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I'm currently teaching in the western 'burbs of Chicago. As far as lessons go, I teach what my student wants to learn (and for young, beginner students, the things that student's parents would like for them to learn as well - note reading, etc..). I don't teach what I think they should learn. Oh sure, once I get to know where they want to go, I can offer tons o' stuff that I know will help him/her get to where they want to go - but first and foremost, I want my students to enjoy their lessons so much that they actually look forward to going! :) The lessons are comfortable, laid-back, and I only move at the student's pace. Not that it's so comfortable that we never get anything done, but that it's first and foremost a relaxing environment. If it's not, it'll feel like going to school - and we don't want that, do we? And, even though we do things at the student's pace, I'll be there to coach (and maybe prod a little bit) as much motivation and progress out of my students as I can. I normally accept students from high-school-aged and up, but if a younger student is ready, willing, and hungry to learn, I'm there. I teach most everything in the guitar-lesson categories: beginner guitar, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, finger-picking, learning songs, etc... and pretty much most styles like rock, pop, blues, classic rock, hard rock, heavy metal, funk, and even a little bit of beginner jazz. You're paying me to show you what you want to learn, so just let me know what you want to work on! :) As far as Scheduling is concerned, I'm fairly open to almost anything. Most students do a half-hour every week. But, if you would like to do an hour each week or every other week, that's cool too, of course; again, whatever is comfortable for you.
Payments and Cancellations: *Cash or check payments are fine. *I ask that payment is made for the month in advance. *Any lessons that are cancelled or missed (a.k.a. "no-show") need to be made up before the following week's lesson, otherwise the missed lesson's payment is forfeited. *Any lesson that I need to cancel can either be made up before the following lesson, or can just be credited to the following month's payment.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by email: If you would prefer to talk via phone, drop me an email and I'll send you my cell number.
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The List of some of the most famous guitar riffs, hooks, songs, etc, ever compiled! ;) Over the decades I've been teaching (and for as long as I've been learning the guitar), I've ALWAYS found that learning your favorite guitar licks and songs can not only be cool so that you can play those things for the sheer fun of them, but in almost every example, you can learn education things as well that you'll be able to use in your growth on the guitar to make new songs easier and faster to learn, plus give you things you can use in your own guitar riff/song writing. Well, recently I thought I'd find a list like this to print out and share with my students for ideas on things (songs) to work on. But then I found that a LOT of the lists out there simply suck. BIG time. In fact, in Rolling Stones "Greatest Guitar Riffs of All Time" list, "Smoke on the Water" did not even MAKE the list. Seriously? Ugh. Anyway, I compiled the list below from some of the better lists out there, weeded out the no-I-don't-think-so tunes, added a lot of suggestions from friends and students, and then pulled from the years of writing out great guitar licks and riffs for students. If you think something is missing that should be on the list, PLEASE email me! I want this list to grow as much as possible. Now, I may get flooded with suggestions, so if I don't email you back directly, please don't take offense. Also, if you send a song and I don't add it, it is NOT my way of saying that your suggestion shouldn't make the list because it's not a great song and/or riff, but that it may just not be thought of as one of the greatest all-time and/or most famous that the majority might know. My email is: Dave@DaveTheGuitarPlayer.com And now.....The List... Some of the Most-Famous, Fun-To-Play, Most-Requested, Educational, etc…. GUITAR RIFFS OF ALLLLLLL TI-EEE-MMM!!… (All Time) In alphabetical order. And if you don’t see something listed individually, check in the “band/artist groupings” (since many bands/artists have multiple “most-famous riffs” to their credit, any with three songs or more have their own section). Also, these aren’t just single-note guitar hooks and/or licks that are only a bar or two long. These cover larger pieces as well. Fingerstyle, rhythm guitar, etc.
