PRIVATE LESSONS
Welcome to the first step in rocking out!
The Great Burro Studios teaches music theory, ear training, musicianship, reading, and performance techniques. We work with all styles and levels of music. Our private lessons are geared towards each individual student's goals. For younger students that continually work towards their goal, Rock Band Camp is the next level of learning music. It's there that the student really excels in learning his or her musicianship.
We do require a commitment of six weekly lessons which are scheduled and paid for in advance. This helps students and teachers stay on track to their goals of rocking out!
New to The Great Burro Studios? We'd love to hear from you. Send us an email through our contact page and let us know a little more about you.
We specialize in these instruments:
VOICE - beginning to advanced and all styles
PIANO - beginning to advanced with emphasis on all contemporary style
GUITAR - beginning to advance
BASS - beginning to advance
DRUMS - beginning to advance
SONGWRITING - beginning to advance
UKE - beginning to advanced
OUR TEACHERS
SPENCER BURROWS
The studio's founder and primary music instructor, Spencer Burrows, is a serious advocate for the positive effects of music in people's lives. With a music education from Sonoma State University and certificate from Berklee College of Music in Boston, his career as a professional performer has taken him around the world and has made his own life richer and more exciting than he ever imagined.
His gift as a vocal-instrumentalist has put him onstage with many known well-known artists. His bands have shared the stage with internationally recognized bands including WAR, the Sons of Champlin, Los Lonely Boys, Ivan Nevile’s Dumpstaphunk, Bootsy Collins, and most recently has been on tour with Zero. His music career with Frobeck (2005-2018) and The Big Fit (2019) received multiple nominations, winning Best R&B Band from the Bohemian and Best Rock Band with Frobeck. Spencer Burrows is a prolific song-writer and has co-produced, with his band-partner Kris Dilbeck, many albums for his band Frobeck. In 2019, the newly-formed duo, Burrows & Dilbeck, released a 14 track album, All the Same, and in 2024 they will release another multi-track album of soul, funk + rock, Other Shore.
His teaching career has given him the tremendous opportunity to guide group music and movement classes with kids from 6 months old and up. In his teachings, Spencer focuses on each student as their own artist, often encouraging song-writing and performing. His students have been accepted as music majors to Berklee College of Music, Musicians Institute, and UCLA just to name a few, but all, no matter their post high-school education and path, have reflected on their positive experience at The Great Burro Studios. His teaching covers the basic structure of music-theory, ear training, sight-reading, rhythm, pitch and improvisation - but also implements his philosophies of "honor, respect, communication, dedication, and FUN!"
DAVID GRAY
David Gray is a Sonoma County multi-instrumentalist with over 15 years of experience performing, recording, and teaching drums, guitar, bass, and piano. He is well-versed in many different styles and genres, as well as music reading/writing, theory, production, and ear training. David is passionate about music in all forms and loves to learn, teach and share new musical ideas!
DIANA WALKER
Diana has been playing music ever since she could crawl up on the piano bench. Then, she joined a rock band. Then, she trained as a singer & composer, completing a BFA degree at CalArts, followed by a Master of Music in Opera singing & performance at UCLA. She spent several years deepening her practice with master voice teacher Fred Carama before moving back to Sonoma County, her home turf.