MARTINEZ — On Sept. 26, the mother of a 7-year-old San Ramon girl was saying goodbye to her daughter’s guitar teacher, 69-year-old Rex Bell, when the young girl asked her teacher a parting question.

So, your little one has aspirations of becoming a rock star, and despite not knowing your dreadnoughts from your Stratocasters, you now find yourself scrolling through pages and pages of entry-level ...

The Music City excursion will take place from October 23 to October 26. Besides the guitar lesson, the contest winner will be treated to round-trip domestic airfare to Nashville; a three-night stay in ...

Guitars are everywhere. If you don’t play one, then chances are you’ve at least heard a one – on the radio, on the street corner, in a park on a summer afternoon, at your cousin’s wedding, on open mic ...

Conjoint parent-child music lessons can be a recipe for success. Source: Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that parents who play an instrument themselves often approach ...

MARTINEZ — Seventeen years after he was convicted of molesting two teen girls during music lessons, a Bay Area guitar teacher has pleaded no contest to molesting three new victims in a plea deal that ...