Music and guitar lessons:
Music education is for everyone! I teach grownups, youngsters and kids from 6 years on.
I’ve been teaching the guitar for more than 30 years at music schools and privately.
–UPDATE Jan 2024: currently, there is no more space for new private students

Foto by Klaas Fopma
Styles
- Classical guitar, acoustic and electrical guitars (beginner to conservatory level)
- Classical music
- Pop and Rock music
- Jazz and improvisation
Skills
- Guitar techniques: strumming and picking chords, using tirando and apoyando strokes, and learning how to play legato melodies
- Notes & rhythm: because being able to read music comes in handy
- Improvisation: Improvising over chord progressions is a lot of fun
- Ear training: developing an intuitive understanding of what you hear
- Music theory: harmonics and the art of voice-leading, analyse and arrange scores
Language
I teach in Dutch, English or German.
Pricing of private lessons
Duration | Occasional lesson | For students below 21 years | Series of 5 lessons | For students below 21 years |
30 min | — | — | 145 Euro | 120 Euro |
45 min | 50 Euro | 42 Euro | 210 Euro | 180 Euro |
60 min | 59 Euro | 49 Euro | 275 Euro | 240 Euro |
90 min | 85 Euro | 70 Euro | 400 Euro | 340 Euro |
[All payments in advance. Prices include 21% VAT, except for students under 21 years of age who do not pay VAT. Series of 5 lessons are valid for two months].
Try-out lesson
Contact me for a 45 min try-out lesson for 40 Euro.
Location
Lessons are held usually at my house in Amsterdam Oost or online via zoom, skype or facetime.
Foto by Verena Bitzer
Lessons at music schools
1. DJAM Music School for Jazz and Improvisation, Amsterdam West
- Main subject jazz guitar
- Jazz combos on Mondays
2. Music school Meer-Music Hoofddorp
- Guitar lessons on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
- Guitar lessons on Thursdays
[Prices at the music schools may differ from prices mentioned above.]