chris olson music

YouTube Guitar Lessons

Practice With C.O.

After being musically educated at the Universities of Minnesota-Duluth, Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and North Texas, I became an educator myself, teaching at UWSP, UW-Marathon Center, the Wausau Conservatory of Music, Inver Hills Community College, MacPhail Center for Music, and a recently defunct school that was once called Music Tech, where I worked for nearly 20 years. I have also taught summer camps and workshops at the Shell Lake Arts Center, UW-Green Bay, UW-Stevens Point, the former Music Tech, Minnesota All-State Jazz at Concordia in Moorhead, MN, and a unique jazz camp in Jesus Maria, Argentina. I have also been an adjudicator and performer at several festivals in the area.

One of my Facebook handles is "Christopher Olson Edumacator." I thought that would be a forum for communicating with students, but it quickly became just an extension of my other FB account. So I'll try this again, here. I will post materials and videos here, or link you to YouTube videos. One series I'm putting together is a class on contemporary harmony, which I was supposed to be teaching this semester, except that my employer went out of business. So here is a chance to take the class, free of charge (for now). I will also post various guitar lessons (there's a glut of this on the intertoobz, but I intend to enhance your gluts). Enjoy!