£25 per hour
£15 per half hour (suitable for the younger kids)
Lessons take place at my home studio in South Ruislip, and utilise backing tracks & music software 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. If you want to learn specific songs, please bring a CDR or a USB stick of the songs along to the lesson. I also offer tuition for the RGT graded exams in electric & acoustic guitar.
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, barre
chords, developing your timing, basic rhythms,
strumming patterns, powerchords, the pentatonic
scale, the major scale, basic chord
building/harmony, blues, introduction to soloing,
hammer-ons, pull-offs & slides, octaves, warm
up exercises & general musicianship...
Intermediate; developing an efficient
practicing routine, influences, working out
recorded material & using the internet as a
resource, major scale box patterns, pentatonic box
patterns, harmonising a major scale, the minor
scale, close voicing chords, common chord
progressions & stylings, transpositional major
7th, minor 7th & dominant chords & extended
dominants, more chord building chord progressions,
building extended chords, inversions, triads,
intervals, diatonic sequences, the CAGED system,
introduction to Jazz, common chord spellings, more
string bending & vibrato, fingerpicking, double
stops, major & minor arpeggios, melodic minor
scale, harmonic minor scale...
Advanced; String skipping, right hand tapping, arpeggios, sweep-picking, sequencing, 3 note per string scales/modes, 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 (speed picking), modes of the major & minor scales & modal melody, hybrid picking, chromatic soloing, tri-tones, cross-picking, alternate picking, scale access, exotic scales, dominant pentatonics, intervallic slides, diatonic arpeggios, altered dominant arpeggios, arpeggio superimposition, polychords, open voiced arpeggios, intelligent improvisation, dynamic control, note enclosure, sightreading, and much more...