LaBash Guitar lessons

 My father played guitar when I was a child and it just amazed me when I heard it played. He had had a friend Jack Sartain, he could play like Chet Atkins, and that was overwhelming to hear. I tap danced as a child where I grew up in Folsom California. I was across the road from Folsom prison and lived on a ranch. I heard many musicals while I danced and our pianist was an excellent musician. I also heard a lot of old school country.  I also started listing to Wolfman Jack on the radio and got into Chuck Berry and Old school R and B.

We moved to Los Angeles and I was immersed in a wide verity of music. I finally heard jazz and I was blown away by it. At 13 years old, a man came door to door and asked if I wanted guitar lessons and I said yes. Mitchell Gross was his name and he played guitar and violin for many famous country players. My first lesson I was reading music and was lucky he did that. I went to Canoga Park high and took Harmony and theory from Dr Carl Smith. He had a Phd. in music and was a incredible musician. I had 2 years and earned the equivalent of a B.S from him. I was taking guitar lessons from Richard Mckillvery at Casselles music in San Fernando. He showed me Pent atonics and I was starting to transcribe off records. Early Eric Clapton,Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Page and Jeff Beck. This got me in a band as a kid and we were gigging at 16 for cash. In 1974 a friend of mine Paul Pattronette asked me to sit in for him on a lesson. I meet Ted Greene at 7120 Topanga Roberts Guitar it was an old Ernie Ball store. I was floored to see him play. He played chord melody and had just released his first book Chord Chemistry. I studied with him for the entire 31 years I knew him until his demise in 2005. I loved him like family and he was the best musician I had ever known. I also met and studied with his friend Dana "Chips" Hoover. Ted Greene considered him the best player he knew they both kicked my butt into shape. Around 1976 Ted got me 2 teaching jobs Casselles in San Fernando and at Roberts guitars. I had been teaching friends before that and worked with Action drum and guitar. I got tired of writing charts everyday and did about 5 for copy to hand out. I did 4 or 5 more and it went on from there "Interlock” was born 1978. I had a friend Rick Miller who did silkscreen and photoset a chart. It was so clean I did 130 more. At that time, The CAGED system came into view. I also wrote the scales out in interval numbers and had an epiphany happen. It all came into view; I finally "got it". When I showed Ted and Chips the charts, they were saying yep that is it! I went on later in life to a software named Finale. And the final editions are all done in that.  I have taught 1000's of people with it and now have a very easy to read method to work from for all.