Dan is accepting a limited number of students for guitar instruction. This is your chance to study with a professional player and composer with more than 40 years experience.
Here are some brief highlights of Dan's career:
Berklee College of Music graduate (1985)
Adjunct Instructor at County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ: Intro to Recording, Intro to Music Business, Music History and Lit., Rock History and Culture and Aural Comprehension.
Served as technical editor for the book, The Complete Idiot's Guide To Home Recording, by Clayton Walnum (Alpha)
Dan's album Pastoral Memory has been awarded Best Meditation Album of 2019 by New Age Music Guide, and Best Ambient Album of 2019 by One World Music Radio.
Owner of The Torpedo Room, project recording studio since 1990
Original songs have been licensed for use by Samsung America, and on MTV Cribs and My Super Sweet 16, as well as The Joan Hamburg Show on WOR AM radio in NYC.
Appearances on many independent CD releases
Live appearances throughout the NY/NJ Metro area
Guitar Instruction: Info and Rates
Studying music will give you the opportunity to learn a great deal about yourself. It is a journey with no definitive end, and has the potential to keep you endlessly engaged. Music is a natural stress-reliever - perfect for energizing your body and mind.
While I accept students at all levels, I don't teach complete beginners. I feel that it is more cost-effective for the new student to search out a local music store, to begin their journey in that environment.
Minimum age for children is ten years old.
I look forward to making many new discoveries with you. Thanks for checking out my site.
Guitar Instruction Rates:
30 minutes $40
45 minutes $60
60 minutes $80
Together, we will create a study program that addresses your strengths and weaknesses. I will also present material that I KNOW will make you a stronger, more creative musician. Examples include:
Transcribing songs that interest you
Transcribing songs that will challenge your listening skills
Learning scales in position and vertically
Learning arpeggios in postion and vertically
Learning triads and seventh chords and their inversions
Improving time
Sight reading
Building repertoire
Improvisation
Rhythm guitar playing - an often overlooked aspect of playing guitar
Using our knowledge of scales and chords to improve songwriting
Learning how to create an effective practice schedule and sticking with it
Learning how to teach yourself new concepts and ideas
CURRENT RELEASE: Single ambient track "Leaving Cygnus" released on 8.31.20.
Read all about it here.
Released in 2019: Pastoral Memory. Awarded Best Meditation Album by New Age Music Guide and Best Ambient Album by One World Music Radio.
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Released October 23, 2022: Produced and engineered by Dan Palladino.
Released May 10, 2022: Produced and engineered by Dan Palladino.
Released May 22, 2022. Dan Palladino: acoustic guitars on "Dynamite", electric guitars on "Breathe" and "King of Masquerade".
Released in March of 2020: One Minute Wonders of the World, a project conceived by Paul Landry of New Age Music Planet. 23 composers contributed one minute of music each, to create the Corona Concerto. My piece begins at 9:43, but the entire piece is a very entertaining listen. --DP
Released in 2019. Dan Palladino: electric guitars on "Butterfly", "Must Have Been", "Kumbaya (Hunt)"
Released in 2018. Lead vocals and guitar by Dan Palladino: