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Guitar Lessons Asheville

The Rock Academy coordinates guitar lessons with The Music Academy of Asheville depending on your skill level. The Rock Academy teaches performance skills and provides kids and adults an encouraging place to learn to rock on stage. It’s sister organization, The Music Academy of Asheville, is the actual music school where guitar lessons will be scheduled.

Guitar Chords and Scales

If you find that you need to learn new guitar chords to improve your playing, our guitar teachers will help you with a structured, methodical approach to integrating new chords into your repertoire. Learning new guitar chords and scales can improve your songwriting skills and allow you to effortlessly lay down some lead guitar when auditioning for bands. Getting you ready to perform in a band is what the Rock Academy is all about. Whether you are interested in Acoustic Guitar or Electric Guitar, our music teachers can help you with every aspect of your instrument.

Bass Guitar Lessons

Good songs need a bottom end to keep the groove consistent. Our instructors will make sure you understand the principles of playing bass, working tightly with the drum to lay down the low end. Bass lessons can help you understand the equipment you’ll need and how to hold the beat steady and funk it up when you need to.

Teen and Kid Guitar Lessons

We work with kids from age 4 – 15 teaching them basic guitar lessons, covering beginner guitar chords and scales and preparing them to perform rock songs they love on stage with our Opening Act band.

Guitar Instructors

Abby Bryant

Guitar ,
Piano ,
Violin ,
Voice

Hailing from just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, singer and multi-instrumentalist Abby Bryant began singing and playing in church as a young child. After a few years of honing her own path as a touring musician and fronting her band Abby Bryant & The Echoes, the group has cemented their presence as a regional powerhouse with a debut album boldly rooted in the world of vintage-inspired southern soul rock. Over the past five years Abby has served as educator in ESL, voice, piano, and guitar...

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Tim Doyle

Guitar ,
Jazz Band ,
Metal Band ,
Music Theory ,
Opening Act Band ,
Rock Academy

Tim is a 23-year veteran of the guitar and holds degrees from the University of North Carolina Greensboro and Indiana State University. He has worked as a professional performer and music educator in Austin, Texas, and throughout the Midwest for the past fifteen years. Tim is also an active composer, and recorded and produced a CD of original compositions for guitar in 2009. As an educator, Tim has worked as a private guitar instructor and served as the director of the Terre Haute Guitar Club,...

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Emily Easterly

Guitar ,
Ukulele

Guitar teacher and singer/songwriter Emily Easterly first got serious about being a musician when she discovered the Beatles at age 13. Writing and recording on a 4- track tape machine in her bedroom was the most important of activities at the time. She has since self- released four albums of her own material (take a listen at www.emilyeasterly.com) and has toured and played all over the US. Allmusic.com called her work “a mix of D.I.Y. attitude, guitar proficiency, and songwriting skills...

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Jared Gardner

Electric Bass ,
Guitar ,
Mandolin ,
Upright Bass

As a multi-instrumentalist well versed in many playing styles, Jared Gardner draws from a diverse variety of experiences, from symphony orchestras to rock ‘n roll, bluegrass string bands to aleatoric performances with no musical guardrails. His career as a performer has brought him to stages all across the US and internationally, and he has shared the stage with legendary musicians such as Kenny Werner, Tony Trishka, Lake Street Dive and Chris Eldridge. Over 2 decades of teaching string instruments...

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Ashley Heath

Electric Bass ,
Guitar ,
Voice

Ashley Heath continues winning over Americana lovers’ hearts with her voice of “velvet soul,” driving her career forward and playing music full-time since spring of 2015. The Asheville-based singer and guitar player continues pushing her sophomore album “Where Hope Never Dies,” which delivers her signature blend of sultry blues and anthemic rock n’ roll, tied in with messages of hope and perseverance to uplift her fans during this trying time. Pre-Pandemic, Heath delivered...

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