Ready Set Guitar

Gerald Edward is a seasoned guitar teacher with 15 years of private instruction and elementary school classroom experience. An honors graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music, he was a member of the guitar faculty at Westerhoff School of Music and Art in New Jersey for ten years, and taught multi-student instruction in classrooms for grades K-6. In 2014, he founded Ditmas Park Guitar in Brooklyn, NY, where he teaches kids guitar, bass, ukulele, and keyboard. Gerald has had a well-rounded career in music, releasing two full-length albums of music, You Write the Words (2010) and Side A / Side B (2012) and another as a co-writer with the band Inland Traveler, Rivers Always Run (2012). He has toured the United States as a solo act and as a supporting musician. As a producer, he's composed and engineered music for Shutterstock's commercial library. He is a first call guitarist and bassist for special event music, averaging between 70 to 80 wedding gigs in the New York area per year. For the past 2 years, Gerald has been creating Ready... Set... Guitar!, a children's book that makes guitar easy and fun for new learners, ages 5 through 9. Gerald wrote this method with the intent to provide a great resource for teachers of young guitarists, as well as a helpful guide for parents who want to learn along side their children.