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- Rate $75
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- Guitar
- Acoustic Guitar
- Electric guitar
- Classical Guitar
- Ukulele
Enthusiasm is contagious! I have made my living teaching and performing guitar for 40 years, and I’m as fun now as I was then, and I really know my stuff. I love playing, I love teaching, I love all
- Guitar
- Acoustic Guitar
- Electric guitar
- Classical Guitar
- Ukulele
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About Tarra
Music enriches everybody. I believe in a creative approach to the discipline of learning to play an instrument WELL, creating beautiful tone in a way that is healthy for your body!
I think it is crucial that lessons be FUN, whatever that means to each unique student, and that the immense satisfaction of learning to play music is a reward in and of itself.
Music develops the mind, heart and body. Lessons are creative but also rigorous and excellent!
It’s rarely too early and never too late to learn to play. I can teach anyone to play and play well, if they practice they way I show them. My oldest student was 89, and my youngest are 2 years old.
Everyone can learn to play!
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A life with music is a happy life!
And all of my students are learning to play with such joy and beauty, power and heart, technique and artistry that I am moved, blown away, and happy every time I teach. My students inspire me. How can I NOT enjoy teaching them? And enthusiasm is contagious.
I have been successful in several different professions, and have taught in all levels of schools and colleges. But I find private lessons and small groups to be the most satisfying of all.
I choose to do this job, among all the other possible jobs, because I love it!
My first paid lessons were on a barter system in a school of performing arts at age 11 - I traded guitar lessons for harp and ballet with other students.
My first paid teaching was as a college student in the chemistry labs. I loved it! When I went into the work force, I ended up doing mostly trainings...
In fact, everything I did, I ended up teaching. I did yoga, I taught it. I taught artists to make paint. I taught folk dance.... Eventually I realized that being a teacher was just what I needed to be.
So, I tutored and taught music privately and extensively beginning in my 20s, taught in several community colleges in my 30s, as well as in elementary, middle schools and pre-schools. I did some specific teacher training at that time.
Once I discovered the Suzuki method (as a mother, when my son studied violin), I took extensive training courses in violin and guitar methods, as well as a good deal of enrichment teacher training. I loved all of it....
I have a Masters in Music, with a major in Classical Guitar Performance, and a Minor in Classical Violin, and in composition. I also have done many, many specific teacher training classes, through the Suzuki Association and several other organizations, in each instrument, and in general teaching skills, with a specialty in children.
I have a great deal of training in teaching techniques. I also have many years of experience as a full-time professional musician. This includes being paid for singing, playing EVERY style of classical, acoustic and electric guitar, playing violin (or fiddle!), and various other instruments such as penny whistle in formal concerts, events like weddings or corporate parties, or in the recording studio.
Even my youngest and oldest students have gained paying gigs with me and my studio!
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Guerra Music &
Suzuki Strings South Florida
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About the lesson
- All Levels
- English
- Spanish
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
Spanish
Each student is unique. There is no typical process. Each age has different requirements and needs. Each personality type has different requirements and needs. Each person learns in a different style, and at a different rate. Getting to know the student is a continual process which starts from the first lesson and continues forever!
That being said, all of these various students have to learn certain basic physical things in order to play an instrument beautifully, in a healthy way, and in such a way that they will be able to continue on with the instrument if they so desire, and go as far as they want!
What I am very good at is finding the correct style for each person. I am also very good at seeing the potential for that person, and asking them to reach for that growth, usually just a tiny bit out of their comfort zone that will lead them to where they want to be.
Then we stand back to together and admire what they have done, and go on to the next step....
I have worked with highly gifted, learning disabled, so called "good" students, and so called "problem" students, autistic and Down's students, so called ordinary every day students, students of all ages, all religions, all colors or races, all income levels, all walks of life. I have taught students with no language in common, and students who are amazingly articulate. I have taught people of every personality type and learning style....
Go and observe every teacher that you are considering. If they don't let you do that, you don't want to study with them. Talk to their students, and, if applicable, the parents of their students. Most teachers will find you someone to talk to if you ask.
Finding the best teacher for YOU is a very individual decision. It may or MAY NOT depend on how well they play, what their qualifications, age, connections or experience are. You must be comfortable with this person.
Do you like formality (not me), fun (me), seriousness (that's me too, but I mask it with fun), male (not me) female (me), etc, etc?
Then take a trial lesson. Don't ask for a free trial lesson. Chances are that you make a lot more money than the teacher does... no one ever got rich teaching.
At the end of each of the two school semesters, we have a large recital. My recitals are fun events, not nerve-wracking torture sessions.
It's like watching the Olympics: to see people reach beyond themselves, express themselves fully, and sound beautful in the process, is inspiring!
And while putting together a recital (very difficult!!!), I wonder why I do three per year, but after each one, I know why, and why I could never quit what I do....
A few things worth thinking about before reaching out
What kind of music do I want to play/do I like? It helps to be able to pull up a youtube example.
If guitar, what style? Same for violin, or voice.
Do I want to be really good, or just have it as a fun hobby? For instance, if guitar, do I just want to accompany myself with chords while singing, or do I want to be able to fingerpick, do fancy chords or rhythms, etc.
and the most important: HOW MUCH TIME CAN I PUT INTO THIS?
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Review
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5 (3 reviews)
Perfect! her teaching style and very thorough
- Thank you for the lovely review Wisline! I appreciate it. I am going to really enjoy teaching Sunmer!Tarra's response :
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Recommendations
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Tarra Guerra is one of the best teachers I have ever known. She is the consummate practitioner of the Suzuki method; in every one of her sessions the parent learns as much as the child. Something nearly magical happens when she teaches and there is a shared learning experience that involves all the participants. As a parent, she helped me to understand that teaching must be partnered with learning. As a student, she gifted me the humility and the patient confidence to persist and to succeed.
Miss Tarra is brilliant. My 4 year old son is progressing so well with his guitar lessons thanks to this amazing teacher. We have been with Miss Tarra for 1 year now and couldn't be happier.
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Rates
Rate
- $75
Pack rates
- 5h: $375
- 10h: $750
free lessons
This first lesson offered with Tarra will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 1hr
online
- $75/h
Details
For people just interested in private lessons, my rates are:
30 minutes $47.50
45 minutes $50.00
1 hour $75
The Suzuki program has a lower hourly lesson rate, but adds $140 per month for the additional weekly group class, paying gigs, entry to competitions, workshops and other events, and extra recitals.
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