PROFESSIONAL GUITAR LESSONS IN SANTA ROSA CA.

Rock * Blues * Metal * Shred

Classical * Country * Folk

Beginning to Advanced

Instrument: Electric and Acoustic Guitar

  Bill Decker has been teaching professionally since 1984 and has taught  90 to 100 students per week at Stanroy Music Center since 1988. He has given well over 80,000 individual guitar lessons, making him one of the most experienced teachers in northern California.

  Bill Decker has been playing guitar since 1968, started performing in 1972, and has opened for national acts such as Metallica, performing with Stone Crow, to Johnny Otis performing with the Decker Brother Blues Band. Also performed live for Al and Jamie Hendrix (Jimi Hendrixs father and sister) in the Hendrix Fender Guitar Competition, and has recorded numerous jingles for local advertising commercials.

  His influences include Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Johnson, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Al Dimeola, Allen Holdsworth and everything else he hears.

  Bill Decker is the author of the guitar book Scales & Modes For Guitar published in 1999. He currently performs in the band Ratpack playing Classic Rock Songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.

  All lessons are given privately, one on one at Stanroy’s Music Center,  640 4^th street, Santa Rosa, California, 95404. I teach 6 days a week, Monday through Friday, 12 to 9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Students usually take one 30-minute lesson per week. Rates are $30.00 per half-hour lesson.

To Schedule Guitar Lessons, Contact Bill Decker at 707-838-3352

Email - bdecker1@comcast.net