Topics

Common lesson topics:
- Guitar Basics - tuning, posture, note production, chords, and other fundamentals.
- Guitar Foundations - scales, chords and arpeggios, mastering the fingerboard.
- Instrumental Technique - speed, facility, and hand synchronization.
- Reading - notation and chord charts.
- Theory - Circle of Fifths and key, chord, and scale construction.
- Improvisation - basic and advanced scale and arpeggio usage.
- Performance - chords and strum patterns. Singing while playing.
- Composition - theory and strategies for crafting great songs and instrumentals.
- Gear - Getting great sounds from your guitar, amp, and pedals.

Materials

These are the books Dan uses with his students and in his own practice:
- Berklee Basic Guitar Phase 1 & 2.
- Berklee Modern Method for Guitar books 1-3.
- Berklee Melodic Rhythms for Guitar.
- Berklee Reading Contemporary Guitar Rhythms.
- Berklee Reading Studies for Guitar.
- Berklee Advanced Reading Studies for Guitar.
- Mel Bay Modern Method for Guitar books 1-7
- FJH Children’s Guitar levels 1-3.

Software

Dan uses the following software in his guitar lessons:
- Guitar Pro 8
- Neck Diagrams 2
- Sight Reading Factory
- Sibelius
- GarageBand
- Logic Pro