Ep182 From Boston to Belmont – Mike Valeras on Guitar Education and Finding Your Lane

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In episode 182 of the Guitar Music Theory Podcast , I sit down with Mike Valeras, an adjunct guitar instructor at Belmont University here in Nashville, where he teaches commercial music and improvisation. Mike shares his guitar learning journey, early band experiences, and his formal music education, including earning both a music education degree and a master's degree. We talk about how he made the move from Boston to Nashville and ultimately landed his teaching position at Belmont. Growing up, Huey Lewis and the News was his favorite band, and today Mike is one of the guitarists in The Heart of Rock and Roll , the Huey Lewis and the News tribute band that I occasionally play with as well.…