Aqualung - Jethro Tull All Right Now - Free Always With Me, Always With You - Joe Satriani American Woman - The Guess Who Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood Bang a Gong - T. Rex / The Power Station Barracuda - Heart Beat It - Michael Jackson Black Magic Woman - Santana Black or White - Michael Jackson Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf Boys Are Back In Town, The - Thin Lizzy Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent Crazy On You - Heart Cult Of Personality - Living Colour Do Ya - ELO Dust In The Wind - Kansas Dr. Feel good - Motley Crue Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group Free Ride - Edgar Winter Group From The Beginning - Emerson, Lake, & Palmer Give A Little Bit - Supertramp Heat of the Moment - Asia Holy Diver - Dio House of the Rising Sun - The Animals Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog I Love Rock & Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly Jessica - Allman Brothers Band Jessie’s Girl - Rick Springfield Just a Girl -No Doubt “King of the Hill” (T.V. show theme) La Bamba - Richie Valens / Los Lobos Lights - Journey Livin’ on a Prayer - Bon Jovi Machine Head - Bush Man in the Box - Alice In Chains Money For Nothing - Dire Straits Mr. Brightside - The Killers My Girl - The Temptations My Sharona - The Knack No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Copper Miserlou - Dick Dale No One Like You - The Scorpions Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison Ohio - CSNY Only a Memory - The Smithereens Raining Blood - Slayer Ramblin’ Man - Allman Brothers Rebel Rebel - David Bowie Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer Rock You Like A Hurricane - The Scorpions Round & Round - Ratt Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes She’s A Beauty - The Tubes Should I Stay or Should I Go? - The Clash Since You’ve Been Gone - Rainbow Slide - Goo Goo Dolls Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple Space Oddity - David Bowie Stranglehold - Ted Nugent Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran Talk Dirty To Me - Poison Time For Me To Fly - R.E.O. Speedwagon Trooper, The - Iron Maiden Unskinny Bop - Poison Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi We Got The Beat - The GoGos Wild Thing - The Troggs Wipeout - The Surfaris Woman From Tokyo - Deep Purple
311 All Mixed Up Amber Beautiful Disaster Down
Aerosmith Back In The Saddle Again Sweet Emotion Walk This Way
AC/DC Back In Black Big Balls Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap For Those About To Rock We Salute You Hells Bells Highway to Hell Thunderstruck T.N.T. Who Made Who You Shook Me All Night Long
Bachman Turner Overdrive (B.T.O. ) Hey You Let It Ride Roll On Down The Highway Taking Care of Business You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Beatles, The A Hard Day’s Night Across The Universe Blackbird Come Together Day Tripper Dear Prudence Eight Days A Week Getting Better Help! Helter Skelter Here Comes The Sun I Feel Fine I Want To Hold Your Hand In My Life Norwegian Wood Octopus’ Garden Paperback Writer Revolution Rock and Roll Music Twist and Shout While My Guitar Gently Weeps Yesterday
Berry, Chuck Johnny B. Goode Maybellene Reelin’ & Rockin’ Rock & Roll Music Roll Over Beethoven School Day Sweet Little Sixteen
Black Sabbath Iron Man Paranoid War Pigs
Blue Oyster Cult Burnin’ for You Don’t Fear the Reaper Godzilla
Boston Amanda Foreplay/Long Time More Than A Feeling Peace of Mind Rock & Roll Band Smokin’
Cars, The Good Times Roll Just What I Needed Let’s Go Magic Moving In Stereo My Best Friend’s Girl You Might Think
Cheap Trick Dream Police Flame, The I Want You To Want Me She’s Tight
Clapton, Eric Cocaine Forever Man Lay Down Sally Layla
Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) Bad Moon Rising Down On The Corner Fortunate Son I Heard It Through The Grapevine Proud Mary Lookin’ Out My Back Door Susie Q Up Around the Bend Who’ll Stop the Rain?
