Ellen Whitaker Guitar Studio

Ellen has developed both her guitar program and her ukulele program through many years of experience doing exactly what she loves to do - teaching.

A teacher's experience is important. Ellen has decades of experience teaching. And when you find a someone who teaches for the precise reason that she loves to teach - as Ellen does - it will contribute significantly to your level of enjoyment as you learn. It will also increase the rate at which you acquire your skills.

Ellen's method is progressive and well-organized, with enough flexibility that the individual strengths and challenges, tastes and specific goals of each student can be taken into account as they learn the technique required to become a well-rounded independent musician.

Ellen makes the process of learning to read music feel completely natural and enjoyable.

Ellen offers individual guitar lessons and ukulele lessons in Durham, North Carolina. Location is convenient also to Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough. She incorporates instruction in music theory to the extent the student is interested.

All ages and all levels welcome.

Styles include classical, fingerstyle, blues, pop, ragtime, celtic and other folk traditions, with an emphasis on fingerstyle technique on both the guitar and the ukulele.

In addition to teaching, Ellen spends much of her time arranging music for ukulele and guitar. Her books of arrangements can be previewed at her website.