Bill Walker
Phone: 831-458-9573
Email: billwalker@baymoon.com
Private Lessons On: Guitar, lap steel and slide guitar,music theory, and composition, DAW and signal processing consulting
Location of Lessons: my east side home studio
Housecalls? only for consulting
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Specialties: various rock styles,pop,jazz, funk and RnB, folk, blues and world music styles, slide and lap steel, alternate tunings, improvisation, and composition.
Credentials: Bill has been one of the most respected and in demand local teachers in the Monterey bay area for nearly 30 years. he has been formally educated at Cabrillo College, U C Santa Cruz , and the Berklee College of Music. he began teaching through Union grove Music in 1980, and taught group classes through the UCSC Recreation department for 10 years
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Student Requirements: ages 10 to 100, I am willing to consider younger students. Student must have a properly set up and playable guitar, younger and smaller students are encouraged to start on a 3/4 size instrument.
Music Teachers’ Association of CA Member?
Low Income Policy?
Rates: $50 hr. $25 1/2 hr.
Other Services: consultations on live and recorded sound, digital audio work stations, signal processing, and sound design. $75 per hr. Available for clinics
Additional Information: Bill has also been active as a performer since the late 70's in bands Tao Chemical and Rhythmical, World's Collide, Dresden, Santa Cruz Steel, Dream Beach, the Al James band, and most recently as a solo performer, and member of the trio New Delta. He just returned from a performance and clinic tour of Switzerland, and has been working on a solo CD and recently traveled to Istanbul for a collaboration with Turkish musician Erdem Helvacioglu.