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Charley’s Music Lessons
5667 Nike Dr
Hilliard, OH 43026
614-499-1162
Bio
I grew up in a one stop light town in central New York state. It was there that I started playing the trumpet in the 4th grade. I continued trumpet through my senior year, but my real love was the guitar. I started playing guitar at age 13 and was self taught at first. In High school I spent hundreds of hours learning songs from my favorite bands. Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Ramones, The Clash, Van Halen, and Ozzy to name a few. I also spent considerable time rehearsing and gigging with various local bands.
In 1983 after graduating from high school, I moved to Columbus, Ohio to study Electronics Engineering at DeVry institute of Technology. It was then that I picked up the bass and cut my teeth by learning the entire first album from the Police (Reggatta de Blanc). While finishing my degree I began to sing and learn worship music on the acoustic guitar.
In 1987 I graduated from DeVry with a Bachelor Of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology and started work at Dublin Technical Systems, Inc. In 1993 I became the volunteer worship leader at Darby Creek Church and am still leading the band there today. Church life gave me a ton of hands on experience with sound equipment as we were a portable church for 18 years. That entailed setting up sound, trouble shooting, and leading the worship for over 900 weeks before we got our own building. To date I have produced over 200 detailed chord charts. I started teaching guitar in 2000 and have since expanded to bass and ukulele. All this has helped me gain the experience needed to teach Guitar, Bass, & Ukulele Lessons In Columbus, Ohio.