Cream Badge Crossroads Sunshine of Your Love White Room
Def Leppard Armageddon It Bringin’ on the Heartbreak Foolin’ Photograph Pour Some Sugar On Me Rock of Ages
Doobie Brothers Black Water China Grove Listen To The Music Long Train Runnin’
Doors, The Love Me Two Times Peace Frog Roadhouse Blues
Eagles, The Already Gone Heartache Tonight Hotel California In The City Life In The Fast Lane Long Run, The Take It Easy
Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way Landslide Rhiannon
Foo Fighters All My Life Everlong Learn To Fly Monkey Wrench
Green Day Basket Case Brain Stew Longview Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance) Wake Me Up When September Ends When I Come Around
Guns & Roses Paradise City Sweet Child o’ Mine Welcome to the Jungle
Hendrix, Jimi All Along The Watchtower Fire Foxy Lady Hey Joe Little Wing Purple Haze Voodoo Child Wind Cries Mary, The
Iron Maiden Number of the Beast Run to the Hills Trooper, The
Judas Priest Breaking The Law Living After Midnight You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
Kinks, The All Day and All of the Night Lola You Really Got Me
Led Zepplin Black Dog Dancing Days Heartbreaker Kashmir Immigrant Song Moby Dick Over The Hills and Far Away Rock and Roll Stairway to Heaven Whole Lotta Love
Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimmie Three Steps Freebird Sweet Home Alabama
Metallica Enter Sandman Master of Puppets One Sad But True Unforgiven, The
Night Ranger Don’t Tell Me You Love Me When You Close Your Eyes You Can Still Rock In America
Nirvana All Apologies Come As You Are Heart Shaped Box In Bloom Lithium Smells Like Teen Spirit
Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon Crazy Train I Don’t Know Mama I’m Coming Home Mr. Crowley No More Tears
Pantera Cemetary Gates Cowboys from Hell Floods Walk
Pearl Jam Alive Better Man Daughter Even Flow Jeremy
Petty, Tom (and the Heartbreakers) American Girl Breakdown Free Fallin’ Here Comes My Girl Mary Jane’s Last Dance Refugee Runnin’ Down a Dream Waiting, The
Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall Brain Damage/Eclipse Goodbye Blue Sky Have a Cigar In The Flesh Money Wish You Were Here Young Lust
Police, The De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Don’t Stand So Close To Me Message In A Bottle Roxanne Walking On The Moon
Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Crazy Little Thing Called Love Tie Your Mother Down We Will Rock You
Rage Against The Machine Bombtrack Bulls On Parade Guerilla Radio People of the Sun Renegades of Funk Sleep Now In The Fire Testify
Red Hot Chili Peppers Around The World Give It Away Otherside Scar Tissue Under The Bridge
Rolling Stones, The Brown Sugar (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction Jumpin’ Jack Flash Shattered Start Me Up Waiting On A Friend
Rush Closer to the Heart Fly By Night Limelight Spirit of Radio, The Tom Sawyer Working Man YYZ
Smashing Pumpkins 1979 Bullet With Butterfly Wings Today Zero
Soundgarden Black Hole Sun Fell On Black Days My Wave Outshined Rusty Cage Spoonman
Springsteen, Bruce Born To Run Glory Days Rosalita Tool Aenima Lateralus Prison Sex Schism Sober Stinkfist
U2 Angel of Harlem Bad Beautiful Day Desire I Will Follow New Year’s Day One Pride (In The Name of Love) Sunday Bloody Sunday Vertigo Where The Streets Have No Name
Vaughn, Stevie Ray Couldn’t Stand The Weather Crossfire Life by the Drop Pride and Joy Scuttle Buttin’ Tightrope
Van Halen Ain’t Talkin’ ‘bout Love Eruption Hot For Teacher Oh, Pretty Woman Panama Runnin’ With the Devil You Really Got Me Unchained
Walsh, Joe Funk 49 Life’s Been Good Rocky Mountain Way Walk Away
Weezer Buddy Holly El Scorcho Hash Pipe Island in the Sun My Name is Jonas Pork and Beans Undone - The Sweater Song
Who, The Behind Blue Eyes Happy Jack I Can’t Explain Magic Bus My Generation Pinball Wizard Squeeze Box Substitute Tommy, Can You Hear Me?
Yes Owner of a Lonely Heart I’ve Seen All Good People Roundabout
Young, Neil Cinnamon Girl Heart of Gold Old Man Rockin’ in the Free World
ZZ Top Cheap Sunglasses Gimmie All Your Lovin’ La Grange Legs Sharp Dressed Man Tush (315 as of 7-6-2011)
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