Michael Tobias's teaching philosophy is simple: Regardless of an individual’s age or experience level, Tobias firmly believes that the ability to play and learn music is accessible to us all. Mastery begins in the mind and we are only limited by what we cannot imagine possible. Over time, Tobias has developed teaching methods that facilitate the ease of learning and encourage the mastery of a student's instrument. He had begun playing the guitar very recently and was discovering Music Making to be a simple and basic process, not at all a complex one.įor more than 20 years, Michael Tobias has been building upon his early observation that playing music, if approached properly, is a fundamental ability, common to all of us. "No you can't," came the predictable rebuttal.Īlthough the author of Tobias's T-shirt intended it to be a parody of marketing schemes that appeal to people's desire for instant gratification, Michael Tobias understood that the message on the T-shirt was actually true. "Yes you can," replied Tobias, an aspiring guitarist. Upon seeing this T-shirt, Tobias's classmates would often challenge him: "You can't learn the guitar in 15 minutes!" Underneath the non-descript guitarist was a caption proclaiming "This Could Be You!" When Michael Tobias was in the 6th grade, one of his favorite T-shirts bore the bold slogan "Learn to play the guitar in 15 minutes!" This white T - Shirt was illustrated with a-black ink drawing of an individual playing the acoustic guitar whose face was whitened out. Musical styles taught include: Jazz, Blues, Rock, Metal, Hip-Hop, Funk, Folk, County, Americana, Hawaiian, Pop, Classical and World music. He has taught students from age 6 to 60+ with beginning to advanced skill levels and a wide variety of musical tastes. Michael Tobias has over 20 years experience as a musician. Later, at the University of Georgia in Athens, Tobias broadened his study of music and explored the great American Jazz composers such as Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker & Bill Evans. Through playing classical music, Tobias learned the nuances of finger-style guitar and gained a high level of technical proficiency with the instrument. He studied the great Spanish & European composers such as Francisco Tarrega, Fernando Sor and Johann Sebastian Bach. In his formative years, Tobias was classically trained as a guitarist. Michael Tobias is originally from Georgia, where the region's native sound of wailing blues guitar called Tobias to pick up his first “six-string axe” and play. Please click the link to check out his students’ reviews on To read testimonials about Tobias’s teaching, His current students live in Sacramento, Davis, Roseville, Woodland, Dixon, Elk Grove, Granite Bay, and other surrounding areas. Tobias teaches at Watermelon Music in Davis & CB Music Studios in Roseville. Michael Tobias offers private music lessons in Acoustic, Electric, and Slide Guitar Bass Harmonica and Ukulele. Guitar Lessons Bass Lessons Harmonica Lessons Ukulele Lessons To inquire by e-mail about music lessons with Michael Tobias, please select a link for: Guitar, Bass, Harmonica, & Uke Lessons - Sacramento, Davis, Winters, Elk Grove, Woodland, Dixon, Vacaville, California, CA
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