Cy Pa

I was born in Stuttgart, Germany and raised in Northern California in a small town called Clearlake. My father brought me up listening to people like Jimi Hendrix, Bob Seger, Van Morrison, The Temptations and more. I had a deep love for music all of my life and when he bought me my first guitar at age 11 I was unstoppable from that moment forward.

 I received four years of private lessons from a Musician's Institute graduate and knew from there that music was all I ever wanted out of life and dedicated my life to studying the guitar and music to one day be able to be like my heroes out on stage.

 After high school I lived for a year in the real world, never liked it, and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a degree in music from Musician's Institute, which I graduated from in September in 09. I now perform with my original project Typical Situation, as well as having performed with other great acts such as  The Big Joe Hurt Band, Rakoon and Carreyo (Sony/BMG). I have done work for David Coury's Singing For The Actor class as a background musician and more!

 My main influences are Jimi Hendrix, John Frusciante, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Philip Sayce. My strongest musical styles are Blues, Rock, Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Rap, R&B and Smooth Jazz. Although with my education I am qualified to teach all other styles.

 As a teacher I believe that the key to learning the Guitar is to start by creating the finger strength to play, beginning with warm up exercises and some simple scale work to really build up your fingers strength as well as dexterity. Once they are in good shape, only takes about a week or two, I can start teaching how to solo and play chords and build a basic knowledge and understanding of the Guitar and how to use it as naturally as you use your own hands! From there, you'll move on to whatever style of music interests you, while learning how to use techniques from other styles of music to compliment your style of choice! 

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