Study In Person/Face to Face or Online via Facetime, Skype or Zoom. Landon Mattox is offering lessons in Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Ukulele and Bass Guitar. Are you looking for other kinds of music lessons? Please visit http://www.honolulumusiclessons.com for information about lessons in piano, voice, drums, violin, viola, cello, double bass, composition and music therapy at Honolulu Music Lessons Workshop. Landon teaches all lessons at Honolulu Music Lessons Workshop at The Varsity Building 1110 University Ave Suite 505. Free parking is provided and all study materials, music charts and resources are provided to students in a digital format at the end of each lesson. As students progress in their mastery of the basics, they can choose to focus on multiple styles of music including rock, classical, jazz, blues, pop, reggae, Latin styles, Hawaiian, Hawaiian slack key guitar, country, acoustic finger-style, metal, improvisation, music theory, you name it. Students are encouraged but not required to learn to read music notation and to participate in student recitals. Please feel free to call, text, email Landon for more information, questions or to schedule lessons.

Landon’s teaching method is modern, adaptable to students’ specific needs and isn’t limited to specific styles of music. Landon teaches music as an art in an encouraging and patient way and focuses on the skills students need to pursue their own specific or diverse music interests by emphasizing music fundamentals and basic skills that are needed to be resourceful and to study music independently and proficiently and play with creativity and expressiveness. Landon makes use of a vast library of music resources and online resources, multimedia, apps and other technology to enhance the teaching and learning experience and to get students the sheet music, transcriptions and resources they need for success.

Landon Mattox has over 20 years extensive experience teaching electric and acoustic guitar, ukulele and bass guitar, music theory, ear training, and improvisation to students of all ages and skill levels. He teaches the guitar and ukulele classes at Kapiolani Community College and is the owner of Honolulu Music Lessons Workshop which provides lessons in guitar, ukulele, bass guitar, piano, voice, drums, violin, viola, cello and double bass and also provides music therapy services. He has 2 Master’s degrees in Jazz Studies and Music Education from the University of North Texas in addition to a Bachelor of Arts in Music with emphasis in Jazz Studies degree from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Landon’s teaching method has evolved from a very diverse array of teaching experience including teaching private lessons over 2 decades, teaching at public and private schools and churches in Honolulu and Oahu and International Schools in China to children of all ages and adults. He was also a lecturer in the jazz studies program at Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou, China for about 4 years from 2007-2010 and helped to establish that conservatory’s first Jazz Studies program. He has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for the World Music Course on the topic of early African-American music research.