Guitar | Berklee College of Music
The Guitar Department at Berklee offers the most comprehensive guitar education in the world. We provide private instruction, labs, and ensembles in all styles, including jazz, blues, rock, metal, funk, fingerstyle, classical, world music, microtonal music, and the avant-garde.
Studying Guitar at Berklee - Berklee College of Music
Guitar ensembles explore a wide variety of genres and include performance opportunities at the end of each semester. Our faculty create the curriculum for these courses based on their professional experience.
Bachelor of Music in Performance: Guitar - Berklee College of Music
Demonstrate technical proficiency on the guitar, including aural skills (tuning, call and response, hearing changes, etc.), good technique and playing habits (posture, hand position), and the development of expression and tone color.
Guitar Courses - Berklee College of Music
In-depth approach to guitar performance, with each section of the course dedicated to signature repertoire and vocabulary of specific artists. Students will focus on the artist's harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic styles.
Principal Instruments: Guitar - Berklee College of Music
All students at Berklee College of Music enter with a principal instrument. The Guitar Department offers instruction in all styles, including jazz, blues, rock, metal, funk, fingerstyle, classical, world music, microtonal music, and the avant-garde. Every major requires four semesters of private instruction, labs, and ensembles on this instrument.
Faculty - Berklee College of Music
For General Inquiries contact guitar@berklee.edu. For Guitar Department business contact the staff.
Private Instruction - Guitar: All Levels - Berklee College of Music
All Berklee students take private instruction levels one through four on their principal instruments. Performance majors continue on to do levels five through eight. The Guitar Department at Berklee encourages students to experiment with all styles to improve skills and develop instrumental craft.
Tomo Fujita | Berklee College of Music
"In my private lessons and blues/funk labs, I teach fundamental techniques for playing good music—getting a good tone from the guitar and keeping a good rhythm. But I try to teach something more valuable for the future, so I really emphasize feeling.
Practice Exercises - Berklee College of Music
Academics With an array of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as summer, international, and precollege offerings, Berklee College of Music provides options for students of all levels to explore and achieve their artistic, academic, and career potential. Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs
Brooks Robertson - Berklee College of Music
Publications and instructional courses include Fingerstyle Rolls: Banjo Rolls for Fingerstyle Guitar (2021), Travis-Picking Bootcamp (2020), Fingerstyle Toolbox (2020), Take 5: Boom Chick (2019), and 30 Fingerpicking Patterns You MUST Know (2019), among many others