Bill Decker
Instrument: Electric and Acoustic Guitar
Phone - 707-838-3352 Cell - 707-239-1315
Email - bill@billdecker.net
Bill Decker has been teaching professionally since 1984
and has taught
90 to 100 students per week at Stanroy Music Center
since
1988. He has given well over 80,000
individual guitar lessons, making him one of the most
experienced teachers in northern California.
Bill Decker has been playing guitar since 1968, started
performing in
1972, and has opened for national acts such as
Metallica, performing with Stone Crow, to
Johnny Otis performing with the
Decker Brother Blues Band. Also performed live for
Al and
Jamie Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix's father and sister) in the
Hendrix Fender Guitar Competition, and has recorded
numerous jingles for local advertising commercials.
His influences include Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Joe
Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Johnson, Eddie Van
Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Jeff Beck,
Jimmy Page, Al Dimeola, Allen Holdsworth and everything else he
hears.
Bill Decker is the author of the guitar book Scales & Modes
For Guitar published in
1999. He currently performs in the band "Ratpak"
playing Classic Rock Songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's.
All lessons are given privately, one on one
at Stanroy’s Music Center,
640 4th
street, Santa Rosa, California, 95404. Bill Decker Teaches 6 days a week, Monday through Friday, 12 to
9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Students usually take one 30-minute lesson per week.
Rates are $30.00 per half-hour lesson.
I have Gift Certificates at
Stanroy Music Center. Call me to pick one up.
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