Warren Sharp

Teacher: Guitar

I started playing guitar when I was 14 as a way to keep hanging out with my friends after they all started a band together. I learned as many Green Day songs from 39/Smooth to American Idiot as I could before finding bands like Trivium, Mastodon, Dream Theater, and my favorite Coheed and Cambria which really solidified me as an insufferable nerd by the time I was 17. Around that age, starting bands became a passion of mine. I also started teaching guitar at 18 in the school I was taking lessons at. I fell in love with sharing my knowledge and helping people find a love for music for themselves.

After high school, I took classes at Wake Tech for a couple years before finding the music program at North Carolina Central University. I met with the guitar professor at the time, Baron Tymas and after he played some truly beautiful music, I knew I had to go to this school. After faking my way through some changes and telling a Jazz jury that my favorite guitarist was Randy Rhoads, I started at NCCU in 2011 and over the years took private lessons with Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo. The focus at Central was on traditional Jazz with heavy helpings of big band and Bebop music but there was a lot of classical technique and repertoire. My time at NCCU was truly some of the most amazing years of my life but all good things must come to an end and in 2015 I graduated with honors. Since college I have continued teaching, starting bands, releasing music, and playing some amazing shows and concerts.

Warren Sharp

Teacher: Guitar

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