RESUME - JACK HAMMOND
Jack is at the forefront of Chicagoland guitar education. With over 33 years of experience and over 75,000 lessons under his belt, he has completely revolutionized the image of the storefront guitar instructor.
Many former students have gone on to teaching careers themselves, (Most teachers at Perrys Music and at nearly every other area music store utilize his well known guitar method.
One of the most challenging teachers imaginable, Jack combines humor with a rigorous discipline to instill an organized and intellectual thought process within individuals. Going much further than just the notes, Jack uses pattern recognition, memory techniques, motor memory refinement and left-right brain dichotomies to get students to release their innate talents, not just on guitar, but in life. Students emerge with confidence, an unending intellectual curiosity, and a healthy cynicism, and are able to take creative and unorthodox approaches to problems, to think "outside the box."
Many long-time students, having mastered the instrument, continue to come for the constant challenges that are presented to their thinking by Jack, a supreme motivator.
Lessons are by request or reference only.
Below is a long list of production and community experience ranging from film and music, to community development and volunteer work with children that reflect a wide array of experience:
Film:
Lead: "Rock & Roll Punk" -1998
Presenter at Chicago Underground Film Festival
Writer/Director: "The Takers" -2001
Writer/Director: "Incident at Tortuga" -2004
Writer/Director: "Disarm" -2008
Presenter at Chicago Underground Film Festival
Writer/Director: "Five Below-2009
Television:
Producer/Director: WHAT-TV "Police Reunion", Print: Education: Politics: Fiction: Musical Production: Business: Owner-Operator, Fatal Beauty 2 Recording Studios, Glendale Heights IL Community: Music Teacher- York High School (current)
"Chicago Critical Mass",
"In Contact With..."
"Method:1" - Guitar Method
"Who Is The Liberal Media?" -Article,
"At the Circus: Swimming With The Big Fish At The Blagojevich Fry"- Article,
"B-Team" - Novelette
"American Gothic" - Screenplay
"The Fabulous Fascination" - Screenplay
Instrumental Guitar
"Open the Doors" – Jack Hammond Group
"A Fatal Beauty" – Jack Hammond Group
"Erratta Stigmatta" – Tools of Ignorance
"Opii" – Tools of Ignorance
Guitar and Vocals
"Rock and Roll Punk Original Soundtrack" – The Outpatients
(with Karl Alvarez and Bob Rising)
Vocals:
"Bricks Hit House"
Recorded bands such as Trouble, Macabre, and Material Issue
Countless live sound experiences
Producer/Manager - "Bloody Mary" (current)
33+ years private guitar instruction as independent contractor thru Perrys Music. Nearly 75,000 private lessons.
Owned and Designed 4 Recording Studios
Owner-Operator, Fatal Beauty Recording Studios, Lombard IL (1980-1990)
Director, Jackroll Multimedia
Bar Manager, Wine Steward, Terrace Restaurant
President(and Coach)-Glenside Baseball Little League
President-Downtown Lombard Unlimited
President-Reskin (Glendale Heights) PTA
President- Cambria VII Homeowners Association (current)
Founding Vice-President- Dupage Theatre Preservation
Director- Lombard Chamber of Commerce
