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Learn to Play Guitar With Tomas Cataldo
Acoustic guitar player Tomas Cataldo's guitar lessons are geared toward the intermediate player. Tomas teaches you a variety of chords, rhythms and styles for the acoustic guitar, including Funk strumming.

Learn how to spell triads, and how to play augmented and diminished triads, major, minor and dominant 7th chords. Tomas discusses adding color tones 6 and 9 and suspended chords. Learn the relative minor scale, primary minor chords and the minor blues, power chords with three fingers, a movable shuffle Blues, Barre chords, and Blue notes. His lesson about Funk strumming is a great addition to the styles commonly taught on an acoustic guitar.

Preview Tomas' lessons.



recordings: Hundreds of jingles (Coke, Coors, Ford, Keds, etc.)

books: (National Guitar Workshop Publications/Alfred)
Guitar Licks Encyclopedia

gear: Fender Strat
Brian Moore i913
Steel and nylon Takamine acoustic guitars



To stay in touch with the reason he was interested in music in the first place, Tomas is spending a lot of time focusing on composition and performing these days. He has played original music in the NYC area for the past ten years. He is currently working on various independent projects and is planning on releasing a CD within the next year. With hundreds of TV and radio ads behind him, be sure to listen for his guitar playing again when you’re watching television.



WorkshopLive interview with Tomas Cataldo,
coming soon...

Started: Age 10 in 1981
Education: BA, Music Berklee College of Music
Styles
: rock, fingerstyle, rock fusion
Instruments: Guitar, bass

visit Tomas at www.tomascataldo.com