get started with the jams!
Feburary 25th, 2013 would have been Mel Bay’s 100th birthday. Not much is commonly known about the man whose name graces many of the books that are among my favorites to recommend to guitar students. For instance, not many people know that he started his publishing company to help train GI’s coming back from World War II to play guitar, but you can find about all that and much more when you read “The Mel Bay Story” by Ray Dankenbring. To celebrate his centennial, Mel Bay Publications has made is biography available for a free download here. http://blog.melbay.com/the-mel-bay-story/ http://blog.melbay.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/96470EB.pdf
Mel Bay refined his approach over the years to include many styles of music, always keeping a solid grasp of musical fundamentals in sight. His efforts to do so are far reaching and legendary. None other than famed actor Johnny Depp claims to have locked himself in a room for a year with a Mel Bay chord book to learn how to play guitar! Numerous notable guitarists and musicians that have learned from Mel Bay’s books have gone on to write for Mel Bay Publications such as Chet Atkins and Tommy Emmanuel. It’s fair to say that Mel Bay broke ground like no one else to take steps to educate guitarists about the amazing possibilities of six strings and your imagination.
Mel Bay’s chord books, along with his well studied Modern Guitar Method One are chock full of rock-solid musical fundamentals applied to the guitar. While I do supplement with my own hand-outs and other books, the Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method series serves as a great start in a lifetime of musicianship, music making and guitar playing.
I believe that guitar/bass lessons involving standard music notation first, along with other guitar-centric notation (tablature or “tabs,” chord charts and diagrams, etc…) and a flexible plan to engage the student’s interest, is still the best way to gain a well rounded understanding of the instrument. Trendy methods or “music schools” touting “no music reading needed” may be useful to the most casual beginner just starting out, but for a serious advancing student with goals of playing beyond in a school jazz band or orchestra, a church praise band, or looking to gain techniques to meet and/or exceed expectations in musical performance and artistic challenges, a basic understanding of standard notation enhances musicianship and raises the game.
The skills gained when learning standard-notation music reading translates to other instruments and to other musicians -it’s universal. Music reading will go a long way to improve overall musicianship- including the ability to play by ear. In my teaching studio I have a “Hall of Fame” gallery with pictures dozens of students that have completed the Modern Guitar Method One and the equivalent children’s methods – it’s quite an achievement! Who’s gonna be in the “Hall of Fame” next?
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