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About Aaron Doerr Fellow Musician

 

Aaron teaches electric, acoustic and bass guitar lessons in St. Louis to students of all ages.

One-hour guitar lessons stress repertoire building, musical vocabulary, self- assessment of goals and time & resource management.

Skilled in audio aesthetics, having earned a B.S. in Audio Engineering from Webster University in 2003, Aaron has been working part-time as Production Assistant for St. Louis Public Radio since 2003, now located in Grand Center.

In 2004 Aaron began a six-year employment at a local guitar shop and lesson studio in Webster Groves as full-time Instructor and Band Leader. Aaron created “Aaron Doerr Fellow Musician” in 2010 to operate as a professional guitarist for musical theatre and private instructor teaching lessons and developing resources and materials. Aaron hosts jam sessions for his students at the home studio and schedules open mic nights and student showcases around town at coffee shops, bars and other venues. Aaron is officially certified by the state and federal offices as a limited liability corporation, LLC.. 

Aaron is a self-taught musician starting back in the summer after seventh grade in 1993 after learning his first few chords from his aunt on her electric guitar he was borrowing and soon after given (which was quickly decorated with stickers and paint). He began learning songs by ear and progressing to TAB-reading with the self-help of Guitar World magazine and transcription books. From then on, beginning at his eighth grade talent show all through metal bands in high school to jam bands in college where he was introduced to jazz Aaron has sought out music-playing along every stage of his musical development.

Today, Aaron is lead & rhythm guitarist with various professional musical theatre companies year-round in Maplewood, St. Louis, Kirkwood & Creve Couer. Highlights include the Guitar II Chair in New Line Theatre’s production of American Idiot and the Guitar I Chair in two productions of Jesus Christ Superstar. He teaches twenty students per week as owner and operator of Aaron Doerr Fellow Musician (ADfm).

His jazz teachers at Webster University and UM-St. Louis include Tom Byrne, Dave Black, Jim Widner & Bob Borgsteade.