Easy 2 Learn Guitar Lessons
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How much does it cost & what do you get for your money?
Individual Guitar Lessons
I charge £20 an hour per lesson and would prefer to teach in my own home environment where I have all the equipment and learning materials at my disposal.
I may be willing to offer lessons at student's homes depending on how far I have to travel. Please contact me for more details.
Group Guitar Lessons
I also offer group lessons to students and I charge £10 an hour for each student.
To qualify for group lessons, there needs to be a minimum of two, or a maximum of three students attending the lesson and ideally everyone should be around the same level of playing.
Here is what you can expect from my lessons:
• The extra care and attention that goes into preparation for each lesson.
• Printed copies of all lesson materials including full transcriptions of the songs you are learning, in easy to read guitar notation.
• PDF transcriptions of the songs you are learning (optional).
• MIDI version of the songs you are learning so you can hear exactly, note-for-note, how the guitar part is being played (optional).
• Backing-Tracks: I can create backing-tracks in both mp3 & MIDI so you can play along to the songs you are learning - a
slower version of the backing-track is available upon request if the standard version is too fast. I will charge a small fee for the backing-tracks due to the time it takes to create one. Please contact me for more details.
• Free after-lesson support, 7-days a week.
• Studio-like acoustically treated room for an ideal teaching environment.
Tuition Methods
The lessons will be entirely focused on each individual student based on their personal aims and ambitions, their age, how long they have been playing the guitar for and their playing ability.
During the first lesson, I will try to establish their playing level and discuss what their goals are and what they hope to gain from these lessons e.g. whether they are studying for graded exams, having problems improvising, problems learning a song, need to brush up on their vibrato technique or just want to learn for the sheer fun of it.
Regardless of their goals however, I strongly advise students to take a look at the RGT graded handbooks as they are widely recognised as the most well-structured and comprehensive method of studying the electric guitar, enabling you to improve in ALL the main general aspects of guitar playing. If the student chooses to ignore the handbooks, they may then end up with weaknesses in other areas of guitar playing, making them a less rounded guitar player.
If the students wish to take part in the guitar examinations then the lessons can structured to address each section of the examinations.
Learning to play the correct way with the proper technique
Having completed an advance level guitar course at The Academy of Contemporary Music, I will be able to teach my students the correct way of playing the guitar with the right technique so that they do not develop bad habits starting from using the correct posture when holding the guitar and also including the following:
Warm-up exercises to loosen and relax your fingers so that your fingers are fully prepared before playing the guitar.
Exersises that increases the stamina, strength & dexterity of all four fingers (index, middle, ring & pinky)
Left-hand & right-hand muting techniques to help mute the strings giving you total control over the notes you play so that no unwanted strings are ringing.
Different types of vibrato to add more emotion and variety to the notes you play.
Basic double-hand tapping, sweep-picking arpeggios, hammer-on's and pull-off's, 3-notes-per-string legato shapes, raking the strings, pinched-harmonics, finger-picking etc.
Specialised finger exercises using a metronome to help sync both your left-hand & right-hand enabling you to play and pick each note faster - great for playing those trickier, faster solos!
A great all-round guitar player?
My lessons will build up ALL the general areas of guitar playing and as a result will make you a great all-round guitar player.
Here are the categories you will improve on, based in conjunction with the RGT electric guitar grade handbooks:
1. Scales & arpeggios: Increasing your knowledge of scales and arpeggios gives you freedom to form more ideas & melodies thus improving your improvisational skills.
2. Chords: Developing your knowledge so that you will end up learning all the main chords (and extended chords) on the fretboard as well as how they are constructed - the more chords you know, the more freedom it allows you at composing you own music.
3. Rhythm playing: Learn to strum/pick/fingerpick the guitar in a variety of different rhythmic patterns and styles and learn how to read chord charts/sequences.
4. Lead playing: Learn how to solo and improvise over chord progressions using the majority of scales at your disposal, as well as learning to perform advanced techniques including vibrato, hammer-ons/pull-offs, raking the strings, pinched-harmonics etc adding more variety and emotion to your lead playing.
5. Spoken tests: This involves developing your knowledge of the instrument, notes on the fretboard, music theory, chord construction/relationships etc.
6. Aural assessment: Develops your ear for music i.e learn to recognise the difference between major, minor, dominant, diminished and extended chords, recognising intervals between notes, recognise different rhythmic patterns and clap them back etc.
