Mathew Sloan
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About
Hi everyone! My name is Mathew and I am a full-time fingerstyle acoustic guitarist, I have played concerts around America, the USA, Asia and Europe. I began playing guitar after watching Sungha Jung when I was 15 years old, and with hard work and lots of dedicated practice was able to spend time with his community of guitar players when I played in South Korea. I debuted in South Korea with my album Peregrine in 2017. Gaining sponsorship under Gopherwood Guitars I toured twice in Korea and later played at CAAS (Chet Atkins Appreciation Society convention) in Nashville. Being mentored by Tommy Emmanuel in my teenage years, I returned to Canada to produce my album Vision (2020) dedicated to my homeland of Thunder Bay and mentors who helped me see the world more clearly. More recently, I have been working and learning from flamenco's greatest guitarists and singers, my main mentor is El Perla whom I spent time with in Spain throughout the summer of 2022. Now at a crossroads, I finished a feature on an album in the Bossa Nova style and am working at my third album where I will take flamenco and fingerstyle for a roller-coaster ride.
I have had students of all ages (13-65) over the course of my 7 years of teaching. I held regular workshops in my hometown when time permitted to teach students about the art of songwriting for instrumental guitar and the beauty of techniques that can lay foundation to solid playing styles. I want to know what you like to listen to first, and give you the tools to support you in becoming a great player. The goal is to have fun, answer questions of why things sound the way they do and taking songs that you like to inspire you to write your own music. Each lesson ends with a review of the material and tangible ways to focus on the wrong to make it right (what a teacher should do haha). And above all else, stretching before and after playing to maintain the newly working muscles and ensure health in your playing over the long run. Good habits create good players!
I recommend students to music booklets by various artists and encourage them to buy (if they have the resources) books by Hal Leonard. A good book for beginners is Hal Leonard's Guitar Methods I