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Tracking Your Progress

The progress tracker is a system that helps you advance your musical skills from beginner level to a more expert level. Jeff’s Guitar & Steel allows you to build your skill level incrementally, so that you don't feel overwhelmed or lacking in knowledge as you progress. Advance from beginner to intermediate to expert with a curriculum designed to increase your Guitar and Pedal Steel skills through an extensive repertoire of songs licks, solos, and lessons!

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Pedal Steel

Expert

Solidify knowledge of the A, B, and C Pedals, as well as all of the knee levers, increase arranging concepts, chord extension concepts, develop more advanced solos, intros, licks.

Intermediate

Increase your voicing knowledge of major and minor chords, the C pedal function, develop more intermediate solos, intros, and licks, continue to develop right hand techniques.

Beginner

Learn your basic grips and right hand technique. The A and B pedal, major and minor chords, the open and closed major scale through a repertoire of basic solos, intros, and licks.

Guitar

Expert

Learn barre-chords, more advanced fingerpicking and flatpicking styles. Increase your  knowledge of chord theory, lead play, and arranging through a more advanced song repertoire.

Intermediate

Increase your right hand technique with more interesting strumming patterns while developing a song repertoire that include basic scales, arpeggios, alternating bass patterns, and fingerpicking.

Beginner

Learn how to strum common open chords, play easy melodies, learn to play basic songs from multiple genres. Develop basic right hand technique and repertoire to get you comfortable with the guitar.

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Who is Jeff Rady?

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Hi Everyone, I"m Jeff Rady, I'm a guitarist and a pedal steel player in Denver, Colorado, my hometown. I have a degree in Professional Music from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and have been playing guitar for 18 years! I'm interested in all kinds of American roots music from folk and country to blues and rock and roll. This website serves not only as a teaching platform but as a tribute to my devotion to music in general. I've designed this website mainly for the very beginner player to advance to a more expert level. This journey takes a lot of patience and lots and lots of time, but it can be a really enjoyable one if you stick with it!. I hope you enjoy this site and your instrument of choice, with me as your guide!
Sincerely, Jeff Rady

Blog

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Testimonials

Amanda Hamm, Denver, CO
"I have been looking for years for a teacher like this! His patience and humor carried me through the times when I usually got frustrated and would stop my guitar practice. Jeff's fine balance of fun and focus kept me looking forward to my lessons!"

Bill Schaefer, Denver, CO
"Jeff's good-natured personality makes it easy to want to learn from him.  Beneath his friendly, witty and humorous outer shell lies a musician with an amazing depth of knowledge who's able to teach in an understandable manner to those of us with varied abilities."

Todd Whalen,  Denver, CO
"Jeff's the best!  He meets you at your level and patiently brings you along til the light turns on and the fingers find the right progression.  Jeff is a lot fun to learn with and he has light a hearted approach... yet he keeps you progressing. I'll give him full credit next time I'm rocking it at Red Rocks."