Learn with Dean
Private 1-on-1 lessons with the creator of Dead Sea Scales. 30+ years as a guitarist, bassist, touring musician, and educator. Learn the system directly from the person who built it.
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Private 1-on-1 lessons with the creator of Dead Sea Scales. 30+ years as a guitarist, bassist, touring musician, and educator. Learn the system directly from the person who built it.
Book a Lesson →Every session is tailored to where you are and where you want to go. Whether you're picking up a guitar for the first time or you've been playing for 20 years and hit a wall — Dean meets you there.
Modes, scales, and the 5 Missing Notes — mapped to YOUR playing style and the music you actually listen to.
Left-hand alignment, muting, minimum effort picking. The fundamentals that separate sounding good from sounding great.
How to use intervals and Missing Notes to say what you feel — not just play what you memorized.
Walk through Dead Sea Scales with the author. Use the interactive tool and the book together in real time with Dean guiding you.
Lessons are conducted via video call. All you need is your guitar, the free interactive tool open in your browser, and the willingness to play. That's it.
Christopher "Dean" Dean is a guitarist, bassist, and touring musician who has played internationally with legacy acts including Prong (alongside Tommy Victor, guitarist of Danzig). He has taught at major music schools and built his own roster of private students over three decades.
Dead Sea Scales: The 5 Missing Notes is his first book — a complete classification system for every possible scale in 12-tone equal temperament. The interactive fretboard tool, the book, the posters, and the lessons are all part of one unified curriculum.
All lessons are 1 hour, conducted via video call