Lessons take place at my home studio in Ruislip, and utilise music software & backing tracks to enhance the learning experience, as well as lots of good old fashioned jamming and learning songs! Handouts are provided in most lessons, which eventually build up to form a compendium of work and are a handy future reference. Alongside the notes I will ensure you have a clear focus as to your practice schedule, and more importantly how to practice.
I have a comprehensive teaching package from beginners to advanced, A selection of the topics covered include;
Beginners; Introduction to the guitar, left
& right hand technique, tuning, finding your way
around the fretboard, open chords, bar chords, use of
distortion & powerchords, pentatonic scales,
introduction to soloing, hammer-ons, pull-offs &
slides, double stops, warm up exercises, octaves...
Intermediate; developing an efficient
practicing routine, influences, working out recorded
material, major scale shapes, harmonising a major scale,
close voicing chords, common chord progressions &
stylings, major 7th, minor 7th & dominant chords
& extended dominants, building chord progressions,
building extended chords, inversions, triads, intervals,
diatonic sequences, CAGED system, common chord spellings,
more string bending & vibrato, fingerpicking, major
& minor arpeggios, melodic minor scale, harmonic
minor scale...
Advanced; String skipping, right hand tapping, arpeggios, sweep-picking, sequencing, legato, advanced legato, blues using 6ths, advanced pentatonic playing & superimposing pentatonics, rhythmic groupings & accenting, finger independence, using the tremolo arm effectively, artificial harmonics, efficient picking, modes of the major scale & modal melody, hybrid (combined pick & finger technique) picking, chromatic soloing, tri-tones, cross-picking, alternate picking, scale access, exotic scales, dominant pentatonics, intervallic slides, diatonic arpeggios, arpeggio superimposition, open voiced arpeggios, intelligent improvisation, dynamic control, sightreading, stylistic analysis of influential guitarists... and much much more...
