It all started with Eddie Van Halen, so I need thank him for the start to this musical journey! My first guitar teachers who taught me so much about music- Neal Harris and Nick Shryock. Here are a few of the many players that come to mind that have inspired my playing in many ways!! Leo Kottke, Ledward Kaapana, Jerry Douglas, Michael Landau, Greg V., Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck,Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton Steve Lukather. Neal Schon, Larry Carlton, Lyle Workman, Mark Goldenberg, David Grissom,Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn,Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai, Duane Allman, Sonny Landreth, Tuck Andress, Buddy Miller, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, Andres Seqovia, Joe Pass, Chet Atkins, Bret Mason and Micheal Hedges
Guitarist Paul Geller has been active on the Bay Area Music Scene since 1985. He started out playing in bars and nightclubs in his High School years and has remained involved in various musical projects ever since. Paul has opened for many artists such as Guitar Legend Carlos Santana and Grammy Winnner Bobby Kimball of Toto. Playing gigs all around California with cover bands and original projects has kept him busy working with many talented musicians and singers both live and in the recording studio.
Paul has been teaching guitar lessons for over 20 years. While studying music in college he continued his weekly lessons with some of the best guitar players and teachers in the Bay Area- Jazz Guitarist Neal Harris and Classical Guitarist Nick Shyrock.. He currently teaches private guitar lessons 5 days a week, holding down a full schedule of students age 7 and up. Paul teaches complete beginners to advanced players all styles of music on both acoustic and electric guitars. Paul taught after school guitar classes for grades 3 through 8 for over 13 years in the Ross Valley School District Music Program. Here he taught beginning to intermediate lessons to groups of 6 to 12 students at a time. This was a little like Paul’s own version of "School of Rock."
Paul also is a pilot editor for the FJH Music Publishing Company of Fort Lauderdale, assisting in reviewing and editing beginning guitar lesson books. FJH publishes a large variety of music lesson books for piano and guitar. Paul has worked on the Young Beginner Series Volume 1 which contains the Lesson Book, Performance Book, Exploring Chords and Theory Activity Book. He has also worked on the new Everybody’s Favorite Guitar Method Book 1. Paul likes to use these books as teaching supplements to help students develop their music reading skills and basic musicianship which is very important.
In addition, Paul writes and produces music for film, multimedia and television. He composes guitar parts on corporate videos, independent films and commercials. Some of his clients include Autodesk Software, Fox Sports Network, The Northface and the City of San Francisco. He keeps busy writing songs and playing on a variety of CDs and demos for many artists ranging from singer- songwriters Susan Z and Sarah Davis to San Francisco Punk Rockers The Nuns. He enjoys producing demo and complete CDs for local bands and artists. Paul feels that there is a lot of great talent in the Bay Area and he really enjoys working with the artists as they develop their sound.
Paul performs many gigs from solo guitar playing cafes, parties and weddings; to full band playing rock, r n b, blues, funk and standards for corporate events, concerts and festivals. Some of his clients include Starbucks Coffee, American Cancer Society, Mill Valley Film Festival and Guide Dogs for the Blind. He has performed live or in the studio with Eric Martin (Mr Big) Jeff Watson (Night Ranger) Gigi Gonaway (Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin) Jimmy Sage (Scotty Moore, Lee Rocker) Jude Gold (Associate Editor Guitar Player Magazine, Billy Sheehan, Stu Hamm, Jeff Berlin) David Jenkins ( Pablo Cruise) Tal Morris (Creedence Clearwater Revisited) Chris Rowan (Rowan Brothers) and SF Punk Rockers The Nuns
YES! You tore it up, Paul. Thank you so much for playing that night. I wish you didn't charge so much, but you're worth it!!! HA! Let's do it again sometime. Acutally, I should start working on WW&S since it's right around the corner. Love you! z
Hello Paul, thanks for the friendship at another one of my pages. You have a well rounded collection of tracks and I enjoyed listening to them. Noticed that you are a guitar instructor. Well, my day job happens to be teaching piano. I've been doing it for around 16 years. Also noticed that you are a fellow Eddie Van Halen fan. I've always been enamored and amazed by Eddie's fabulous playing. Obviously, it has influenced your great playing. Respectfully Yours, ~John
Hi Paul !! I'm so glad to see that you are doing music full time. Even back in high school I had no doubt you would. We didn't have myspace then !! Just Van Halen !! - Mike B.
Hi Paul, thanks so much for listening and commenting on my songs, really means a lot. Yes, I consider myself extremely fortunate to be able to work with Bonnie Hayes, she is such a generous teacher. Also, to have Kevin do the drums on the cd was fantastic. I just listened to all your songs and am in such a nice and mellow mood from them. Of course, makes me think I should take some guitar lessons!
Great playing with you again, Paul! Way to hold the band together! Great sound you got their. (I hope you could hear yourself okay! And see you OCT. 15th at the BOOM BOOM ROOM, ha ha.
Hope to see you there. I went to ticketweb and ordered a ticket (up to the pay point) and it was already to go through. Not sure what trouble your bro had. I'm sure we'll be able to get him a ticket. Love, z
Hi Honey, check out my YouTube videos, please. :o) Thanks for the call yesterday. Mom was very secretive about her breast cancer. But now we know all the details. Thanks for your love and support. We're off to Fairy Land with some little friends. LOVE you, z
Hi .. hey many thanks for you comments ! I really appreciate it and I enjoyed your site too ..great please stay in touch..there'll be quite a few developments soon God bless Bryan http://myspace. com/perezmusic
