Good Music Academy, Philadelphia PA

Our daughter (7 years old) has been taking lessons with Kale for 3 years and just started our younger daughter (4 years old) with lessons as well.

My wife and I both have music degrees and fondly remember our early musical educations. So our expectations were quite high when selecting a teacher. And Kale is quite simply one of the best you will ever find. His lessons are amazing - patient, informative, engaging, and they seem to fly by. He does a a great job connecting with each kids on their terms, and using games and other creative ways to teach skills, music making, and other things that really elevate his student's playing.

Kale recently started teaching our older daughter some flamenco pieces and she just can't get enough! We just took her guitar with us on vacation with us and she was playing it for hours every day.

She also has developed a sense of pride in her playing and an eagerness to show off all she has learned. Pic attached of her stealing the show at a West Philly Porchfest performance.

**Edited to add this, several years later. Original review below. **
Turns out Kale is also great with teenagers. My kid is now 17. She's applying to colleges now, and she's decided that she'll only consider schools where she can do a music major-preferably with a classical guitar performance track. Kale has been working with her on choosing and polishing audition pieces, and generally helping her prepare for the next step in her musical education. Thanks partly to Kale, making music has become a major and lasting part of my child's life.

My 11-year-old daughter has been taking guitar with Kale for about a year and a half now, and I've been very happy with our experience with him. (I can't speak for my kid, but she seems to like it, too. She practices moderately often and never complains about trekking over to West Philly by bus for her lessons.) Kale's great with kids-he's engaging, patient, and thoughtful. Every lesson, I can tell he's working to put himself in my daughter's shoes to understand what she's getting and what she's not. And Kale's not one of those teachers who's only interested in teaching technical skills. He helps my kid to think musically-playing interval-hearing games and such.

Kale is an amazing instructor who has the patience of the ancients with our child. He has been taking lessons for over two years and every lesson is a fun learning experience. Now if I can just get him to practise more.

Kale Good is an excellent guitar teacher. My child has made enormous progress in technique and musicality with his guidance. We like the combination of the structured Suzuki method with improv and games, and my child also benefits from listening to and playing with others in his group classes. Kale takes pedagogy very seriously, has 1001 tricks up his sleeve for helping kids progress, and pays close attention to what each student needs. I can't recommend him highly enough!

Our daughter has been taking lessons for over two years now. Kale is a fantastic teacher. He seems to know how to attune to each kid, figuring out the balance of challenging and reassuring his students. His Suzuki lessons have helped our daughter grown tremendously, especially her confidence. We highly recommend Kale.

Learning to play classical guitar as an adult student has given me an extremely fulfilling new way to express myself musically, reawakening a part of myself that had lay dormant for the better part of a decade. Not only that, it's given me something to work toward and look forward to each week that lies entirely outside of my responsibilities as a father or at my job.

Kale is a fantastic teacher, able to meet me at my level at every step of the way. His creative approach has introduced new technology and side materials organically when new challenges have emerged on my journey. I've been his student for a couple of years now, and I would recommend him as a teacher to anyone regardless of age or current skill level.