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Sandra started playing guitar when she was 14 years old. Her inspiration came from her father, Vince Sego when she was a small child. Her dad also was a professional guitarist and had worked with many famous people in his life, including Bill Haley and The Comets, Frankie Avalon, Denise Clemente, Charlie Ventura, Bo Didley, Paul Anka, Mac Davis and Hall Of Fame songwriter, Jimmy Webb, so she grew up in the music business.
She started to teach herself how to play guitar originally through Beatle books, so she could accompany her voice, because she loved to sing, and her father also helped her as well. He used to take her to his gigs and ask her to sing. She later took up guitar in school and got a teacher from The Juliard School of Music whom helped her quite a bit.
When she got out of high school, she got an agent and got a job as a go-go dancer in nightclubs, she did not dance nude or topless mind you, and danced to rock bands in cages throughout the New Jersey, Philadelphia area. For ten years of her life she was an entertainer, from the Disco era to the mid eighties. She also sang and played guitar in night clubs, parties, etc... as well, for many years in NJ and Philly. She has been in a few bands, and played as a duo with her husband also.
After the go-go years, she started teaching Ballroom dance lessons at Arthur Murray Dance Studios for quite some time. She's taught dance lessons for Arthur Murray in Beverly Hills, CA, Rolling Hills, CA, Orlando, FL, Clearwater, FL, and where she first began teaching Ballroom Dancing, was in Sarasota FL in 1986 where she got most of her training. Sandra has also written over 100 songs. She has plenty of experience teaching. The teaching methods for dance lessons and guitar lessons are very similar because of the rhythms in music and so forth. She accredits her training as a dance instructor as being a very valuable asset for teaching guitar.
Sandra has taught guitar lessons in the past, but never as a business. Her business, "Don't Fret" Guitar Instruction has been in operation for five years now, and she does it for the love of music. "If I can pass on the joy of music to people that I've gotten out of it for so many years, it's all worth it to me, and there's nothing else I'd rather do.
For those who wish to progress to above average skill, Sandra's husband Kurt teaches advanced guitar methods and has worked with professional sound systems and studios. In our teaching room we have a complete digital recording studio, vintage Marshall guitar amplification, high quality studio monitors and tri-amp playback system with a 32 channel 8 track audio desk.
