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Welcome to the
American Guitar Institute
Thank you for visiting the American Guitar Institute website. The American Guitar Institute is a private teaching facility located in Bartlett, TN. We are currently offering private lessons for the guitar, bass and drums. Our teaching facility is located at 7990 Highway 64, at the intersection of Hwy 64 and Germantown Parkway. We are in the same building as Guitar Center, right behind TCBY.
Whether you are a complete beginner or an advanced musician, there is something here for you. For beginner players, we can guide you through the entire learning process and take you as far as you want to go. Whether you want to be able to teach yourself some of your favorite songs, write your own songs, or become a working professional in the industry, we can take you from knowing nothing at all, to knowing everything you've ever wanted to know, and more. We give you the confidence that you are learning everything you need to know in an easy to understand way, and that you will learn everything you need to know in an effective order.If you are an intermediate player, we can help you fill in all of those missing pieces, help you feel more confident in the knowledge and skill you already have and help you to advance to the next level of playing. And for advanced players, we can help refine your advanced techniques or theories you may be struggling with and give you some new ideas if you are feeling stale. For the self taught, we can go back and fill in the blanks that most self taught players end up with, giving you the names to the concepts you may have already picked up, make sure that your technique has developed properly, and then help you progress further. And for those of you who have had a bad experience with a previous music instructor, let us reassure you that not all of us are bad and just taking your money. We'll get you or your child back on track.
Our teaching method is very straightforward. First and foremost we do not just blatantly teach songs and nothing else. The foundation of our lessons is teaching the student how to learn songs for themselves, which means we don't have to teach songs, our students are equipped to learn songs themselves. We guide them through the chords, scales, and techniques that they will need to learn songs, develop reading and analyzation skills required to learn the even the most complicated songs easily, the best resources to find the music for songs on their own, and the tools to make sure the songs that they learn are accurate, and if not, how to fix them. And when we do work on songs in the lesson, it is to teach specific things, such as a new technique, understanding chord progressions, solos, song structure or composition, analyzation and memorization, and these songs are chosen most often by the student and not the teacher. We work on advancing the students knowledge of music and technique so that eventually even the hardest songs become easy. Through our approach to learning the instrument and how to play songs, the student also becomes naturally equipped to start writing their own songs. And that's only the beginning.
Our teaching method moves with the student. Lessons are custom tailored to the individual. We can spend as much or as little time as necessary on any given topic, and work on things in the order that best fits the goals and capabilities of any given student. Everyone is different, and everyone is human. That's what makes music great, it is all different, but on a fundamental level it is all the same, it comes from the same place and has the same foundation. This is something that has developed our method into what it is today in two major ways. First, if there is a style of music that you hate, we won't work on it, because everyone is different. Second, as your lessons progress and you completely change styles that you like, for example if you loved blues but now you want to play metal, no problem. Nothing you learned so far is a waste because fundamentally all music is the same, the content doesn't change, just the context.
Over the years the American Guitar Institute has been blessed with a wide variety of students that have all gone off to find their own place in music. And regardless of that place we are proud of them all. Most of them have obtained the skills to learn their favorite songs and play them for and with family and friends. Some of them have had higher goals, and we were honored to help them obtain those goals, from being on Mtv and being played on the radio, going to music school, obtaining recording contracts, gigging in Memphis, across the country and around the world, writing and producing their own albums, and becoming teachers themselves. Regardless of your goals, we can help you get there. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes hard, but it's always fun and always rewarding.
I'd like to thank all of the students that have made the American Guitar Institute what it is, those that have been, those that are and those that will be. It's always interesting and always fun. So for all of you that are about to join us, on behalf of the American Guitar Institute staff and students, welcome to our family.
We hope you enjoy our site and we look forward to hearing from you when you are ready to sign up for lessons.
Interested in taking lessons?
If you are in the Memphis, Tennessee area and are interested in learning from the American Guitar Institute™, please visit Lesson Info for information about signing up and receiving a free half hour lesson! Whether you live here, visit here regularly, or drive through every once in a while, we can work with you. If you are in the area and want to get some serious instruction, just give us a call!
Want to hear us play?
Songs performed by our instructors are available on the internet, both as streaming audio on mySpace pages, and as downloads for your iPod! For info on how to find these songs, click here!
Contact Us
If you have any questions about us or would like to sign up for guitar, bass or drum lessons, please give us a call at: (901) 685-0545
Site Map
And for those of us that like to just get to the point..... Site Map
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