Teaching

Michael Stadler says:

I took up music at the age of six. Instead of the fiddle or guitar I wanted, I was given an accordion. The reason for this, however, was a good one: the best teacher of kids in my home town taught only accordion.  Still, a broken arm at age eight gave me the escape I craved and eventually set free my lifelong affinity for strings.

While I have played professionally for more than forty years, I have also taught for more than thirty such things as:

• guitar, acoustic and electric (fingerstyle, flatpicked, clawhammer, lead, rhythm, open-tuned, beginning to advanced)
• mandolin (rhythm & lead in a variety of styles, beginning to advanced)
• old-time banjo (clawhammer, not Bluegrass Scruggs style & its offshoots, beginning to advanced)
• fiddle (old-time, Bluegrass, swing, blues, beginning to intermediate)
• mountain dulcimer (fingerstyle or picked, fingered or using a noter, beginning to advanced)

I've taught private students & classes. Private lessons are in the home, mine or yours; classes have often been at schools, festivals & music camps, but I also provide workshops and group classes in private homes, usually followed by house concerts.

I've also taught at the California Coast Music Camp & Fiddle Kids.