Guitar Lessons... Learn the fundamentals of rock guitar. All ages are welcome, young and old... 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 in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas for this spring. During our in-home lessons, we'll be covering basic rhythm techniques, power chords, barre chords, scales, triads and diads, 7th chords, suspended chords, the blues scale, pentatonic scale, major and minor scales, chord progressions, picking techniques, rests and note duration, how to read sheet music and TAB, styles, learn music theory, ear training, and more. I've put together a list of music ranging from classic rock like Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Foreigner, and Journey... to 80s glam and hard rock like Def Leppard, Joan Jett, Bon Jovi, Poison, Warrant, and Whitesnake... to heavier metal like Ratt, Skid Row, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns n Roses, and Dio... depending on the 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. The first 10 or so minutes of your lesson will be setting up, tuning your guitar, and warm up exercises like playing scales or practicing switching chords, and a short review of where we left off. From there, we dive straight into learning the riffs, chord progressions, and other elements of different songs I have picked for the program along with songs you may have brought in yourself that you'd like to learn. 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, Motley Crue, Aerosmith, and KISS. If you are more into pop, country, or other genres rather than rock, we can still learn basic chords and music theory, and other elements of guitar playing to help you learn the basics of playing your instrument. The program is designed for you, the beginner musician, and we can 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 and growing up as a teenager through the 80s, I was around through the disco era and also loved what we now call yacht rock, 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... Learn the basics of singing with the authentic bel canto method of classical singing along with other techniques. Pittsburgh and surrounding areas. No experience is necessary... just bring yourself and your voice! Children, teens, young adults, and older folks... all are welcome. Its never too late to do something you enjoy so let's get started ! Most 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 increased my range and improved my technique to sing songs by Foreigner, Journey, Heart, Stevie Nicks, Styx, Dokken, Skid Row / Sebastian Bach, David Coverdale and Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Warrant, and more. We'll go over 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 so 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 good list of example songs that highlight the techniques we'll be covering including higher range notes, holding long notes, falsetto, and vibrato. Most vocal instructors in my experience tend to play piano while the student sings, but I will bring my guitar to your house 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. We'll have you learn to sing over the actual song playing in the background and 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 is a good 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. You can 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 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 concentrate 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.

Pricing... I'm currently offering half hour and full 1 hour weekly in-home private guitar and vocal lessons around Boston's North Shore and Cape Ann areas including Danvers, Middleton, Peabody, Beverly, Burlington, Salem, Gloucester, Rockport, Ipswich, and more. One hour lessons are priced at $60 per lesson, 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. This is for a limited time, 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. Boston area students... call 724-472-5653 to schedule a phone consultation with me and to enroll in music lessons while I still have openings. Even a couple of months of lessons can help you on your way to learning how to sing or play guitar. Now booking guitar and singing lessons around Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania including Natrona Heights, Ford City, Brackenridge, Tarentum, Kittanning, Butler, Springdale, and Leechburg, starting May 1st... with other areas to follow. Pittsburgh area students... please call 724-472-5653 or email me at ronschaub87@hotmail.com to save 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. Lessons are paid monthly by the first of each month (cash or check), and some months will have 4 lessons while others may have 5 depending on what day of the week you choose to have your lessons. You are not obligated to continue your music lessons any longer than you want to. You can just enroll for a month to see how you like them. If you wish to continue, just let me know and pay your monthly tuition cost before the beginning of each month and I will keep coming each 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!