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Michael Fogler: For Students

Teaching Philosophy

  • Solid grounding in music reading and basic musical literacy.
  • Basic musicianship: good tone quality, phrasing, and how to make the music "sing."
  • Technique that makes playing easier and produces more gratifying results!
  • Having fun!

Basic Scales for the Guitarist

This is a pdf file with single position scales and shifting position scales.

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Practicing Tips

20 principles and ideas to guide you along the way.

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Rules for conquering performance anxiety

These are from guitarist and composer David Leisner.  They've helped me tremendously.

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Private Lesson Policies

This is a pdf file which explains my payment and attendance policies.

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Applied Guitar Syllabus for Georgetown College

MusicTheory.net

A great website to learn music theory. There is even a place to study the guitar fingerboard.

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