Learn from your friends at Acoustic Guitar
Five awesome Teaching Artists—Isa Burke, Lisa Liu, Mamie Minch, Sean McGowan, and Thu Tran—want to help you grow as a guitarist!
Beginning April 1, they’ll be sharing engaging insights and invaluable guitar wisdom with you each and every week. To kick things off, tune into our hangout to get to know the TAs. You’ll hear some great music and stories, and are sure to learn a thing or two.HOW IT WORKS
It’s all happening in the Acoustic Guitar Patreon community! Join at the Supporter tier (or higher) to get the Teaching Artist benefits. That’s one new video lesson each week, plus virtual concerts and regular roundtable discussions with the Teaching Artists. You’ll also get instant access to the TAB and notation in our Song of the Month club, invitations to participate in live monthly workshops, and more.
Each of these five guitarists brings their unique talent and approach to teaching. With distinct voices and areas of knowledge, your membership in our community connects you to a wealth of musical know-how.
THU
Thu Tran is a guitarist and songwriter whose intuitive approach to learning and teaching guitar puts an emphasis on the foundations. Thu’s style blends fingerstyle, flatpicking, and clawhammer techniques; he takes a humanistic approach, treating the guitar like a voice, letting the music breathe.
LISA
Lisa Liu is a leading voice in jazz guitar, performing and leading workshops around the world. Now based in San Francisco, Lisa explores connections between contemporary jazz, traditional folk, manouche, and solo guitar.
MAMIE
Mamie Minch has deep connections with acoustic guitars. She is not only an accomplished fingerstyle blues player but also a repair and restoration luthier at Brooklyn Lutherie. Mamie also hosts the Acoustic Guitar Camp at Ashokan.
SEAN
As a fingerstyle jazz and acoustic guitarist, Sean McGowan combines many diverse musical influences with unconventional techniques to create a broad palette of textures for solo guitar. Sean teaches and performs at guitar festivals around the world and is a professor of music at University of Colorado Denver.
ISA
Isa Burke is an exceedingly versatile instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer. She has played with Aoife O’Donovan, the Mountain Goats, and her own band Lula Wiles. She plays guitar and fiddle, and sings in her own style that draws from traditional folk, modern indie-rock, and beyond.
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$5 per month gets you a new lesson every week, plus workshops, virtual roundtables, songs to play, and more.
