Toby Walker Guitar Lessons

My teaching approach:

I'll teach you at your level, at your speed and what you want! These lessons are personalized to meet your goals. I use tab and record a CD for you. Teaching Credits: Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch Happy Traum's Homespun DVD Woody Mann's Acoustic Sessions Carnegie Hall's 'American Roots Music' and numerous workshops in the U.S. and the U.K. From a satisfied student: "Toby and I share a love of fingerstyle acoustic blues. His tabs and recorded examples are important in learning the tunes. It's great to have a teacher with such a wide repertoire and helpful insights into the music." Mike, M

My influences are:

Pretty much anyone who made either acoustic or electric blues and country roots guitar music popular. Blind Lemon Jefferson, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Reverend Gary Davis, Jorma Kaukonen, Buddy Guy, David Bromberg, Blind Willie Johnson, John Mooney, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Hubert Sumlin, Son House, Blind Willie McTell,

My guitar lessons take place in:

The teacher's studio

Guitar lessons typically take place on these days and hours:

Monday - Thursday. Evenings and some daytime hours. Every other week.

Guitar Techniques:

Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, Open tuning, Fingerstyle, Slide Guitar, Performance, Improvisation, Jamming Skills, Music Theory, Scales and Exercises

Your first guitar lesson with me might include the following:

Before a student comes in for their lesson I'll ask them to give me a brief description of where they're at and where they want to go. From there I'll map out a direction and off we go. The lessons are VERY personalized and versatile depending on how the student progresses.

A guitar lesson with me might entail the following:

matter where I am someone usually asks me 'Gee, how did you do that?' That's when I get all giddy and grab the nearest guitar to show them a cool lick. Next to performing, teaching is another one of my great passions. Nothing thrills me more than seeing the 'light switch go on' when I turn a student on to a new lick, song, or way of understanding something. The late Eugene Powell, a fantastic bluesman from Mississippi once told me to 'carry the blues on for him' and I mean to do just that. He was very generous in teaching me and I feel honored to d

The qualities I look for in an ideal guitar student might include the following:

All I ask is that the student does the best they can with the materials. I'm not looking for perfection. If they give it their all then I'm a happy camper.