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Aside from performing and recording we give lessons to a select group of dedicated guitar students. Our students vary widely in both age and occupation but all have an inspiring desire to increase their knowledge and skill on guitar. Both of us are patient and move along at an individual pace with each student. We give one-on-one lessons in a comfortable environment and are located in downtown NYC very close to all subway lines. There is always a guitar here for students to use during lessons.

There are many great guitarists in New York City, but this doesn’t always carry over in their lessons. Learn from guitarists that can teach as well as play.
  
     
     
 

Intermediate - Advanced



Fix any bad habits while building on your strengths.
Learn and understand the songs that YOU want to play
in their entirety.
Scales and when and where to use them.
Learn how to better phrase your lead statements.
Blues Intros, Outros, Turnarounds, Flash Licks.
Learn Comping (good rhythm guitar is a necessity!)
Chord Voicings, Inversions, etc...
Learn the techniques needed to play the songs you want to play.
Learn to get great tone with your fingers.
Develop great vibrato and intonation.
Ear Training (learn how to figure out songs on your own - It isn't
magic!) also helps with improvisation.
 


Guitar taught in the styles, but not limited to:
Peter Green, Magic Sam, T Bone Walker, Otis Rush, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King (all the Kings!), Eric Clapton, Debbie Davies, Angus Young (AC/DC), Luther Allison, Bo Diddley, Johnny Winter, Jimmy Page, Hendrix, S.R.V. Chuck Berry, Smokin’ Joe Kubeck, Bill Perry, Deborah Coleman, Jonny Lang, Susan Tedeschi, Anson Funderburgh, Kenny Neal, Tab Benoit, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Rodgers, Albert Collins, Mark May, Mick Taylor, Kim Simmonds, Mike Bloomfield, Shannon Curfman, Shuggie Otis, Billy Gibbons (Z.Z. Top), Gary Moore, Leslie West, Bob Morgolin, Ronnie Earl, Jimmy Vaughan, Paul Kossoff, Little Milton, Danny Kirwin, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Keith Richards, The Beatles, Dwight Yoakam, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Hollywood Fats (West Coast Swing), Robben Ford, Howlin' Wolf, Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown), Little Walter, Popa Chubby, Guitar Slim, Slim Harpo, Junior Wells, and many many more...

www.myspace.com/MarkShieldsBlues

Also available for recording sessions - have your songs sound the best they can!
Email Mark at Mark@leightingandshields.com for rates and scheduling information.



 





Slide and Regular Guitar      •       Beginners - Intermediate

I am a self-taught musician and have developed my own unique way of teaching music and guitar. My approach is instinctual, which is appreciated by beginning and intermediate guitarists alike. Students that have taken lessons prior to coming to me tell me all too often about their other guitar teachers who turned what should have been exciting lessons into a dreary task, this will not be the case with me. My lessons are oriented to help you absorb the music you want to play at your own pace and within your own abilities. Along with being shown the song ideas you want to learn, you will also be shown the roots of these statements and their many applications by other great guitarists. It all comes down to vocabulary; after you learn certain catch phrases you will be able to play them at your discretion and creative whimsy. I will not bog you down with scales and theory. My interest is that you learn the songs and techniques needed to master the material you want to learn. I teach both regular guitar and also slide guitar specializing in roots music, rock, garage, and blues.

 

Learn basic open chords, barre chords, major, minor, 7ths, 9ths, varied strumming and picking techniques, double stops, bending, vibrato, sustain, box shuffles, swing, rumba, hybrid picking, and comping.

Learn to play slide guitar as an instrument. There is more to playing slide guitar than merely using a slide to play your lead notes and rhythm. I will teach you how to develop great intonation and tone, a necessity to being able to play like the pros. You don’t need an expensive guitar to get a great sound.

Also available for recording sessions - have your songs sound the best they can!
Email Lynne at Lynne@leightingandshields.com for rates and scheduling information.




Here are a few of our students:



David P. picks up his custom sunburst "Kelly"
from Rick Kelly (Carmine Street Guitars). Its
made of 80 year old swamp ash and is light
as a feather!"
CarmineStreetGuitars.com



Ofrit getting her first electric guitar during the Guitar Center Field trip. We had 6 students meet us there and 2 found the guitars they were looking for. We tried out each of the guitars they were interested in and helped them get deals.

   Jim P. finds his new electric guitar at Carmine Street Guitars. He also got an amp there that day.
Rick P. hanging out in the back with the vintage guitars during the Guitar Center trip, Mark Shields behind him trying out something costly.


   We've been sending all of our students to Rick Kelly the Luthier at Carmine Street Guitars to get their guitars set-up and also to find really great guitars. So far at least 10 of our students have found G&L's, acoustics, or custom made Kellys made by Rick himself.
Jim B. watching a Leighting & Shields show at the Dinosaur Barbeque in Harlem
   David P. hanging out at a Daylight Blues Band show at the Garage on 7th Ave South

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