Our daughter has been taking weekly guitar lessons from Charlie for a few years and we couldn’t be happier.  Originally, she was only interested in learning strumming and rhythm guitar, but Charlie encouraged her to try for more and now she’s enjoying fingerpicking and lead guitar, too.  He provides the necessary resources (printed or electronic music) to enable practicing at home in between lessons.

What I find most beneficial is Charlie’s ability to take a song that a student is interested in and provide instruction on it in a way commensurate with their current skill level.  What I mean is the Internet can provide you with tab to play any song, but Charlie will present it in an appropriate way, so the student doesn’t get frustrated, e.g. “That’s a difficult chord so let’s simplify it for now by playing it this way.  But let’s also work on this other bar chord so you strengthen your fingers so you can play this other chord.”  He’ll take any song the student is interested in and provide them an appropriate version to play, which goes a long way in maintaining interest in learning.

Bottom line is the Internet is not a suitable replacement for a student who really wants to learn how to play an instrument.  If you or your kids are interested in guitar there’s no better guitar teacher in Camarillo, in my opinion.