Guitar & Piano Lessons
with Roger

  • Located in Communipaw, Jersey City.

    • 5-min walk to Liberty State Park Light rail.

    • Street parking is easy.

  • I’m happy to teach at your home in Jersey City, Hoboken, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.
    - Travel Fees apply depending on your location ($15-30)

  • Online lessons are for music theory lessons, and practice and compositional advice only.

    • $85/hour

    • optional 5-lesson package for $400 or 10-lesson package for $800.

    • $15-30 travel fees may apply for at-home lessons depending on the distance.

    • Email: rogerlinmusic@gmail.com
      for scheduling and more info

  • "May I have some of your earplugs? My sister talks too much at home."

    — James, 9-years old (guitar student)

  • "So playing F natural is now a federal crime because we're in the key of G."

    — Brant, 10-year-old (guitar, piano student)

  • "How did you do that! What you played sounds like real music."

    — William, 7-year-old (piano student)

Studio
Space

Lesson footages

Guitar student playing "Blackbird"- 1 year of study (at-home lessons) - 14 years old

Piano student playing "Minuet in G" - 1 month of study (1 semester with other teacher)- 7 years old

Guitar Lessons

In guitar lessons, we work on building techniques and fingerboard knowledge, through learning songs of your choice, or mine, in various styles.

We also transcribe riffs, solos, and tunes. Through learning those music, we move towards being able to freely improvise on the guitar.

Piano Lessons

In piano lessons, we do simple exercises to build up techniques, play pop songs with simple melodies and triads to build up repertoire, and learn the classical repertoire from Bach to Mozart, Beethoven, and others. We also learn different voicings and apply them to playing well-known jazz standards.

Composition & Music Theory

In composition and theory lessons, we look at songs we like, in various styles, and re-learn them (get deeper understanding) with a harmony system that developed from classical music and the history of the great american songbook.

We look at song forms, rhythms, melody-bass relationship, functional harmony, voice-leading, and others. And further create our own music on the shoulders of the greats.