Xavier is a chord learning machine. In less than a year of lessons, I think he’s learned more chords than any of my other ukulele students. We had to move beyond my recommended common chords and into an ukulele chord …

Ben started his guitar journey last year around Christmas time with a whole lot of “Jingle Bells” and “Smoke on the Water”. After the holidays, we set out to satisfy his craving to play and sing songs from Billy Bragg …

Our May Student of the Month is ten-year-old Ella. In her eight months of guitar lessons, she’s learned snippets of many different songs, but she fine-tuned her first full song last month, strumming chords and singing along on “Kumbaya”. Ella’s …

Here’s Max, the April Student of the Month. He’s been playing for less than a year, but his passion for music and guitar already runs deep. He takes everything I give him in lessons and runs with it, especially the …

This is Will’s second Student of the Month feature. His first time was three years ago, not long after he’d started lessons. Since then, we’ve studied Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Clark Jr., Franz Ferdinand, Ratatat, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Weezer, …

Congratulations to 11-year-old Isabella, our February Student of the Month. Izzy’s been taking lessons at Deft Digits for a year and a half, and she’s utterly obsessed with strumming chords and singing her favorite pop/dance tunes. We must have worked …

The September Student of the Month at Deft Digits is 13-year-old Lauren. She’s been taking lessons with me since last summer, learning to play some Sam Smith, John Legend, Led Zeppelin, Coldplay, and a pile of others. She also writes …

The August Student of the Month is 16-year-old Sam. He’s been playing guitar off and on for seven years, but he’s a relative newcomer to Deft Digits. He started lessons here only three months ago, and he’s plowed through every …