FAQ

Questions, answered plainly.

$75 an hour, in your home or on Zoom. Production and songwriting run at the same rate. The whole grid is on the rates page.

I publish the whole market, verified: what music lessons cost in Denver, plus comparisons of Guitar Center, School of Rock, and learning from an app. Where they're the better fit, the pages say so.

Start on the booking page. Pick your lesson, we lock a time, and you pay after the lesson.

Then it's free. That's the whole guarantee: if the first lesson isn't a fit, you don't pay for it.

Give me 24 hours' notice and there's nothing to pay.

I come to you in the Denver metro, or we meet online. You pick when we set the slot.

No. Adults starting from zero and adults coming back after twenty years away are exactly who these lessons are built for. If you've started and quit before, you're my favorite kind of student. The adults page is for you.

No, and I won't make you learn. I teach chord charts and ear, not sight-reading. You'll learn to hear what's going on in a song and play along with it.

The answer depends on your song and your hands, and I'll give it to you at the first lesson. The promise either way is significant improvement in playing, enjoying, and understanding music, from chord charts and by ear, and feeling great about it.

Talk to me before you buy anything. I'll help you find the right instrument for your budget without overspending.

Your instrument and any room with a seat. If street parking is tricky on your block, tell me where to park. Nothing else is required of the house. Whatever I need to bring, we sort in the first conversation.

Nothing to prepare in advance. We sort your setup in the first conversation.

No. Lessons are for adults.

Lessons here already run the way an ADHD student needs them to: interest first, movement, ear before paper, no minute quotas, no shame about a blank week. There's a whole page on it, for adults and for parents.

Yes, from the inside. I gig jazz on bass around Denver, duo to quartet. And the theory I teach is plain music theory: jazz is one palette of colors, and so are pop, rock, flamenco, and R&B. We use whichever palette your music is painted with.

There are weekly jams in Denver, and I'm a known player at them. When you're ready, that's a destination we can aim lessons at: I teach you the tune you'll call ahead of time, walk you through the signup list, introduce you around, and I'll be there. Check individual jams for venue age restrictions. Which jam and which night is a conversation we have person to person. If you want to look around first, the jams directory lists the nights running now.

Logic Pro: the basics, tracking out a song, and the producer-level understanding of how instruments sit together in a mix. In person or over screen share. Details here.

Yes: writing, lyrics, editing, functional harmony, performance, and recording a demo in Logic. It has its own page.

Something else? Ask directly.