When I was a kid, in grade school, I would buy these thick books of “Guitar Tab” songs from bands like Metallica & Guns N Roses, and I learned to read 

music in school, and that’s how I learned how to play bass at the age of 13… 

It ultimately steered towards a degree in music at American River College 

and then CSU Sacramento.  When I graduated, I started teaching a private studio & immediately began teaching my students Beatles Songs.

But I found that so much of the music out there was either the wrong format, in the wrong key, or was printed on 6 or 7 pages with tabs & repeats… essentially impossible to read & impossible to perform with. 

I wanted my students to be able to play-along with the records.  So I started composing and arranging everything.

I arranged tunes so they would fit on two pages (ie: “NO PAGE TURNS!”).

This was about the time of the birth of The Beatles Guitar Project.

We performed our first Beatles album, (Sgt. Pepper’s) in May of 2016.

And over these last 10 years, I’ve transcribed, scored and arranged the entire

Beatles discography; it has been a real blessing to teach this music to hundreds and hundreds of students over these many, many years.

I also started scoring for my professional musician friends so that they could come and play the shows too.  The more the merrier! and the students love it!

Basically creating the most fantastic Play-A-Long environment I could come up with for each show.

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Private students pay tuition per month to take 4 private lessons each month, and they pay nothing else to be in the band.

Through lessons, I distribute the charts (the songs… & the different parts to songs) that I plan to perform on our next show.

I’ve been teaching this format for the last decade. 

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If a student, was to “play-along” from home, they would need the “lessons” (or the charts) in order to participate from home.  Those “lessons” would cost $50 a month, and include the opportunity to play-along “live” each week and the tunes to study at home.

The goal would be to send songs each week.

(could be 2 or 3 songs… could be 6 or 7 songs…

it really depends upon the show)…via email (in PDF format). 

Online students would be responsible to print their own parts and create their own books of music from home.  

Many of the songs we play have supplemental YouTube videos, as I record videos right in the middle of lessons sometimes for students

 to watch when they get home (a lot of the time you can hear my students playing in the video right next to me).

Last Year (2025) we performed eleven shows and studied a ton! of music. Click this link to see all of the shows we played and each setlist performed.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/the-beatles-guitar-project-be2293a.html

The Advance Band Rehearses on Thursdays at 5pm &

The Beginning Band Rehearses of Fridays at 5pm.

What lessons you’re looking for?

ie: Guitar (Beginning, Advanced, Lead Sheets (with words and chords),

E. Bass. (with or without tabs)

Many songs have rhythm guitar parts with tabs, and leads with tabs.

Send me an email and join the fun! sacprepmusic@gmail.com

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Below is some “peak Beatles Guitar Project!”

I Am The Walrus (2022 at The Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento CA.)