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UNIVERSAL STRUMMING STUDIO
teaches serious intermediate guitarists who want to
approach advanced skills on guitar and advanced
players who want to further polish their abilities
in particular areas.
TRADITIONAL LESSON PLANS: USS offers
expert instruction and opportunities to perform can
be explored. Lesson plans are flexible depending on
the student's musical goals, but generally emphasize
reading skills, music theory, ear training,
improvisation and composition. I can work with any
method books, but always use self-created
supplements to customize lessons to student’s
abilities and interests.
READING SKILLS: from learning basics of standard notation and tablature to working with complex structures.
MUSIC THEORY: music is more effectively played when underlying structures of music are understood.
EAR TRAINING: works with identifying sounds heard such
as interval and chord qualities.
IMPROVISATION: usually in the form of duets with the teacher. Encourages getting in touch with one's creativity.
COMPOSITION: arranging and creating original
compositions.
ABOUT THE TEACHER: Jay Gordon is a
classical guitarist and composer. Though he has a
rock background and interest in Jazz, he's primarily
an acoustic player and uses right hand open hand
technique because it allows for independent musical
events on a single guitar. Nevertheless strumming
techniques are explored being a unique part of the
guitar. Different styles of music can be explored on
the instrument as solid musical skills facilitates
all styles of playing. He studied the Suzuki method
and uses some of its salient points in teaching.
Since earning a bachelors at the University of
Minnesota, he's been active as guitarist, composer,
teacher and concert producer. His music making has
an international profile having been performed in
Europe as well as North America.
More information at " The Music of Jay Gordon"
link above.
THE NAME: It was in the Baroque when
"guitar mania" first occured. In the court of Charles II, it is said, that in reference to a popular piece, "the whole guitarery were trying at it and God knows what a universal strumming there was."
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