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My name is Steve Delgado, and I teach guitar in the Seattle area.  I've got my favorite styles (funk, jazzy rock, and rockin' jazz) and I'll help you with whatever your own style happens to be (everything from metal to country).  I give lessons at all levels -- from absolute beginner on up -- concentrating on guitar technique as well as theory and notation should you want to learn them (I attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachussetts from 1974 to 1977, and am well-versed in the hard stuff).

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Me and My Guitars...

In addition to years (and years...) of teaching experience, I can say (with all due modesty of course) that I've pretty well mastered my instrument.  You're hearing my playing now (if your computer's speakers are hooked up), and on the player I play through a range of styles, from heavy blues on...  (And don't worry!  I start my beginners on much easier material...I didn't start out playing this way either!)

I play the leads on an Axon AX 100 guitar synth and the rhythm parts on my Tom Anderson Hollow-T Classic.  The keyboard bass is me as well, over ACID drum loops.  I also play a Godin LGXT and a Fender Eric Johnson Stratocaster.

Teaching Approach

Getting back to lessons, a lot of how they'd be structured is up to you: If you want to learn to read music, we can go that route; on the other hand, if you just want to learn hot licks, scales, chords, theory, etc., that's fine too.  One approach that works for a lot of students is to bring a CD of a tune or lick(s) that you want to learn.  I have excellent ears and can pick up what you want to learn (usually!) and teach it to you during the lesson.

What's the Bottom Line?                

The lessons are at my place in Renton, $40 an hour.  The first lesson requires no commitment...you're welcome to come by and check things out...sit down and see how it goes.   If you choose to continue, payment is prepaid monthly.

Given that lessons are weekly (same day same time each week) there are usually four per month. But some months will have five lesson-days, and in that case the fifth lesson is free (or alternatively, it would be used as a make-up lesson if you'd missed one during that month).

Getting in Touch

Please feel free to get in touch with questions about lessons... you can call me at (425) 254-0437, or e-mail me at --

If you'd like to know something more about who I am and how I got here, then please click here.

Testimonials


Seattle Guitar Notes
A Guitar "Blog" ("Glog?")
(you might want to shut off my music in the player above if you'd like to check out the guitar/guitarist videos below)

Guitar Lessons Seattle: Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

The Headhunter himself -- Herbie Hancock -- goes afield for the lead guitar player in this clip...it's Lionel Louke, from Benin, Africa.  And the rhythm guitar player -- the dude with the hat -- could be said to be the man who REALLY put the rhythm into rhythm guitar playing.  That is none other than Melvin Ragin -- better known as Wah Wat Watson -- Headhunter and one of the world's premier studio guitar players.

 


Guitar Lessons Seattle: Friday, July 13th, 2007

But then going afield again, here's another "guitar globalization" clip featuring a couple of guitar players who you won't find on MTV, but who are top dogs in their neck of the woods (Bahia, Brazil) and in their style (chula and samba-de-roda).  This was just a lazy Sunday afternoon in Roberto Mendes's house (for afficionados of Brazilian music, Roberto Mendes writes a lot for Maria Bethânia...the second-best selling female Brazilian singer of all time).  Maria was raised around the corner and down the street from where this "video" was shot.


A unique guitar style: Chula in Santo Amaro, Bahia

That small ukelele-like instrument is called a "cavaquinho".


Guitar Lessons Seattle: Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Of course one doesn't need to go as far afield as Brazil to find great contemporary guitar players.  I mention my Eric Johnson Strat above.  Here's a clip of Eric and his axe at the Bottom Line in New York City...

 


Guitar Lessons Seattle: Monday, July 9th, 2007

Keeping in mind the globalization of guitar-playing and the far reaches of this instrument's sounds, here is an interesting clip featuring a young jazz guitarist from Brazil.  This is our friend Jurandir Santana, raised on American jazz standards, but here playing a very Afro-Bahian style of music (a song by another friend of ours, Roberto Mendes) on an instrument common to this style of music, a viola de dez (consisting of five double sets of strings).

You can catch Jurandir in Europe this August and September!  More on Jurandir Santana and Roberto Mendes on this page!


Guitar Lessons Seattle: Monday, June 18th, 2007

If you live around here you probably already know, but just in case you don't I'll tell you: Seattle, Washington has a favorite son, and that is none other than soulful rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix: Seattle Guitar Giant)!


Jimi's remains in Renton, while his spirit continues to soar...


Guitar Lessons Seattle: Sunday, June 17th, 2007

With respect to my own life and its division into living places, the second of those places (Indianapolis) has an amazing son and that is none other than jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery (Wes Montgomery: Guitar Wizard).

 

Here's Wes getting down in Hamburg, in 1965.  Notice that right hand...Wes invented his own style!


Guitar Lessons Seattle: Friday, June 15th, 2007

Havana, where I was born and a place the music of which took a jump into the American public consciousness because of the film Buena Vista Social Club, is home to a marvelous guitarist, Leo Brouwer (Leo Brouer: Cuban Classical Guitar).

Here's Leo Brouer's Un dia de Noviembre as performed by Russian guitarist Dmitri Illarionov...

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