Guitar Lessons for Grade School, High School & Adult Beginners

• Have FUN And Get Results FAST With A Revolutionary Music Program

• Gain The Skills To Play Your Favorite Songs

• Get out of the rut you've been in and train in new musical categories every week

• Learn The Basics And Proper Playing Technique

• Be A Star At Your School's Talent Show

• YOU Can be the musical Inspiration for Your Children By Playing Guitar To Them

• Jam With Others And Stop Playing Anxiety

• Perform Live (When You're Ready) And Take The Next Step To Fulfilling A Dream

• Record Music In A Professional Studio

• Make Music Videos And Be A YouTube Sensation

• Meet Other Students And Make Music Friends

• Create New Memories You'll Remember FOREVER!!

Why Should Beginners, Intermediate And Advanced Players Take Lessons From A Guitar Teacher With 27 Years Experience Like Mike Walsh?

*You'll Have Fun And Look Forwards To Playing Guitar For The Rest Of Your Life!

I've spent decades helping students get results on guitar by mixing in a ton of fun activities like shows, videos, recording sessions and band jams with a positive attitude to help you enjoy the guitar like I do. When you get to do things like your favorite players it sure does make playing/learning guitar/bass way more fun and you’ll stick with it and play FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!

* You’ll Follow A Proven Path To Success That Will Lead YOU To Real Results!!

I have a GIANT database (thousands of documents/files) of lessons I’VE CREATED over the many years that clearly state and visually show you how or what you’re musically going to play. I’m NOT WINGING the lessons here as ALL my lessons are clearly thought out, planned and take you through steps 1-2-3 etc. I’ve spent thousands of hours putting my lessons into a REFINED LIBRARY YOU GET TO USE!!! This translates into = MASSIVE RESULTS NOW!!!

*Learn In My unique, professional music environment vs a closet sized room.

ENVIRONMENT MATTERS!!! You're going to like coming to lessons and being in a $80,000 recording studio vs a closet or your bedroom week after week. What real world music experiences do you gain by being in a closet or your bedroom?  Answer = Very few!! Now, how fun does a closet sized room sound vs a $80,000 recording studio? Answer = STUDIO WINS EVERY TIME! Play on amps alone valued at over $40,000!!!

*Increased passion for music And Life!

How does this sound, you get to record famous songs you like and heard of in a big recording studio just like the band had to on their CD, sound cool?

How about playing live shows of these songs you 100% learned just like the pro bands who made them, sound cool?

How about using technology to get better faster and see more results month after month?

Does this sound like the average guitar/bass student does any or even some of this?

Isn’t guitar/bass learning and training sounding pretty cool now? If so, you haven’t even done this, you’ve just read how you’re going to do it so imagine how this really feels after you’ve done it? Yes, it’s a great feeling and your passion for music will explode.

Simply put, you will like coming to lessons each week and hopefully enjoy life more with your new found skill set and self confidence. Students get so pumped about lessons I had to team up with a music store to give them deals on all the new gear they buy. Whoa!!

*This Is A Real Music School, I Create MUSICIANS!

Think of becoming a musical body builder with many big and developed muscles all over. This example is a musician and I train you to become this. Now think of having just big arms but everything else is pretty small and not that strong etc? Which sounds better to you and which one is stronger, more productive and can handle hard new musicial tasks time after time? The underdeveloped music body is most local guitar/bass lessons and internet lessons, limited category training and out of balance music skills. See my friends, the internet is ok at helping you be a slightly better player and learning random aspects you find videos on but this knowledge takes a lot of time to find online and what’s even worth learning/playing etc. You need a PRO Player/Teacher/Coach with a planned out school system to become a musician. I CREATE MUSICIANS!!! Becoming a musician has WAY MORE VALUE than being just a better player, this is a FACT and one reason why music colleges are so expensive and require you to attend for many years. You will experience more real music aspects here, vs traditional music stores or average teachers, that will make you better in MANY musical categories/topics etc. You will not only become a better player here, but a better all around musician by my guidance and develop new skills to carry over into whatever music you love to play most. All these skills will make learning/playing/applying way better and faster leading to bigger results. When you understand and can apply many aspects of music you will NOT get into a rut or plateau, you turn into a guitar/bass beast and constantly make bigger and bigger gains physically and mentally. You're going to enjoy practicing more than ever before because you'll see you’re becoming a better all around musician by training in all these musical categories. Your musical pie chart is going to get filled in and I’ll show you proof we'll learn and train in a ton of musical categories week after week to make it happen for you. Become a musician, not just a player!!!

