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Guitar Lessons

 

Backbeat offers guitar lessons, including bass, ukulele, and electric guitar, in Portland to all ages and skill levels. Our guitar teachers follow student’s interests to teach them the key skills they need to play what they want. If you want to explore your interests in guitar, Backbeat is the place for you.

In our guitar lessons, you will learn…

  • Guitar Technique: In addition to teaching guitar chords and melodies, we teach guitar students proper posture, movement fundamentals, and techniques required to play.
  • Musical Insight: Students will learn how music is crafted, what’s happening in music they listen to, and how their instrument works. Understanding how music works will not only help them learn faster, but will also facilitate music creation, improvisation and understanding how to play in a group.
  • Music Reading: Playing music is easier when you know what to play (shocker). And reading music notation is a key part of that. Reading music is also critical to defusing the confusion and intimidation of learning to play music.
  • Learning Skills: Great learners make great musicians. Our teaching method includes teaching our students the same teaching techniques that our teachers use. This way, the student begins to learn how to best improve using the techniques themselves.
  • How to Play with Others: Music is shared. In order to play music, a musician must tune into both fellow band members and the audience. We teach students to play their part while listening to those around them.
  • Performance Skills: Nearly everyone has some level of performance anxiety. We give our students tips and tricks on how to handle performance anxiety and how to direct their attention in ways that aid their performance.

Who Is The Ideal Student

Our staff is great at teaching everyone, from those who have never picked up a guitar to seasoned pros looking to refine their technique. In short, it doesn’t matter what your ability level is because here at Backbeat Music Academy we have got something to offer all levels of ability.

 

 

Our Philosophy

A growth mindset is more important to a musician than hands. We know through extensive experience that playing music with other people –either in recitals or with bands– gives students the highest levels of enjoyment.  It also gives a real sense of accomplishment. This is essential for self-motivation when learning how to play. In addition to focusing on the individual instrument of your choice, we also focus on performances.

Music Is Fun. Rule number one in our lessons is that music is fun. Why? Three big reasons. First, music itself is fun and if you aren’t having fun while playing music, then you’re doing it wrong. We don’t want our students to develop bad habits, so we make sure that all our students remain musical – and that means having fun.
Second, great learners make great musicians. in order to get to where they want to go, our students need to have good learning technique so they can learn faster. The brain learns best while playing, so if the student is having fun, then they are able to learn faster. Third, happy students are motivated students.

Third, the biggest problem with music lessons isn’t talent, and it isn’t motivation. The biggest problem in music lessons is intimidation. If a student feels inwardly that they won’t be able to succeed (research says this is the rule, not the exception), then they won’t be in a state of mind where they can learn fast. By making sure the student is having fun while knocking out critical skills, we level up our student to the point where they start to understand music and feel like it is something they could do.

Music is meant to be shared. Taking private lessons and never playing music with others is like dribbling a soccer ball around your house but never playing in a game. It misses the point of music, which is connection. This is the heart of music and the source for most of the real fulfillment in music-making.

People do what they think will work. The effectiveness of your choices depends on the accuracy of your assumptions. We teach this to our students because it empowers them with the single most effective way to improve their performance. Each action is a choice, and the best way to change your action is to change your choices. The best way to change your choices is to change the assumptions those choices were based on.
Our teachers use this insight to observe why a student is making a mistake, backtracking their choices to figure out the student’s assumptions. This allows the teacher to direct the student to the most effective way to improve, short-circuiting wasted practice time and much frustration. Afterall, music is meant to be fun.

 

Prices for Guitar Lessons in Portland, OR

Backbeat Music offers an easy flat-rate packages for voice lessons. Lessons are scheduled per month, so you get 4 or 5 lessons. We also offer unlimited rescheduling. Makeup lessons can be used on any instrument with any teacher. 

Calendar Month of 1x/week 30 Minute Lessons: 159/month (4-5 lessons per month)
Calendar Month of 1x/week 45 Minute Lessons: 219/month
Calendar Month of 1x/week 60 Minute Lessons: 299/month

What You Should Do Next

Simply call/text us at (503) 290-5090 or click the button below to schedule a free trial lesson.

Click Here to Schedule Your Free Trial Guitar Lesson 

 

Guitar Lesson Prices

Backbeat Music offers an easy flat-rate packages for guitar lessons. Monthly Packages consist of one lessons per week, or 4-5 lessons per month. We also offer unlimited rescheduling. Makeup lessons can be used on any instrument with any teacher.

A calendar month of 30 Minute Lessons: $159/month

A calendar month of 30 Minute Lessons: $259/month 

A calendar month of 60 Minute Group Lessons: $125/month

30 Minute Lesson: $45/session

60 Minute Lesson: $79/session