NYC Guitar Lessons

Josh is an incredible musician, teacher, guitar, and bass player (haven’t tried his singing lessons yet). His knowledge on both theoretic and practical aspects of music (acquired during his studies as well as several tours with world class bands) is very broad which makes his lessons fun and dynamic, a major plus for motivation and learning process.
With his «hands on» guitar lessons we quickly built a fun song’s set which was custom made for my skills level at the time. Led Zeppelin’s «Black Dog» was among one of the first songs I learned, and by then I had basic chord’s as well as a couple major scale positions knowledge.
I ve been seeing Josh (lately via Skype, which saves me 1 hour a day in commute) for the past 3.5yrs and nowadays I am actually playing with a band which goes live every now and then, despite my challenging 10+ daily work hours.
Josh was instrumental to keep me motivated all the time, I strongly recommend giving him a try.

Josh Lattanzi is an excellent guitar teacher. He is a knowledgable, skilled and accomplished musician who has really helped me make sense of what has always been a confusing instrument for me.
Josh’s style is patient, supportive and also very funny. He’s the reason I love playing guitar and didn’t get scared off by bar chords.
He also can play absolutely anything, and tailors my lessons to help me play the kind of stuff I write the best possible way. I am really grateful to be taught by him and will continue to take lessons as long as he’s teaching.

I started taking lessons with Josh shortly after college (5 years ago) I had briefly studied with a classical guitar teacher, which was completely wrong for me as a pop music songwriter. Since writing and singing are my strengths, I can sometimes feel uncomfortable playing guitar in front of people which causes me to tense up and play even worse! When I met Josh though, I felt completely relaxed because his attitude is so encouraging and nonjudgmental (even in times when it’s obvious I haven’t been practicing as regularly.) His coachings on chord voicing and substitutions have been so helpful for taking my writing to another level, and every lesson I come away feeling inspired and ready to apply the principles I’ve learned. This last thing for me is the most important, several teachers have had me do endless scales and classic songs — and of course I do technique and well-​known songs with Josh too– but personally I know the ones I will practice are ones that have to apply to me somehow and have a purpose (Im learning this song so I can learn how to do licks with hammer-​on style or this weird progression, etc. or maybe I even want to just cover the song in a set) He’s a pro and has played with the best of them for a reason … Lemonheads, Norah Jones, etc. A phenomenal teacher, would highly recommend to anyone beginner to advanced!

Where do I start?
Josh Lattanzi’s guitar lessons are simply the best. I started taking lessons with Josh after I graduated college. I was moving to New York to pursue songwriting and found Josh’s website online, deciding to try out a lesson based on his experience as a musician and a teacher.
Now, over five years later I can confidently say that if I hadn’t chosen Josh my career as a songwriter would be completely different. He goes above and beyond for his students.
I am simply incredibly lucky to have taken that initial step of a first lesson with Josh of NYC Guitar Lessons.
Josh is a patient, focused but fun teacher. His breadth and depth of knowledge of music, guitar and other instruments is extensive, and lends to thorough and thoughtful teaching.
The thing that I love most about taking lessons with Josh is that he is incredibly flexible, willing and able to tailor each student’s lessons based on what their ultimate guitar goals are. It made it easy to refer friends to him that wanted to lean basics of guitar and suggest lessons to friends in the songwriting community who had more specific goals in mind.
I really can’t speak highly enough about my experiences as an NYC guitar lessons student with Josh.