Finding Your Guitar Goals
What are your musical goals when it comes to learning and playing guitar?
Maybe you’ve never played an instrument before and want to learn for fun. Perhaps you’ve been playing guitar for years and have encountered obstacles and barriers to understanding music theory. This has prevented you from putting the pieces together to produce the improvements necessary for your growth as a guitarist.
The David Joel Guitar Studio
We help students build and increase their musical skills by teaching them fundamentals. This creates excellent musicianship, both in understanding (theory) and in practical application (through playing an instrument). When these two areas are balanced and any misunderstandings are cleared up using a methodical approach. An individual learns to play well with good technique and confidence. The student achieves the goals that he or she came for guitar lessons in the first place.
David’s Background
Philadelphia born and respected favorite, David Joel, began playing guitar at 9 years old. Growing up playing in rock bands in the early 1980s, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Boston, MA from Berklee College of Music. He obtained a master’s degree from New England Conservatory (Boston) and followed up with a stint for several years as an instructor at Berklee. His musical travels have included Japan, Europe, and throughout Boston and Washington DC areas.
David Joel enjoys a sweeping scope of musical experience as a performer, including 43 years of playing, composing, and over 30 years as an instructor. David had yielded a large and diverse range of abilities to express, create, entertain, and educate in a wide breadth of aesthetic musical styles.
As a solo guitarist, Director/Composer of The David Joel Quartet, a contemporary jazz-fusion group, and with various jazz and high society ensembles, David performs regularly throughout the tri-state area. A Philadelphia resident, he is the proprietor of the David Joel Guitar Studio. He offers lessons to students of all ages and in all styles.
David has been teaching since 1985. He’s had the good fortune of getting to know over a thousand individuals as students. He helps people find their own musical voice and goals and helps them create using the medium of sound.
David’s Teaching Philosophy
Assist and help and individual learn and have fun while creating their own musical reality through the study, practice, and playing of music. He employs basics such as reading, technique, learning songs, solos, theory, improvisation, composition/song writing, ear training, and many other mediums. He works in numerous musical genres to give students as broad of a range and understanding of music. His students are given the capability to flourish.
Everyone can create; this is innate in all of us. David’s goal is to connect and create a relationship and passion fro learning and playing guitar. Through the education of musical basic and fundamentals, his students learn to express themselves and experience the joy of playing the guitar and creating music.
If you already know your musical goals or need help discovering the, visit the David Joel Guitar Studio and get started on lessons to help take you farther than you imagined.