Rusty Cooley: featured in Houston news

He co-founded Pro Music Instruction in 2009 and has 56 students, including 52-year-old Robert Kozak, who has been taking lessons from Cooley for more than two years and said he has learned more than in his previous 25 years of playing.
“It’s like I’m about to take lessons from Mozart. This guy’s got music in his DNA,” Kozak said before a lesson.
Kozak believes Cooley is an exceptional teacher who makes it easy for him to understand guitar, like “turning calculus into basic arithmetic.” During a half-hour lesson, he said he sometimes doesn’t pick a guitar the entire time, as Cooley simply explains a certain piece of music. Kozak said he’ll often ask questions above his level, and weeks later Cooley will explain the answer during a lesson. read more