James was born in Downey, California and started playing guitar at the age of ten. At age fifteen he was selected to study with Celine Romero. James earned a Bachelor of Music degree under Pablo Cohen at Mansfield University and a Master of Music under composer/guitarist Bryan Johanson at Portland State University. James has created two instructional DVDs for Jeffrey Ashton’s “New Guitar Method” and has published his own method “Basic Guitar Method Tidbits”. He is a guitar instructor in the greater Portland area at Clark College and Concordia University.
