“I was at a point with my guitar playing that I felt that I was in a bit of a rut. I was tired of playing the same music over and over again and not really knowing where to go next. I decided that I needed some lessons with an experienced guitarist. I remembered meeting at one point the Director of the Music program at Folkway Music in Waterloo, Nick Russell. I approached Nick, a highly accomplished player, about lessons and we set up weekly Zoom lessons.
So for over a year I took lessons from Nick and learned tremendously from those Zoom sessions. Nick has an excellent teaching style and grounds the music in an approach that is manageable and enjoyable. As a result of my Zoom lessons, I am now pursuing new songs with more confidence. The added bonus is that I have also gained new insights in terms of music theory and music production. Without a doubt, I have surpassed my initial goals and it is thanks to the generous and engaged teaching style.”

“Lessons with Nicholas Russell are very useful and helped me a lot for college. These lessons taught many various things such as how to improvise using different scale tones and chord tones. He has taught me how to properly substitute chords and taught me different voicing for chords. He has also helped me expand my knowledge of music theory and understanding of chord progressions and how to improvise over them. His teaching methods are spectacular and he has developed my ear training to a level that I did not expect. His lessons got me into one of the best programs for music in Ontario, so I thank him for that.”