Guitar Lessons... Learn the essentials of rock guitar. All ages are welcome, old and young... no previous experience with an instrument is necessary. You need to have your own guitar, though... although I will be bringing mine as well... the one that you see here, actually. Booking students for guitar lessons in Kittanning and surrounding areas for this spring. During our in-home lessons, we'll be covering scales, basic rhythm techniques, power chords, barre chords, triads and diads, 7th chords, suspended chords, the blues scale, pentatonic scale, major and minor scales, chord progressions, picking techniques, rests and note duration, different styles, how to read sheet music and TAB, learn music theory, ear training, and more. The first 10 minutes of your lesson will be setting up, tuning your guitar, and warm up exercises like practicing scales or switching chords, and then a short review of where we left off. After that, we dive straight into learning the riffs, chord progressions, and other elements of different songs I've picked for the program along with songs you may have brought in yourself that you'd like to learn. I've put together a list of music ranging from classic rock like. Foreigner, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, and Journey... to 80s glam and hard rock like Poison, Def Leppard, Joan Jett, Bon Jovi, Warrant, and Whitesnake... to heavier metal like Ozzy Osbourne, Ratt, Skid Row, Guns n Roses, and Dio... depending on what style of music you want to play. We'll cover famous riffs and intros to different songs and study the styles of certain guitarists like George Lynch of Dokken and Neal Schon of Journey. We'll practice different rock anthems and heavy metal classics and work on some of your own favorites if you want to. If it's a guitar part in a song I'm not familiar with or something I've never played before, we can learn it together. If you're a heavy metal fan, we'll also be learning techniques from the Troy Stetina metal rhythm guitar series, featuring exercises and examples in the styles of ACDC, KISS Motley Crue, and Aerosmith, . Based out of the Natrona Heights area, I am now scheduling beginner music students for Leechburg, Apollo, and Kittanning guitar lessons as well as other nearby towns. Just bring your love of music, your instrument, and get ready for some of the most fun and affordable guitar lessons Kittanning and surrounding areas have to offer. If you are more into pop, country, or styles and genres other than rock, we can still learn basic chords and music theory, and other essentials of guitar playing to help you learn the fundamentals of playing your instrument. My program is designed for you, the beginner musician, and we will focus on the style of music and types of songs you want to learn, so I'll do my best to help you on your way. As a little kid in the 70s then growing up as a teenager through the 80s, I was there through the disco era and also loved what we call yacht rock today, so I'm sure we can come up with a list of songs to learn that works best for you. To learn more about me and my musical journey, feel free to check out the links above for a detailed history of my childhood and highschool years growing up in Southwestern Pennsylvania and my life from back then on up through today as well as many photos along the way.

Vocal Lessons... Classic Rock, Pop, Country, 80s Metal, and more. Learn the basic fundamentals of singing with the authentic bel canto method of classical singing along with other modern techniques, applied to today's popular styles of music. Kittanning and surrounding areas. Sing like the rockstars ! No experience or equipment is necessary... just bring yourself and your voice! Children, teens, young adults, and older folks too... all are welcome. Its never too late to do something you enjoy so let's get started ! Much of my training by vocal coaches or voice instructors has been practicing the bel canto method known as "beautiful singing" in the Italian style. I've applied these methods to singing 80s rock and improved my range and technique singing songs by Foreigner, Journey, Heart, Stevie Nicks, Styx, Dokken, Skid Row / Sebastian Bach, David Coverdale and Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Warrant, and more. We'll learn different types of vocal warm ups and exercises, singing vowels and scales, body posture, open throat technique, and singing from your diaphragm. The first 10 or 15 minutes of our lesson will be to warm up using these vowel exercises and scales to thin out the vocal chords and prevent injury or strain and to get you loosened up and ready to sing different songs in all styles of music. I've put together a great list of example songs that highlight the techniques we'll be covering including higher range notes, holding long notes, falsetto, distortion, and vibrato. Most vocal instructors in my experience like to play piano while the student sings, but I will bring my guitar to your home and play scales for you to sing along to for warm ups and vocal exercises. We'll also work