Learn to play the Guitar

Guitar Instructor St. Petersburg, FL

Douglas Lichterman, Guitar Instructor

Located in the heart of St. Petersburg, Florida since 2007, Douglas Lichterman is a knowledgeable, experienced private guitar instructor for adults and children ages 9+ of all levels. Get started as a beginner or advance your current guitar skills. Musical styles that Douglas teaches include rock (classic rock/alternative rock/progressive rock), heavy metal, jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass, country, funk, R&B, reggae and ska. Douglas is a patient, flexible teacher who’ll make you look forward to learning guitar.

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Learn to Play the Guitar

Learn with a veteran guitar teacher, longtime professional guitarist and co-author of two music instruction books who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Beginners Guitar Lessons

When you first come in, I will start by checking your guitar to make sure it’s in good shape for playing…

Beginners Lessons

Advanced Beginners Guitar

In this phase, we will begin learning how to play scales so that you can eventually play melodies and guitar solos…

Advanced Beginners Lessons

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Intermediate Guitar Lessons

In this phase, we’ll start learning the names of the notes on each string beginning with the E and A strings…

Intermediate Lessons

Advanced Guitar Lessons

Build your chord library with jazz chords, altered chords and polychords. Also studying chord positions for open tunings you are interested in…

Advanced Lessons

Reviews from my Guitar Students

I’m a patient and supportive teacher to all ages

My primary goal is to get you up and playing quickly so you’ll gain confidence and have the desire to practice more

Checkout some of my happy students below, I hope to see you there soon.

Had my first lesson with Doug recently and was very impressed. We covered some great sounding pieces and I learned a lot about music theory in a short space of time. Highly recommend!

Tristan Hensel-Coe

Doug is an excellent guitar teacher and even better person!

Jake Burhans

He is a great instructor! My boyfriend goes to him for guitar lessons, but he helped me with cello lessons as well. Without a doubt, I absolutely recommend him!

Marissa Linins

Great guitar instructor for all

Nichole Orr

Love his style of teaching he is overall the nicest teacher I have ever met and I look forward to every class I go to... I would suggest that if you are learning guitar to try him out as he has help me a lot in my guitar life in such a small amount of time!

Yoinky 4116

I have been taking lessons from Douglas for almost 5 years now and even though i thought i knew how to play before starting lessons, my skills have greatly improved and now feel totally comfortable across the entire neck. from just stating out to improving your skills to become a better player Douglas can take you to that next level. With comfortable one on one lessons he will make you the next great guitar player!

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Douglas is a fantastic teacher and very positive with his guidance and instruction. He makes the session very productive and he is a great player and will help you become a better player.

Brian Watson

Taking lessons with Douglas has been a game changer for me over the last year and a half. The first lesson we spent time trying to figure out where I was in my skill set. He quickly figured out where I could best focus my time and effort. He's one of the nicest guys I've met in Florida, patient and willing to work on the challenging areas that I'd usually skip or speed through. He's helped me slow down and play music. He's taken some songs that I had no idea that I could play already. I just needed someone to simplify it, break it down into more manageable pieces. This man has lived a life of music and is kind enough to share his expertise with the world. I've seen him shift from one genre to the next, effortlessly. I leave our sessions excited, wanting to rush home to work on the latest piece, lick, mode, scale etc... I was inspired to improve more in the last year than the previous 3 years combined. He's awesome.

Alden Stenberg