7. Specialism: This is a more advanced level and consists of:
Slide/bottleneck playing
Finger-tapping
Fingerstyle (flatpicking)
Individual Guitar Lessons
I charge £20 an hour per lesson and would prefer to teach in my own home environment where I have all the equipment and learning materials at my disposal.
I may be willing to offer lessons at student's homes depending on how far I have to travel. Please contact me for more details.
Group Guitar Lessons
I also offer group lessons to students and I charge £10 an hour for each student.
To qualify for group lessons, there needs to be a minimum of two, or a maximum of three students attending the lesson and ideally everyone should be around the same level of playing.
Here is what you can expect from my lessons:
• The extra care and attention that goes into preparation for each lesson.
• Printed copies of all lesson materials including full transcriptions of the songs you are learning, in easy to read guitar notation.
• PDF transcriptions of the songs you are learning (optional).
• MIDI version of the songs you are learning so you can hear exactly, note-for-note, how the guitar part is being played (optional).
• Backing-Tracks: I can create backing-tracks in both mp3 & MIDI so you can play along to the songs you are learning - a
slower version of the backing-track is available upon request if the standard version is too fast. I will charge a small fee for the backing-tracks due to the time it takes to create one. Please contact me for more details.
• Free after-lesson support, 7-days a week.
• Studio-like acoustically treated room for an ideal teaching environment.
Tuition Methods
The lessons will be entirely focused on each individual student based on their personal aims and ambitions, their age, how long they have been playing the guitar for and their playing ability.
During the first lesson, I will try to establish their playing level and discuss what their goals are and what they hope to gain from these lessons e.g. whether they are studying for graded exams, having problems improvising, problems learning a song, need to brush up on their vibrato technique or just want to learn for the sheer fun of it.
Regardless of their goals however, I strongly advise students to take a look at the RGT graded handbooks as they are widely recognised as the most well-structured and comprehensive method of studying the electric guitar, enabling you to improve in ALL the main general aspects of guitar playing. If the student chooses to ignore the handbooks, they may then end up with weaknesses in other areas of guitar playing, making them a less rounded guitar player.
If the students wish to take part in the guitar examinations then the lessons can structured to address each section of the examinations.
Learning to play the correct way with the proper technique
Having completed an advance level guitar course at The Academy of Contemporary Music, I will be able to teach my students the correct way of playing the guitar with the right technique so that they do not develop bad habits starting from using the correct posture when holding the guitar and also including the following:
Warm-up exercises to loosen and relax your fingers so that your fingers are fully prepared before playing the guitar.
Exersises that increases the stamina, strength & dexterity of all four fingers (index, middle, ring & pinky)
Left-hand & right-hand muting techniques to help mute the strings giving you total control over the notes you play so that no unwanted strings are ringing.
Different types of vibrato to add more emotion and variety to the notes you play.
Basic double-hand tapping, sweep-picking arpeggios, hammer-on's and pull-off's, 3-notes-per-string legato shapes, raking the strings, pinched-harmonics, finger-picking etc.
Specialised finger exercises using a metronome to help sync both your left-hand & right-hand enabling you to play and pick each note faster - great for playing those trickier, faster solos!
A great all-round guitar player?
My lessons will build up ALL the general areas of guitar playing and as a result will make you a great all-round guitar player.
Here are the categories you will improve on, based in conjunction with the RGT electric guitar grade handbooks:
1. Scales & arpeggios: Increasing your knowledge of scales and arpeggios gives you freedom to form more ideas & melodies thus improving your improvisational skills.
2. Chords: Developing your knowledge so that you will end up learning all the main chords (and extended chords) on the fretboard as well as how they are constructed - the more chords you know, the more freedom it allows you at composing you own music.
3. Rhythm playing: Learn to strum/pick/fingerpick the guitar in a variety of different rhythmic patterns and styles and learn how to read chord charts/sequences.
4. Lead playing: Learn how to solo and improvise over chord progressions using the majority of scales at your disposal, as well as learning to perform advanced techniques including vibrato, hammer-ons/pull-offs, raking the strings, pinched-harmonics etc adding more variety and emotion to your lead playing.
5. Spoken tests: This involves developing your knowledge of the instrument, notes on the fretboard, music theory, chord construction/relationships etc.
6. Aural assessment: Develops your ear for music i.e learn to recognise the difference between major, minor, dominant, diminished and extended chords, recognising intervals between notes, recognise different rhythmic patterns and clap them back etc.
7. Specialism: This is a more advanced level and consists of:
Slide/bottleneck playing
Finger-tapping
Fingerstyle (flatpicking)