Hello, My name is Randall Ward and I teach electric and acoustic guitar. Musical styles include blues, rock, jazz, slide guitar and fingerstyle. I’ve been teaching guitar for over 25 years. Lessons will generally include: -Learning underlying techniques that promote good playing habits such as hand and wrist position, strumming and picking tendencies, fingerstyle, standard and hybrid picking. -Learning songs in a musical style that’s appealing, will advance playing technique and is at an appropriate skill level for the student. -When appropriate, music theory and applying it to guitar. For example, understanding chord symbols and chord const

Having taught art for twenty years, I have a big bag of art teaching tricks. I am certified to teach art in Texas and taught for years in Austin ISD. I prefer to teach more generalized art lessons that cover a variety of projects and media as opposed to in depth drawing or painting. I am well suited to provide online art home school instruction. As a teaching artist I currently teach Art School at The Contemporary in Austin and facilitate art projects for seniors for the non profit, Mobile Art. The song writing lessons are more like coaching. I will guide you through the writing lyrics for verses, chorus and bridge and help you come up with h...

I started out learning scales, chords, and songs on guitar like any other musician but it really became more than that for me. It became an outlet and helped fuel creativity in all other aspects of my life. That's what I strive to pass on to my students.