Testimonials

I started taking lessons with David as a ground level beginner. He has been such a wonderful teacher! He is patient, encouraging, and really pays attention to your specific goals and musical interests. As an accomplished musician himself, he’s inspiring, and great fun to play music with. I know even the most experienced players would benefit from working with him – I highly recommend!  I’ve enjoyed my lessons so much, we’ve continued via Skype, as I am now in California.

~ Julie C

In less than a year working with David, I have made significant improvement in playing guitar. He is a patient, articulate, and creative instructor who can convey both mechanics and theory in an easily understandable manner.

~ Janie White

I find David Zoll to be an outstanding instructor, he always has such enthusiasm and patience. He is always open to new ideas and will help you take your music in any direction you want to go.  He also ends every session with positive feed back that leaves you feeling good about yourself.

I highly recommend David as an instructor.

~ Terry C

From my first lesson with David, it was clear that he is an excellent teacher and someone who also loves to teach. He constantly challenges me to stretch beyond my comfort zone yet has an uncanny ability to provide encouragement at just precisely the right moment. He is a sweet, warm, kind taskmaster!  In addition, he is also an excellent musician and is thoroughly steeped in music theory.

~ Susan B

While a lot of tutorials online teach the chords to various tunes, David not only does that (extremely well) but goes beyond – different chord voicings, strum patterns, and ornamentation which all add texture and depth I’d never know existed otherwise. Lessons are totally relaxed but packed full of playing, and I walk out of every single one having learned something about either the song I brought in or guitar concepts (or, usually, both). I’ve recommended him to friends before and would do so again without hesitation.

~ Toby S

  • Bio

    For me it all started with oldies radio. Riding in the car as a kid with my folks and brother, back and forth to my Grandparents place in Hauppauge, NY. They always played CBS FM in the car on those Sunday evenings, and I still love most of those tunes to this day. Frankie Vallie and The Four Seasons, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Beach Boys, The Hollies, Booker T and the MG’s . . .classic doo-wop, early rock-n- roll and old school rhythm and blues. Motown. Stax. Sun Records. In my opinion, these tunes and artists are part of my own personal Great American Songbook.

    My Mom was a director and arranger of a women’s barbershop chorus, and my Dad could sing like Roy Orbison. Still can. The first tunes I heard my Dad play on the guitar were House of the Rising Sun and Summertime. Two tunes I still play and teach to this day. My brother Chris played drums and my first instrument was saxophone. I was blessed to grow up in a very musical family where Happy Birthday was always sung in harmony, and in an area where the public school arts programs were top notch. Band, chorus, theatre .The real deal also just a train ride to Manhattan away. These are things I feel strongly about. Without the arts and music in our lives, where and who would we be??

    I first picked up the guitar when I was 15 or 16, trying to pluck out simple versions of Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel tunes. I got serious in my early twenties, expanding my listening to a steady infusion of jazz, soul, funk, reggae, and thanks to my wife, classic outlaw country. Studying with esteemed finger-style guitar players Chuck Van Riper and Roy Carlson in Melbourne, FL, I was exposed to Chet Atkins, Doc Watson, and contemporary players like Tommy Emmanuel. I also enjoyed the lyrical electric styles of Jeff Beck, Mark Knopfler, and David Gilmour. I soon started gigging as soon as I could work up the nerve, feverishly beating the heck out of my Alvarez Jumbo at bars, restaurants and Irish pubs in the central Florida area.

    My wife Angela and I moved to the Asheville area in 2006, and we currently reside in Swannanoa, NC. I’ve been teaching at the Acoustic Corner, Western North Carolinas premier stringed instrument shop, ever since our arrival to this musically rich and diverse area. I’ve had the pleasure to play with with Cajun and Zydeco outfit Bayou Diesel, reggae-dub group Chalwa , Americana duo The Everydays, my own blues rock quartet DZQ, old-school country outfit The Old Chevrolette set, Laura Blackley and the Wildflowers as well as a solo artist for countless weddings and corporate events. I aspire to be your go-to wedding guitarist in Western North Carolina.I’ve also been very fortunate to play with some of the best musicians in the area at almost every major festival including Merlefest, Bele Chere, Mountain Sports Festival, French Broad River Fest, and LEAF.

  • Lessons

    -“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

    – B.B. King

    By teaching you are taught. I’m not sure who said this to me but I can’t think of a truer statement. I love to teach, and consider myself lucky to have a guitar or ukulele in my hands for hours a day, showing folks how to play music. Each lesson is finely tailored to each student, and I enjoy teaching players of all age groups and abilities.

    I’ve been playing for over 20 years, an educator for 12, but will always still consider myself a student of the music. You should too.

    I’m available for one-on- one lessons at the Acoustic Corner  in Black Mountain, via Skype for students not in the area, and in your home if convenient.

    Rates are as follows: $25 for the Half Hour, or $40 for the full hour. See the contact page, send me an email, and let’s get something set up.

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  • Video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzrvoYL4gE8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2DNoHUMuJI

    David Zoll Trio @ Pisgah Brewing Co - 11/4/2016

  • Purchase

    The Everydays

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    When It's All Over

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