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Private Instruction

Personal instruction tailored to your areas of need is the fastest way to grow as a player through weekly or bi weekly lessons, in person or online. 

Contact me for a 20 minute free evaluation of your playing and we’ll see if we’re a good fit – and I’ll recommend your ‘next step’ instruction. 

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All Levels Welcome

From Beginners to Professional Players

With over 40 years of teaching experience I will tailor our lessons to provide for your quickest growth as as we cover a wide variety of areas destined to bring you to your top potential.

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Topics Covered in Private Lessons

Primary Skills

Get started with restructuring your technique where necessary, whether it be adjusting form or movement, scale or arpeggio speed, through Phaser I, Primary Skills Development.

Secondary Skills

There are skills that can elevate amateur playing to a professional level such as the use of vibrato, the ability to play legato, to balance melody, etc as covered in my Phase II – Secondary Skills. 

Practice Directives

Learn to apply a series of practice directives designed to expand your abilities and integrate them into repertoire through my Phase II – Practice Directives

Musicianship

I believe every student is a master musician and that its my job to unlock those skills through the studying of phrasing, articulation and the expressive tools of dynamics, rhythm and timbre.

Practice Management

As a member of the Kritzer Studio you will have a detailed practice plan that will help you keep a wide variety of repertoire scheduled with Practice Directives while maintaining your Technique and Secondary Skills.

Performing Skills

Performance anxiety can be a tragic impediment to the expression of your natural abilities. Let me show you how to overcome the effects of performance anxiety with specially designed practice techniques.

Stress-free moving

Become Part of the Kritzer Studio Learning Organization

The quality of my students  help provide me with valuable information both in applying new concepts and learning new concepts from my students. Become part of the Kritzer Studio Learning Organization

  • Be on the ground floor of new learning concepts
  • Contact me with questions
  • Access to Classical Guitar Immersion
  • Meet your fellow students in monthly meetings

Get Excited to Become Part of the Kritzer Studio

How to sign up for lessons

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Schedule your Free Evaluation

Contact me for a 20 minute free evaluation of your playing and we’ll see if we’re a good fit – and I’ll recommend your ‘next step’ instruction. 

2

Schedule your Lesson

Check for availability, pricing and lesson policies. We can either schedule your lessons or if my schedule is full put you on my waitlist. Waitlist members get access to my workshops and library of articles and videos. 

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Get Ready to Improve your Playing

Free Evaluation

In just a few lessons you’ll begin to feel a difference in your playing. In a few months those around you will hear a difference!

