Experienced tutor in Guitar in Oakland, Laura offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

My son has been taking lessons with Laura for about 4 years now and my daughter for about 3 years. Both kids have grown so much as guitar players and Laura is wonderful to work with!

We really value her knowledge/skills as a musician, but more importantly, we appreciate how she tries to get to know our kids (both as people and musicians). She starts every lesson asking them how things are going and always sounds genuinely interested and excited in their reports. She also seems to provide great balance in her instruction - classical pieces, songs that the kids want to learn (e.g., my son learned Blackbird a couple years ago), scales, improv, etc.

My son is now in the jazz band at his middle school, and even though this is not her area of expertise, she's picking it up and trying to find ways to support him on his jazz journey. I think that's amazing!

Laura also pushes and challenges the kids in really great ways that help them grow as musicians. But she does so in gentle, age appropriate ways. In fact, when I asked both kids what they like about working with Laura, the first thing they both said was, "She's really nice."