About

Los Angeles Guitar Academy offers a comprehensive musical education program for students of all ages and levels in the Los Angeles area, providing professional guitar lessons to residents of Downtown L.A., Pasadena, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Alhambra, Glendale, Culver City, Burbank, La Canada, and nearby communities.

Our world-class teachers, accomplished concert artists in their own right, combine their performance experience with a profound gift for teaching, guiding our students to reach their untapped potential, creating in each student his or her unique style through one-on-one instruction. Our instructors have a combined teaching experience of more than forty years. Each of the faculty members who will instruct you have at least ten years of experience teaching guitar lessons. We have studios in Pasadena, Hollywood, Van Nuys, and downtown Los Angeles for your convenience.


Our teaching philosophy blends the best of the traditional masters such as Fernando Sor, Francisco Tarrega, Dionisio Aguado, Andres Segovia; with the influence of modern masters such as David Russell, John Williams, Julian Bream, Pepe Romero, James Smith, and Scott Tennant, as well as Flamenco guitar virtuosos such as Paco de Lucia, Paco Pena, and Pepe Habicuela. We provide both classical guitar and Flamenco guitar lessons, as well as a wide variety of supplementary classes. See our curriculum page for a full listing of these classes.


Guitar lessons for all levels from beginner to advanced


We offer guitar lessons for all levels of students with various musical backgrounds.


-Advanced/Professional Level Guitarists:

Fine-tune your technical skills, and take your artistry to a whole new level as you prepare for competitions, auditions, recital tours, and recording sessions.
Guitar lessons at the Los Angeles Guitar Academy prepare students for the rigorous admission standards required by some of the most prestigious schools and conservatories, including University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Manhattan Conservatory of Music, Pepperdine University, University of California Riverside, and Northwestern University. Former LAGA students have successfully pursued both master’s and bachelor’s degree programs, as well as graduate diploma and performance certificate programs.

The classical guitar lessons and Flamenco guitar lessons at the Academy prepare students for national and international competitions and festivals, as well as for auditions for conservatories and music schools. Other advanced students have received music internships as a result of their training at the Los Angeles Guitar Academy.

Professional musicians, whether recording artists, stage artists, ensemble musicians, composers and arrangers have all benefited from our unique approach to guitar lessons, which incorporates aural-kinesthetic concepts and disciplines such as the Alexander Technique.

-Intermediate Level Guitarists:

Our intermediate-level classes and lessons will transform your musicianship, propelling you to even higher levels of artistry. For those of you who have future professional goals, your guitar lessons will contain instruction on arranging your own music, which will enrich your repertoire and will provide you valuable experience in music theory and composition.


-Beginners:

Professional guitar lessons will help you achieve the technical ability to perform music in your favorite styles, while building confidence and enjoyment. Our unique teaching system will make the first stages of learning the instrument fun and easy. Traditional methods used in classical guitar lessons are combined with Flamenco and Latin forms in order to supplement your technical skills. Building your technique, in turn, will make playing your guitar infinitely more enjoyable. Guitar lessons will cease being a chore, and become something you eagerly anticipate!


-Music Enthusiasts:

Learn to play the guitar as a relaxing hobby. Once a basic technical foundation is formed, you will create your own curriculum with your teacher’s guidance, giving you a fully personalized repertoire consisting of only the pieces and styles that you want to play.

In January 2009, Los Angeles Guitar Academy launched its online guitar lesson platform, LAGA Online. From its humble beginnings as a simple repertoire database for our in-studio classes and private lessons, our online options expanded into a stand-alone program which has attracted students from all over North America. For the first time, LAGA students could now enjoy learning to play the guitar from the comfort of their own homes.