Ric Denis | Guitarist - Teacher - Composer
Guitar Lessons in Perth & Smith Falls
Ric Denis has over twenty-five years teaching and performance experience in many styles, including jazz, rock, blues, folk and country. Ric is an honours graduate in jazz/classical musical education at Mohawk College and has developed a curriculum that includes…
Rhythm, Styles & Strum Patterns
Chords & Progressions
Scales & Improvisation
Ear Training & Guitar Theory
Guitar, bass, ukulele, harmonica, songwriting/composition
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Hey everybody! I know the sign says guitar lessons but I also teach harmonica too. Here's some techniques that help build a solid harmonica solo.
Ric is also involved with the RBC Bluesfest - Be In The Band program as Band Coach and an Instructor at the Bluesfest School Of Music and Art
Chords... That’s where we begin.
Chords are fundamental for playing guitar, and you won’t have to learn ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’. Guaranteed!
Progressions ... Let’s put ‘em together.
Songs are chord progressions. They’re quite simple really. You’ll see when you write your own tune.
Rhythm... Now let’s make it groove.
Cause it don’t mean a thing if it don’t got that swing...or that funk, or punk, or rock, or reggae, or heavy, or twang, ballad, waltz...
Scales & Improvisation... Now let’s make it sing.
BB King, Chet Atkins, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Carlos Santana...need I say more?
Ear Training... Now see what you hear.
Yes, that does sound weird. The idea is to learn how to teach yourself. Are you going to want to take lessons for the rest of your life?
Guitar Theory... Now I get it!
Actually, you’ll get it with every step you approach. And then you can impress your friends and family with words like ‘enharmonic’ and ‘syncopation’. Guitar Theory is the same as musical theory with more concentration on understanding the fret board of a guitar when playing. It is the knowledge that allows you to communicate and to jam with musicians other than guitarists and to understand what they are talking about. It allows you to learn songs with your ears and to recognize chord progressions rather than relying on tablatures. This is not an attempt to change the way you play, but rather to open up some opportunities, to step up with some conviction, to give you some ideas and to expand your repertoire.
*The Ric Denis Guitar School in no way wishes to show disrespect in any form or fashion to the author of the song ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ or any music educator who chooses to subject...er, sorry... enlighten their students to it.
What’s it cost?...
Your private 1/2 hour lessons are at a regular time, once a week.
-$25.00 for a one time ‘trial-lesson’
-$100.00 for a 4 lesson block.