Understanding how the guitar works
and to play like your favourite artist is a relatively easy goal to achieve.
Through perseverance and practice you will quickly see the results and
within 6-12 months, be playing with the in-house students band at one
of our many shows. The key to playing the guitar well
is understanding from day one how chords and scales work and why, rather
than trying to memorize shapes and reading tab, although this is fine
to turn to as a helping hand once in a while.
We run a large music concert each year for all students to perform with a live band, so this is a great project to set your sights on and use as a goal, as well as recording your songs in our studio.
In our Guitar lessons, we look at: -
Guitar Exams are available through "The Royal Academy of Music" and "Rock School".
Sponsored by Ernie Ball, D’Addario and Engl.
We run a large music concert each year for all students to perform with a live band, so this is a great project to set your sights on and use as a goal, as well as recording your songs in our studio.
In our Guitar lessons, we look at: -
- Guitar chords and how they work
- Plectrum techniques and control along with the different varieties of plectrums
- Training the ear for perfect pitch
- Posture
- Strumming techniques
- Bass Strum technique
- Arpeggio technique
- Finger playing
- Alternate pick pattern
- Most musical Styles – Jazz, blues, rock, metal, classical, funk etc
- Reading music
- Learning songs of your choice
- Fancy techniques like pinched harmonics, palm mutes and finger tapping etc.
- The right guitar for you
- Effect units and how they work
- Amps and the right one for you
- Playing by ear
- All scales and modes
- Playing along to backing tracks
- Improvisation
- Hammer ons and pull offs
- Playing in a band and joining the in-house students' band
- Stage craft
- Recording a track in the recording studio and click track work…etc…etc…etc
- A look into other guitarists – Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Steve Ray Vaughan, Kerry King, Jeff Beck
Guitar Exams are available through "The Royal Academy of Music" and "Rock School".
Sponsored by Ernie Ball, D’Addario and Engl.
