Berklee College of Music

Understand the "science" of music. Master practical musicianship skills. Read and analyze music scores; learn to conduct, to read the printed page with minimal effort and speed. Hear the score in your head when you read it; reproduce it vocally outloud! Document your musical ideas from your head to paper, without an instrument at your disposition. Memorize lengthy printed musical scores with minimal effort. Transpose written scores into different keys; harmonize with chords and chord progressions.

Pitches, Scales, Intervals, Chords, Meter & Rhythm, Conducting, Ear-Training & Sight-Singing, Solfège, Score-Reading, Dictation, Transposition, Chord Progressions / Roman Numerals, Form & Analysis, Applied Harmony (Diatonic & Chromatic), Keyboard Harmony

With over two decades in the music industry, Frank Axtell is a renowned guitarist, composer and teacher and is a major contributor to the south Florida jazz-fusion scene. He performs with his own jazz ensemble, The Frank Axtell Quartet. He toured extensively in the mid 80s along the Atlantic coast and Europe & has recorded on the West Coast at San Franciscos The Record Plant. Thankfully he has decided to make south Florida his home.

Frank attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has always taken his continuing course of musical evolution seriously, learning from prominent guitarists Vincent Bredice, Joe Diorio, Scott Henderson, and Jack Wilkins. In 1990-91 Frank served on the faculty at Miami Dade Community College. He has performed guitar clinics and teaches guitar and electric bass at Digital Soundscapes Studios, West Palm Beach. Currently, with over 40 private students, Frank owns and operates his own multimedia recording studio, Digital Soundscapes where he produces many local artists in addition to composing and engineering his own projects.

My main concern as a teacher is to help the student become an excellent musician. It is a long process that requires hard work, a lot of passion, humility, and discipline. If you're serious about guitar or electric bass, then I'm interested in teaching you.