Lessons take place at my home studio in Ruislip, and utilise backing tracks & music software (Guitar Pro, Pro Tools, Addictive Drums etc) 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 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, timing
& tempos, basic rhythms, strumming patterns,
powerchords, the pentatonic scale, the major scale, basic
chord building/harmony, introduction to soloing,
hammer-ons, pull-offs & slides, warm up exercises,
octaves...
Intermediate; developing an efficient
practicing routine, influences, working out recorded
material, 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, 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 (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, enclosure, sightreading, and much more...