About

Hello, my name is Mike Deiure and I wanted to introduce myself and give you some of my background as a guitar teacher and musician. I’ve been teaching guitar and piano professionally for over 15 years now and I have worked with literally hundreds of students. With this amount of experience I have come to find the necessary things for students to focus on learning so that they are interested in playing the guitar but also see fast results so that they will want to continue to learn and get better.

I started to study guitar at the age of thirteen after I had studied piano for eight years. It was players such as Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, and John Petrucci that first got me into really wanting to learn how to rock on guitar and be the best I could be at it. I studied classical guitar for a few years at The State University of New York at Fredonia and then transferred into the Music Industry program at SUNY Oneonta. I began teaching full time right out of college and have been doing it ever since.

After years of trial and error I have been able to successfully find a style of teaching that has been proven to work with ALL of my students. As students progress and get better, they will always want to go in their own direction — however if a solid understanding of the basics has not been built, they will find it difficult to play and write the music that they are most passionate about. In Rock Guitar Power, I focus on creating and building that basic foundation so that you are able to play and understand all the things that make up rock music.

Another aspect of my career that has provided me with a lot of insight as a guitar teacher is my involvement as a recording engineer and record producer. This is where I learned just how important it is to have good playing technique and control of your instrument. There is no better way to gauge how well you progress as a player than by recording yourself and listening to how you sound after you play something. I’ve also kept busy over the years as a performer — playing for other people is, in my opinion, the best part of learning guitar, because it gives you the opportunity to show others what you have been working so hard to achieve.

By now you can probably figure out that I am very passionate about guitar and teaching others how to play and have fun with the instrument. My biggest wish has been that I could teach and reach out to more people, and Rock Guitar Power has enabled me to do just that. This program is an exact clone of what I do with my students who study privately with me. If it works for them, it will work for you — guaranteed!