Ditmas Park Guitar offers one-on-one lessons on the following instruments:
Acoustic and electric guitar (beginner to advanced)
Electric bass (beginner to advanced)
Ukulele (beginner to advanced)
Voice (beginner to intermediate)
Piano/ keyboard (beginner to intermediate)
Play your favorite songs, read music, and learn to improvise with Gerald Edward (B.M. Berklee College of Music), a professional with 20 years of teaching experience.
Gerald mainly teaches music lessons to students living in neighborhoods around Prospect Park in South Brooklyn, including Ditmas Park, Park Slope, South Slope, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Prospect Lefferts Garden, Kensington, Windsor Terrace, Flatbush, Carrol Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus, and more.
Virtual (Zoom/ Skype/ Facetime) lesson options are available to all students, anywhere in the world!
Email or call us to get started with lessons.
WINTER 2023 RECITAL
We had great performances at our annual Winter recital at Threes Brewing on March 12th. Our talented students played a fun selection of songs, from classical to pop, musical theater to rock, and more. We enjoyed hearing their skills on guitar, bass guitar, piano, and voice.
Here were some of the song highlights from the show:
“Austrian Hymn” - Joseph Haydn
“Carry On My Wayward Son” - Kansas
“Pachelbel Canon” - Johann Pachelbel
“Come Together” - Lennon/ McCartney
“Jolene” - Dolly Parton
“Chameleon” - Herbie Hancock
“First Burn” - Lin-Manuel Miranda
“We’re Going to Be Friends” - The White Stripes
“Remember Me” - From the movie, Coco
“House of the Rising Sun” - The Animals
“Shallow” - Lady Gaga
“Clocks” - Coldplay
SPRING 2022 RECITAL
We had a fun time at our annual Spring recital on June 20th, 2022. Our students performed on guitar, piano, voice and ukulele, playing songs in multiple styles/ genres. Here are just a few selections from the program:
“Star Spangled Banner” - Francis Scott Key
“Fur Elise” - Beethoven
“Pompeii” - Bastille
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” - Green Day
“Everlong” - Foo Fighters
“Livin’ Lovin’ Maid” - Led Zeppelin
“Billie Jean” - Michael Jackson
“Morning Has Broken” - Cat Stevens
“A Thousand Years” - Christina Perri
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” - Nirvana
WINTER 2022 RECITAL
We had our annual Winter recital at Threes Brewing in Brooklyn on February 6th, 2022.
Our guitar, piano, ukulele, and voice students sounded great and performed a variety of selections. Here are a few of the songs/ pieces they performed:
“Three Little Birds” - Bob Marley
“Another One Bites the Dust” - Queen
“Estudio” - Matteo Carcassi
“Ode to Joy” - Ludwig van Beethoven
“Morning” - Edvard Grieg
“Classical Waltz” - Mauro Giuliani
“Back in Black” - AC/DC
“Autumn Leaves” - Kosma, Mercer, Prévert
“Count On Me” - Bruno Mars
“Save Your Tears” - The Weeknd
“Levitating” - Dua Lipa
“Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“A Sky Full of Stars” - Coldplay
WINTER 2020 RECITAL
On February 5th, we had another excellent recital at Threes Brewing in Gowanus. The students played a great program of music on the guitar, bass, and ukulele. Here are just a few of the selections that were performed:
“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams
“Master Blaster” by Stevie Wonder
“Shooting the Moon” by OK Go
“Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers
“Angels We’ve Heard On High” - Traditional
“Nardis” by Miles Davis
“Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen
“Heroes” by David Bowie
“You’re My Best Friend” by Queen
“Love You For a Long Time” by Maggie Rogers
WINTER 2019 RECITAL
We had 9 of our talented students perform at Threes Brewing in Gowanus on February 11th. We heard guitar, bass guitar, and ukulele from this recital class. They sounded excellent!
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