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Personalized Lessons | All Ages | All Styles. Your neighborhood studio in Silver Spring, MD
Weddings · Receptions · Celebrations · Corporate Events Classical | Jazz | Flamenco | Latin | Pop | Blues
Private Guitar & Bass Lessons Tailored to Your Style. Serving Silver Spring, Woodmoor, Takoma Park & Montgomery County, MD
Serving Silver Spring, Woodmoor, Takoma Park, Chevy Chase, Bethesda & Greater Montgomery County, Maryland.
At Classic Guitar & Bass Studio, music isn’t just a skill — it’s a lifelong language of creativity and expression. Based in the heart of Silver Spring, MD, just steps from Woodmoor Shopping Center and near Montgomery Blair High School, our studio offers a professional yet comfortable space where students of every level can explore guitar and bass at their own pace.
Whether you’re picking up an instrument for the first time, preparing for an audition, or refining performance technique, we provide high-quality, customized instruction designed around your goals.
Always wanted to learn to play, or get better at guitar or bass? Looking for a good experienced teacher for yourself, or a child? Using over 50 years of performing and teaching experience, in a wide range of styles, my guitar and bass lessons students have fun learning to play in whatever style they choose. With these exciting lessons, students can learn quickly, and I try to keep my rates very affordable, so most students stay with me for years.
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From weddings, birthday and other parties, to business functions, we are the event performers to turn to for live musical performances for all of your special events, at very reasonable rates. From a solo classical guitar, violin with guitar, or adding a string bass, and more violins for a salon orchestra, to the Smokin' Polecats Blues Band, we will help create memories of a lifetime.
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years teaching & performing classical guitar and bass — and still counting.
lessons taught with patience, precision, and a calm smile.
weddings and events performed, from intimate gatherings to grand halls.
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My name is Leigh Oben. Thank you for visiting my website. From a very early age, all I’ve ever wanted to do was pursue a love of the sound of music. Drawing from a wide range of music experience, I enjoy sharing that love through performance and teaching. I welcome students of all ages, levels, and styles. Learn directly about the style(s) you are interested in, build a foundation of essential guitar or bass skills, and music theory in a way, and to whatever level, that is best for you. A total beginner? Played the guitar for years, and just can’t seem to go further, and ready to really learn? Rock, Blues, Acoustic, or Jazz? Want to build your Classical repertoire? Receive personalized lessons by an experienced, professional, and patient guitar teacher at Classic Guitar and Bass Studio in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Music can help the brain focus, think conceptually, be more efficient, and can be very benefical for children, which is one reason I love teaching students as young as 5, about music. I also offer college audition preparation lessons. I have more than 50 years of musical experience, offering students of any age, an exciting, fun, and convenient way to learn how to play the guitar or bass.
My son started taking lessons with Leigh when he was 10 years old after several years of other teachers that got him nowhere. Leigh was able to pick up on his love for the Beatles and encourage his natural love for music and for the guitar. In no time flat, Adam was flying through more and more complex music and absolutely loving it! In the process, Leigh taught him the practical music theory that differentiates a real guitar player. He also helped him arrange a version of “The End” which got Adam selected to be the lead guitarist for a youth Beatles Band in a nationwide competition. And shortly after that, Leigh helped Adam learn some of the most complex fingerpicking I have ever seen (arranged by Tommy Emmanuel.)Adam clearly came to the table with some musical talent — but it takes the right teacher to nurture that talent and give it voice. Leigh did that for him through some gifted and caring instruction, and Adam’s love of music and performing will surely always be part of his life.
I have been a student for eight years at the Classical Guitar and Bass Studio, studying classical guitar with Leigh Oben. Leigh is one of the best teachers I have ever had in any subject. He has high standards, but he makes learning the guitar fun. He can play and teach lots of styles of guitar — classical, rock, jazz, etc. — and he is great at all of them. I have watched him teach students of different ages and I can tell they all were having a great learning experience. If you want to learn the guitar, study with Leigh! -Sean Dobson Silver Spring, MD.
