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Text Box: Of course you do! With such a wide range of music encompassed by the word “Rock”, chances are you are a Rock fan. There’s 50’s, Alternative, Brit, Classic, Detroit, Emo, Glam, Grunge, Hard, Heartland, Heavy Metal, Progressive, Punk, Psychedelic, Noir, Soft, Southern, Surf, and Symphonic...just to name a few. Imagine how much there is to know about Rock guitar—each style has its own set of skills and techniques that makes its characteristic sounds. Regardless of what your favorite types of rock sounds are or what your skill level

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Text Box: The studio contains many quality acoustic and electric guitars from Washburn, Ovation, Yamaha, Fender, and

Text Box: Gold Dust guitar studio is a great place for guitar and bass guitar instruction. Chords, Songs, Scales, Solos, and Special Techniques are some of the areas of expertise offered to the

Text Box: For more intermediate and advanced players, Improvisation, Theory, Composition, Songwriting, and Recording

Text Box: Not naming names here but, there are those who find rock crude, some who find blues boring, and others who don’t think jazz is cool. Can you believe it...I know! But no matter who you are you can relate to pop music. Pop music gives us those great melodies that shape our world. Whether your idea of pop is Sonny and Cher or Lily Allen, at some point in your life, the words and music of a pop song has moved you to laugh, cry, and remember important moments. At Gold Dust its easy to

Text Box: In 1927 Son House ‘got the idea’ to play from seeing another guy with ‘a thing on his finger like a small medicine bottle’, and said “I believe I want to play one of them things”. He bought a guitar that was busted in the back and needed a string, and an old bottle. The blues was the best thing he knew and he started rhyming words to guitar rhythms. By 1930 he became one of the most influential blues artists of his day. Even Robert Johnson played Son House songs! That’s how it is with the blues. No matter how tough life gets, there’s

Text Box: Way back at the dawn of civilization, folk music was born. It was always a way for people to connect, recreate, remember, and celebrate. The songs of musicians carried the history of the people, their triumphs, struggles, suffering, hopes, and fears. Their stories inspired us with heroes, and warned us against villainy. But most important folk music gave humans a sense of identity and unity with something greater than themselves. Today, folk festivals, hoe-downs, coffee houses, and open mics are all places that keep

Text Box: Is their anything cooler than jazz? Not in your wildest Arctic tundra dreams! Jazz is all about innovation. Jazz musicians can borrow influences and steal techniques from all musical genres, mix them together with their own special style and come up with a sound that is totally unique and instantly engaging. It has the widest range of possibilities of any musical genre because it is open, with very few limits. It requires that you pay attention to it, following where the music leads. And it can lead you many places; elation to sorrow; playful to sultry; thoughtful to carefree. A few gorgeous jazz chords strummed sweet and low on a

Text Box: Is that classical guitar staring at you from the corner, beckoning you to learn something exciting? Are you ignoring it because you just don’t want to struggle through another demanding piece, written in staff notation with all those tiny notes, time signatures, and intricate fingerings? Um hum. I know. But there is another way and its not just reading tablature. There are several things going on in the mind of a composer when they write music. Being able to notice and focus in

Text Box: Nobody ever spoke the language of the guitar more fluently than the Spanish, have they? Probably because of their great experience with guitars. In fact, the first guitars that resemble the guitars we play today came from Spain. Surfacing in written records from the 1200’s, they were called the guitarra moresca and the guitarra latina. Later, another Spaniard named Antonio de Torres built guitars in Seville in the 1850’s that were so superior to the rest, that two of Sevilles greatest players Julian Arcas, and Francisco Tarrega adopted them. With these great guitars the Latin influence spread and gave birth to grande musica such as Bachata, Bolero,

Text Box: An extensive music catalog and access to several online sources makes finding any song or piece easy. Specialized learning techniques such as ‘circular

Text Box: With 15 years experience helping people get more than they ever expected, Gold Dust offers quality and great prices.

Text Box: There are different price and schedule options help you pick the right program for you. Monthly specials for beginners are awesome!

Text Box: There are also several amplifiers from Fender and Marshall, along with an assortment of effects processing.

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Text Box: Specialized learning techniques such as ‘circular learning’ and ‘skill sets’ keep the lessons fresh. ‘Motivational mantras’ help you move from being a student to being and thinking like a player.