One-on-one over Zoom
Live, private lessons from the comfort of your home, scheduled around your week. All you need is your guitar and an internet connection.
Lessons
Lessons built around you.
Private, one-on-one guitar lessons over Zoom for every age, level, and style — acoustic or electric. Whether you're picking up the guitar for the very first time or sharpening advanced chops, we'll build a plan around your goals and the music you actually want to play.
34 yearsPlaying experience
20+ yearsTeaching experience
AllAges, levels & styles
How lessons work
Simple to start, built to fit your life.
Built around your goals
Every lesson is shaped around what you want to play and how you learn best — not a one-size-fits-all curriculum. Want to learn one song? Explore a new style? We start there.
Materials & support
Printable lesson and practice sheets when they help, plus the freedom to message between lessons whenever you get stuck on something.
Choose your path
Wherever you're starting from.
Beginner
Get comfortable and have fun from day one: open chords, strumming and rhythm, reading basics, posture and hand position, timing, and your first real songs.
Intermediate
Connect the dots across the neck: barre chords, the CAGED system, scales and lead vocabulary, fretboard fluency, ear training, and focused style studies.
Advanced
Become a complete musician: harmony and theory, improvisation, jazz language, sight-reading, composition and arranging, and performance preparation.
Styles
One teacher, many genres.
Jimmy came up in rock and metal, studied jazz and classical formally, and has played everything from blues to musical theater. That range means you can explore widely — or go deep on the style you love.
The method
Guitar GPS — always know where you are on the neck.
Jimmy is the author of the Guitar GPS book series, a step-by-step approach to mapping the fretboard, scales, and chords so the instrument finally makes sense. Lessons pair that method with a set of free practice tools you can use any time between sessions.
Metronome & tuner
Lock in your timing and get in tune before you play a note.
Scales & chord library
See every scale shape and chord voicing across the neck, in any key.
Scale exercises & trainer
Practice patterns with playback, and drill note names on the fretboard.
Getting started
Three steps to your first lesson.
1 · Reach out
Send a quick note with your goals, your playing level, and a few songs or artists you love.
2 · Free trial lesson
We meet over Zoom, play a little, and map out a plan that fits your goals and schedule.
3 · Start playing
Weekly lessons and materials tailored to you, with steady progress you can actually hear.
Ready when you are
Your first lesson is on me.
Try a free online lesson and see what learning with Jimmy feels like.