*We don’t Use Progress Limiting Guitar Books That Will Hold You Back!

Want to get out of your rut, physical plateau or over your creative wall? Well then don't go buying Brand X Guitar Book 1 and expect fast results!!! Using the same old guitar books written in the 70's by mediocre teachers and players isn't going to offer you faster progress. I have a custom made music database that will instantly supercharge your results!! I also have classes that train in specific categories you will like and need help in to advance even more on guitar. I taught guitar and bass lessons in music stores across IL for 20 years; I know all of the pitfalls students face in this traditional format and closet-sized room environment. I spent a lot of time thinking about all of the areas students were not getting addressed in the traditional format and I created my own custom learning format to address each issue. My lessons literally check off as many learning and training boxes as possible that you won’t get with traditional lessons or the sad guitar books. I offer all this EXTRA VALUE while keeping the price of the lessons CHEAPER (different lesson packages available that will blow you away!!) than music stores/teachers!!!

* Stop The YouTube Madness (Watching vs Training)!!

Think about this, how much time do you spend watching guitar lessons on YouTube vs you actually playing the lessons from YouTube??? This is a results killer, I estimated from asking new students this question that they waste about 75% of all their lesson time watching the video vs playing the actual lesson taught!!!! This is a HUGE loss in potential guitar abilities. SPEND MORE TIME LEARNING AND TRAINING and less time watching by taking real guitar lessons from a PRO!!! Oh ya, and when you have a question or a technique that's in need of tweaking how's that YouTube video going to stop that bad habit?? = IT WON'T, no one's there on YouTube to train you in real time!!! There is MORE VALUE in working with PROFESSIONALS!!!

*Faster Improvement with the most efficient playing techniques.

Check out my Heavy Metal Section (You don’t need to like heavy metal to learn my techniques), Super Shred is PROOF that I can turn you into a physical freak and play whatever you want!!! I’ve spent decades refining the art of playing efficiency using sports science and applying hundreds of years of traditional string techniques I learned in college, this translates to = You Getting Better MUCH FASTER!! Most guitar/bass players are self-taught and don’t give much thought to HOW they do any physical movements on the guitar/bass. I’ve not only thought all of this through but unlike most guitar teachers, who are self-taught and don’t even play efficiently themselves, I’ve created technique training documents I’ve refined over many years YOU GET TO USE!!! So, how are those other teachers going to teach picking and fretting efficiency to you and make playing easier, more consistent and accurate when they don’t know how to do it themselves and haven’t bothered to think, refine and put any time into creating a document and training sessions to help you? They can't help you = FACT. Don't believe me, just look at how 99% of them play sitting down. If you're not sure what I'm getting at, then I can easily teach you in 5 minutes how they're all 100% playing with improper muscle memory and playing posture while harming their and your progress.

*28 years experience teaching guitar FULL TIME with a Music Education degree.

• Who you’re getting lessons from should matter, correct? = In the guitar teaching industry, the combo above is really rare to find. Teachers/Trainers/Coaches are NOT all the same and either is their effort. Everyone in elite sports knows coaching matters, in music the coach MATTERS EVEN MORE!!!

• Do you want lessons from a teacher with music educational training and continuing education? = What the teacher knows is just one valuable aspect to passing down knowledge, I’m a teacher that also continues to learn and grow year to year. How about this, would you prefer your Doctor have a degree from Harvard or The Medical School Of Online Videos? Ya, I know which Doctor I’m choosing.

