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Derek Schmidt

Derek Schmidt, Guitar coach in San Francisco
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Derek Schmidt, Guitar coach in San Francisco
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$57per lesson

Guitar 🎸 lessons with

Derek Schmidt

$57 per lesson
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Coach Rating
5.0•2 reviews
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Coach Rating
5.0•2 reviews

About your guitar coach

Derek is an experienced musician and sound designer with many years of music education experience. He holds a Master’s degree in Music and brings a strong academic and practical background to his teaching.

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Teaches: Not specified
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Levels: Beginners, Intermediates
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Lives in: San Francisco, California
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Years Playing: 22 years
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Given: 2 lessons

Derek's availability

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Derek's availability

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At your location

At your location

This coach can travel to you

Travels within 5 miles

Studio at Pacific Felt Factory

Free
2108.8 miles away

Availability on all locations

Near San Francisco, California

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Certifications & Badges

📝Music Degree

Specializations

🎸Jazz
🎸Pop
🎸Classical
🎸Electric
Beginner training plan
Your first lessonAt first I always ascertain how much music and instrument knowledge they have to gauge where to start. We discuss goals, areas of interest, and expectations and basic warm up exercises.
Lesson 2-3The 2ns and and 3rd are about further familiarization with warm up and dexterity/strength exercises. We definitely move forward w vbwggining exercises and simple songs with first chords.
Youth players
Working with kidsfalse
Working with teenagersfalse
What you need to bringStudents need their own guitar if at their place, but I have a set up for my studios.
What I can bringI can bring either an acoustic or electric guitar to travel, but no amp. I have guitars available at my home studio and at my artist studio.

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Average rating
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Terrance
“I’ve been wanting to continue my learning of ukulele and guitar. Derek is such a knowledgeable and patient teacher. I love how he breaks down the understanding of music theory and composition. I’ve had other guitar teachers that have taught me how to copy music tabs but Derek is really great in explaining the why of music!”
Veronica
“Derek is an amazing instructor. He has extensive knowledge of music theory and composition, and is an incredibly talented musician. He knows how to explain things in a way that makes it easy to understand. As a beginner, he has really demystified the process of learning music and helped me progress in my ukelele playing. He is very patient and can really bring you to where you want to be musically. I highly recommend him!”