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Keith Packard - Guitarist, composer and educator

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09/11/2026

Tonight I’m at Vault Brewing playing my brand of harmonically over-complicated yet conversation/digestion friendly jazz guitar. Hope to see some of you there at this fine establishment!

09/01/2026

Are you just starting the guitar? let me help you get an EASY TO PLAY first guitar. In fact I will show you that a $50 guitar feel’s remarkably similar to a $8000 guitar. My guitar store friends fear not - because by me getting easily playable guitars to new musicians, they will invariably develop a fine taste in stringed instruments and flock to your place of business ready to max out that credit card

08/20/2026

As many of you know, I charge a small fortune for private lessons, so this fall we’re doing something a little more reasonable: an 8-week adult group guitar class, 45 minutes a week.

The first class is already almost full—I have two spots left. I’m also putting together additional groups, but I need to hear from more people before I lock in the days and times. So if you’re interested, DM me and let me know what your schedule generally looks like. Once I have enough people, I’ll start forming the groups.

This is for complete beginners. We’ll cover chords, strumming, basic finger technique, how to read TAB (we are absolutely not doing sight reading), and enough of how the guitar actually works that you’ll know what to do after the eight weeks are over. You cannot learn guitar in eight weeks, but you can learn the fundamentals and understand how to keep getting better for the rest of your life.

I’ve been playing guitar for over 30 years and teaching for almost 20, which mostly means I’ve had a very long time to figure out what beginners actually need to know—and the enormous amount of stuff they absolutely do not need to know.

You also don’t need to own a guitar yet. Over the next few weeks I can help you try some out and figure out what to buy, and you can get something perfectly usable for as little as $50. If you have to miss a class, everything will be filmed and I can help you through whatever you missed.

And unlike deciding that this is finally the year you’re going to exercise like a crazy person, it’s fairly difficult to injure yourself or get sick from learning guitar. So this seems like a much safer fall self-improvement project.

This is also just the beginning. I’m planning more specific group classes in the future—classes built around particular artists, styles, and more advanced techniques—so once you have the basics down, there will be somewhere to go from there.

07/07/2026

This is for you Bill Witzal

07/05/2026

It’s my duty to give away the secrets -

07/01/2026

Jazz guitar at Vault Brewing Friday July 3rd 8-10 pm. Keep sliding for the BIG reveal

As always - playing chill-out friend music …

Seeing me live was shown to be correlated with a lowered risk for shark attacks in a multi year meta-analysis

06/29/2026

Is your wedding in July , August , September ?

Need ceremony and/or cocktail hour ? Let’s talk

I’m experienced, I’m not a pothead , I smell good, I even smile. Can you really say no to the white wedding guitar? Don’t risk your special day with college students and friends of friends

06/25/2026

It’s true

05/15/2026

Some thoughts on thinking - and I definitely was guilty of worshiping my guitar heroes at various times. Jimi Hendrix, steve Howe, pat metheny, steve Cardenas, ben monder etc

Also, I don’t worship Musashi , just came across the poster on Temu for something like $3.76

The end is a snippet of me playing over a blues form with an imaginary band rhythm section in my head for non jazz people out there that just hear a bunch of notes

nottotallyserious

Address

7B North Bank Street
Easton, PA
18042

Telephone

+19089388696

Website

https://www.keithpackardmusic.com/

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