Beginners

Kids Lessons

Guitar Lessons for beginners and Kids guitar lessons should be approached differently to guitar lessons for adults. There is a great opportunity to teach them how to read music. A young mind learns fast and taking the time to teach them single note pieces from a musical score gives them confidence and skills that chord playing doesn't. Once they get these skills down we move them onto intermediate lessons and contemporary songs. The amazing thing is they take these reading skills with them. They find it so rewarding being able to come out of each lesson playing a new song they recognise and know rather than just strumming away at chords. Reading musical notes is like reading words in a book. Its a skill that lasts for ever.

We need to build the passion and confidence first, whilst building solid, transferable musical concepts. With kids, we build a real musical education, a true solid groundwork that impacts all areas of their cognitive, fine motor and social learning future. The benefits a young child gets from learning the language of music is like learning a second or third spoken language. Its so rewarding as a teacher to see a young child read and successfully read and play a piece of music they have never seen or heard before.

Intermediate Lessons

When most intermediate guitar players first come to us they don't know how to read music. They are missing so many simple, yet important pieces of the puzzle. Often they think it's hard and beyond them, which is simply not true. So many players can shred up and down the neck and have great physical skills but don't understand how chords are made, or what scales and modes are. So much of what they have learnt is rote learnt. Built up from patterns and shapes and not actually gaining a full understanding of what they are doing. 

Often they think that playing guitar professionally is about being fast, or having great gear, but in reality, when they get their first session gig and the producer hands them the music and counts them in, they simply don't have the education to do the work.

Our aim is to create amazing musicians who understand and have complete control over what they play, not just play fast and messy. Learn how to understand songwriting and soloing. Understand how to actually play the guitar, not just memorising shapes and patterns. Get the right training first time so you don't waste years just learning AC/DC cover songs on electric guitar.