My Most Important critics

What my Students Say

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After thirty years of playing, four years in a guitar performance degree program, and ten years of lessons and master class workshops I was still using a composite of haphazard methods. Scott imparts a proven, systematic, and practical way of learning and performing repertoire.
Peter JespersonPrivate Student
After just one lesson with Scott, I could already tell that my classical guitar technique was going to radically improve over the next few months.
Jake ShearerGrad Student, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University
It's been another great year of exploring the art of playing and learning the classical guitar under your pedagogical leadership and expertise.
Paul KetchamPrivate Student
As an adult self taught guitarist I found Scott's instruction to be critical in filling in the gaps in my technique, interpretative skills and general musicianship. I've dramatically improved my understanding of music, fundamental skills, consistency and performance capability.
Mike GoverPrivate Student
Scott Kritzer’s method is expert, his private teaching is top notch, his workshops are rewarding, his annual Classical Guitar Immersion is fun!
Lee HessPrivate Student
I would highly recommend anyone interested in classical guitar to study with Scott and learn about his method. There is a wealth of information for guitarists of all levels. Beginner guitarists will be able to build up a solid technical foundation from scratch, and more advanced players will have the opportunity to make adjustments to their technique that will permanently alleviate issues and revitalize their ability to create music.
Jake ShearerGraduate Student, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University
Your musicianship is virtuosic and inspires the spirit the dwells in all who hear your playing.
Paul KetchamPrivate Student
Taking lessons from Scott is very much like being a graduate student in a professor's lab. He embodies the philosophy that a musician should be simultaneously a performer, a teacher, and a student. Scott is deeply committed to innovating and systematizing his teaching and practicing pedagogy.
Tom PagePrivate Student
The Kritzer Method for advancing the technique of classical guitar (CG) playing has been the one ingredient missing in my CG education. After years of independent study as well as the past two years spent with an international on-line academy I realized that I needed the help of a dedicated CG professional to guide me away from the oftentimes ingrained technique flaws which were limiting my ability to express myself musically.
Michael FallonPrivate Student
More than anything, Scott is a consummate musician, and the prospect of progressing along his musical path is my constant motivation to practice and perform.
Tom PagePrivate Student
Personable, persuasive, and with a great sense of humor, Scott works with me towards our common goals, interpretation, expression, and enjoyment.
Michael FallonPrivate Student
Scott is an avid reader and applier of the scientific literature on learning and acquiring expertise and on physiology as it relates to musical performance and guitarists' health and injuries. Everything he has you do as a student he does himself as part of his own practice.
Tom PagePrivate Student
As a musician, Scott is a wonderful reminder of why I decided to choose guitar in the first place. As an instructor, his focus on the student, and patience meeting each of us where we are is truly amazing. I have no idea how he does it. And as far as his spot-on, yet wacky metaphors, you’ll just have to take a lesson and hear them for yourself.
Carolyn DevinePrivate Student
Following along with the "practice along" videos and written instructions in the online method and working through the chapters of Primary Skills Development provided a level of understanding that could not be attained through the exercises alone.
Jake ShearerGraduate Student, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University
Scott Kritzer specializes in teaching the techniques of mastering CG performance. Scott’s curriculum is comprehensive and our biweekly private lessons are focused on how to improve my technique using his vast knowledge and experiences.
Michael FallonPrivate Student
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John DoeCEO
I so appreciate that Scott has a plan and a vision for the whole course of acquiring basic (and advanced) skills. So many teachers just wing it. I can make myself do Scott’s exercises because he is so clear about why we are doing them. I need that understanding to motivate me. Scott is a thinking person’s teacher. Scott practices (literally) what he preaches. He is on the journey with us, or rather, us with him. The human hand has 27 joints. Even if each of those joints could only be in three positions (flexed, extended and midrange) that is over 7 trillion positions the hand can be in. But Scott has reduced that to only a manageable number of movement patterns found in playing classical guitar that we need to master. He makes the impossibly complex, masterable, and gives us the methods to do it.
Tom Page
Scott’s method is the first and only one I’ve encountered in my 14 years of lessons, whether online or in-person, that has helped me begin to correct and improve, step-by-step, my right hand technique. His vast knowledge of and ability to clearly explain, in layman’s terms, the mechanics involved, along with easy-to-follow demonstration and play-along videos and exercises, has made me truly aware, for the first time, of what my right hand is supposed to be doing and why. In my experience, Scott’s Primary Skills Development Method is unique within classical guitar pedagogy - I only wish I had discovered it sooner!.
Mark Campbell

You ask, I’ll answer

Private Instruction in the Kritzer Studio is different than most and it’s not for every classical guitar player. If you’re still not sure about signing up for your Free Evaluation check out these FAs.

Probably less than you think; about an hour a day should do it, 5 days a week. As a private student you’ll get a detailed practice plan that helps manage technique and repertoire practice efficiently.

I take beginners through professionals. I love teaching and if you love learning then we’ll be a good match!

I teach every other week so you’ll get two (sometimes three) lessons per month. My online material is integrated into your lessons so you can update your technique practice weekly as initially required. All other practice is updated every two weeks. 

Yes. I respond to emails within two days, usually sooner. You can send me a video demonstrating your questions. And you can always attend my Saturday Online Workshops. 

Lessons are $100 per, $200 per month. The price includes a Rosewood Membership which gives you access to Phase I, Primary Skills, FretMarker Archives and my Online Workshops. 

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