Riley Merlino is a guitarist, bassist, drummer, songwriter, producer and engineer born in Tacoma, WA and raised in Woodinville, WA. He started playing drums at age 10 after his dad showed him Led Zeppelin and he saw the movie School of Rock. He then began playing guitar at the age of 14, to be able to write r…

Ben Merrill is a college graduate from Pacific Lutheran University with degrees in Business and Music. He is a professional and academic musician with over a decade of musical experience. Ben has performed across the board from jazz, to classical music, from musical theater to operatic music. Ben has sang wi…

Seattle Guitar Teacher Jesse Miller started playing guitar when he was eight years old, and began writing music soon thereafter. He has studied jazz and classical guitar under Fred Hamilton at the University of North Texas and spent a summer in the Volta region of Ghana studying West African drumming and rhyt…

Warren Murray is a multi-instrumentalist who first studied music starting at age 12 by taking private guitar lessons. By middle school, Warren formed a rock band with other players and began studying with many well known teachers including Tracy Moore and instruction with Roger Fishers, the guitarist and fou…

David was born into a musical family, where he grew up in the Toronto, Ontario region of Canada. His Dad was a High School band director and taught music at the High School level for decades. David always found it fantastic when new instruments arrived (trombones, euphoniums, saxophones, bass guitars etc…so…

Nathan is an acoustic and electric guitarist, electric bass player, and pianist out of Shoreline, WA with well over a decade of experience. Nathan enjoys music because of its therapeutic and cognitive behavioral benefits. Music has been such a big part of his life since day one. Both parents played musical in…

Kane Recardo is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/songwriter, and private piano and guitar instructor from Seattle, WA. Kane began playing music at age 5, receiving lessons from his grandmother who taught regular private piano lessons in her home, where Kane lived. This constant proximity to music instilled a…

Ben Risemberg is a teaching and performing multi-instrumentalist who encourages students to have fun and work hard. He understands that having fun with music lessons, combined with active practice, and displaying artistic expression to others, helps to build confidence, communication skills, and helps the ind…

Duane Rough is a dedicated and passionate music teacher who believes that playing music should be fun! His teaching style is a blend of the technical aspects of technique and theory, with an equal focus on performance aspects. He enjoys nothing more than playing music himself, and aims to share his love of th…

Francis is a guitar and bass instructor who has an interest in a wide variety of musical traditions, spanning from the music of Brazil to Ragtime Piano to Indian classical music. He finds joy in helping others realize their musical goals, whether thats learning finger picking patterns, improvising or even so…