on different ways to activate your diaphragm, so that you're not singing from your throat and wearing yourself out or causing injury. Classic Rock and Metal fans... We'll be singing songs by The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Journey, Styx, and glam /hair metal bands like Warrant, Dokken, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Great White, Whitesnake, and others. Choose from classic rock, or hair metal... and even yacht rock / soft rock from the late 70s and early 80s like Little River Band, Ambrosia, Atlanta Rhythm Station, and Dr Hook. We can also work on contemporary Christian praise and worship music such as Hillsong United, Jeremy Camp, and New Life Church, or traditional church choir hymns and Christmas classics. The style of music is up to you. We can focus on just male or female songs for your vocal lessons instead of both, and you can also bring in your own songs to sing and we can learn them together. I will do everything I can to make your Kittanning vocal lessons fun and to help you learn techniques to become a better singer while working on your favorite kinds of songs. Having attended McGrail School of Voice in Pittsburgh learning the Bel Canto style of singing when I was in my early 30s, as well as taking vocal lessons at the Little Lesson House at Pianos n Stuff Music in Blawnox as I got older, and following several online vocal coaches in between... I've put together a program where we apply all those vocal techniques to 80s style hard rock... and we can also use those same techniques to help you learn to sing the style of music you want. When taking vocal lessons Kittanning area students and other music students from rural towns in Armstrong or Butler counties usually have to drive all the way into Pittsburgh to learn from some of the more well known voice instructors. But I'm not far away, and my prices are more affordable than most of the more established vocal coaches in the Pittsburgh area. So, before making your decision to enroll in an expensive far from home music program, give me a call and lets talk about what you want to sing and maybe I can help you from what I've learned over the years at different music schools and also help you save some money and have more fun while you're learning. We'll have you learn to sing with the actual song playing in the background as well as over instrumental versions if we can find them, and I'll sing along side of you at times like a duet. Later on, I can bring a vocal mic, voice processor / mixer, and pa system if you'd like to see how you would sound in a live setting. Much like karaoke, or being on stage... this would be a great way to see how your voice carries with effects and amplification in a small venue... but in the privacy of your own home. You dont have to be a rock and metal fan to learn how to sing. Depending on the style of music that you want to focus on... I have many examples of songs that are great for learning to sing properly including early 90s country like Travis Tritt, Diamond Rio, Faith Hill, and Alabama... along with 70s/80s pop like Olivia Newton John, Stevie Nick's, and Rod Stewart.

Pricing... I'm currently offering half hour and full 1 hour weekly in-home private guitar and vocal lessons around Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania including Armstrong, Allegheny, Butler, Indiana, and Westmoreland counties. Now accepting students in Kittanning and surrounding areas. One hour lessons are currently priced at $60 per session, and half hour lessons are $35 per lesson, and an additional $5 - $10 transportation charge if you live more than a half hour away, depending on the driving distance to your home. Lessons are paid monthly by the first of each month (cash or check), and some months will have 4 lessons while others could have 5 depending on what day of the week you choose to have your lessons. You are not obligated to continue your program any longer than you want to. You can try my lessons and just enroll for a month to see how you like them. If you want to continue, just let me know and pay your monthly tuition cost before the beginning of each month and I will keep coming week to week as we learn new techniques and concepts and work on more songs together. It's all up to you. So have fun, and let's rock! This is for a limited time only, as I will be returning to my home state later this Spring at the end of April to offer in-home private lessons for guitar and vocals around Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania, as I look forward to rebuilding my music studio. Now booking guitar and vocal lessons in Kittanning, Ford City, Elderton, Rural Valley, and New Bethlehem starting May 1st... with other areas to follow. Pittsburgh area students... please call 724-472-5653 or email me at ronschaub87@hotmail.com to hold your place for this Spring to enroll in music lessons. You can mail your initial tuition payment to me at: Ron Schaub, P.O. Box 243, Burlington MA 01803 to hold your weekly timeslot. Please make your check payable to Ron Schaub.