• Does teaching experience matter to you? = I’d hope so as you’re PAYING for lessons and your results based on proven teaching systems and experiences!! Think of it like this, music teachers are guides, would you rather pay someone who isn’t sure how to lead you to Guitar City or pay the guide who knows exactly how to get you to Guitar City on the fastest route with great insight on Guitar City and makes the ride fun along the way to make the travel to time there fly by??

• Do you value testimonial proof from others? = If so, check out my testimonials page I created over the last few years (I didn’t ask for student testimonials until 2017 and only from students here for 1+ years). I have so many I had to create an Adults and Kids page since I started the page recently.

• Would you rather take lessons from a FULL TIME teacher or a PART TIME teacher that also works a different job? = I’m not only a FULL TIME teacher but it’s the ONLY job I’ve had over the last 27 years!!! I constantly think about HOW to make the lessons better when I’m not teaching, this is how I keep making my school bigger and better and with more value for YOU!!! It’s very difficult to make the lessons better when you don’t have any time to “THINK” about what is working, what needs refinement & how to grow. Also, I’ve had new students find me after their teacher left the music industry for a new career job because it wasn’t their true passion or because they weren’t really that good. This is my ONLY job and I'm not going to EVER quit!!

• Does it matter to you if your teacher cares a lot and wants you to reach your goals? = It’s easy to see how much your teacher cares even from the first lesson, do they plan out your lesson path and express it to you weekly, do you fill out questionnaires, do they ask you to think about your goals and hold you to them, do they invest money into their school for technology/gear/experiences that you get to use, did they even bother to create a school of learning systems/programs and have a music philosophy, do they spend time each week to create a database to help YOU, do you get homework emails from them, did you meet them first before starting lessons so they can explain how they’re going to help you?

*No Wasted Lesson time & Money!

99% of traditional guitar teachers waste lesson time and money due to having to write new lessons in your blank music book each week. This translates to around 20% of every traditional lesson being spent with you doing nothing.  I DON’T DO THAT.  My lessons gain you back all of this lost and valuable lesson time/money by using my enormous database of lessons in which I created ahead of your lesson time. I simply hit "print" and out comes your lesson.  Wouldn’t you rather spend 20% more time training and learning during each lesson vs. watching the teacher write in your book and wasting all of that time? The simple answer is YES, but you can only get that with my lessons. 

MATH TIME = How You're Wasting Money With Traditional Lessons That Write Out Everything.

If a student takes a 1 hour lesson 52 times a year, 20% of 52 hours equals = 10.4 hours of FREE lessons!!! My lesson system vs traditional lessons = 10 1/2 free lessons a year and more lesson value for you.

*Practice Perfectly at home and make More Progress Each Week.

With most traditional lessons when you go home to practice, your basic music book and blank staff/tab book the teacher wasted 20% of the lesson time writing in, doesn’t play back the lesson notes and rhythms perfectly like my guitar program files do. Their music book also doesn't allow you to slow down the music or loop hard music sections so you can train more effectively to get better. This means most students using the traditional music book don’t practice at home correctly and lose out on making maximum progress each week. My music program will allow you to practice and train at home the EXACT way you did here with me. This means that your time away from me is like I’m there with you, because the program will play the lesson/song PERFECT every time meaning you'll practice at home perfect every time and make WAY MORE PROGRESS EACH WEEK.  You can’t get that progress from traditional lessons; I know, I stopped doing that myself years ago because my new way is MUCH better for you. I have proof this leads to faster results!

*Keep every Guitar and Bass lesson FOREVER!

I create custom lessons that I put in a lesson folder specifically for you!! Good luck finding a teacher that can say this = I have EVERY lesson you’ve ever done with me!!! This folder is a tremendous amount of lesson value YOU get to use at home FOREVER!!

Now think about when you lose your blank lesson book from the closet lessons that wasted 20% of each lesson by the teacher writing in it, aren't those lessons gone forever? = YEP.  But with my system, I simply just email you your Lesson Folder and in seconds EVERY lesson you ever took from me is back in your computer. Think about this value, you will have every lesson file you've learned here and can review them years and decades from now exactly the way we learned and trained on them here. Now on the joking side, this is huge for all you Jr. High through College Students who seemed to always lose your books. Hahaha!