Starting Guitar | Intermediates
Electric Guitar
I play the electric and steel strung acoustic guitar
and teach blues, rock, pop, metal styles and associated theory, harmony, chords,
soloing, techniques. Pretty much everything from the last 40+
years that you'd hear on Radios 1 & 2, G.W.R., Kiss and
Magic. I put special emphasis on the last five years as that's
what most of my students would be familiar with. But some of
the oldies are always around. Almost every student will ask to
learn to play 'Smoke on the Water', 'Sweet Home Alabama', 'The 007 Theme'
and plenty more of that sort of solo guitar standard.
If you
want classical, flamenco, jazz, or Latin, I have occasionally
taught these styles and even went over to Jerez, Spain in November
2004 to take a course in flamenco. But what I learnt was the
need to focus and not spread my styles so widely. I was even
invited back to Spain - "wow, I must have really impressed them with
my progress....." but no - this was to play the blues - "Chris
you're Flamenco is, how you say in England, Crap?" I'm
focusing on rock, blues, metal and pop, alongside some finger-style
and bluegrass flatpicking.
Mostly, I get
asked to teach what students hear regularly from their CD collection
and the radio; pop, blues, metal and rock - the ballads, anthems
and standards. The sort of tracks you hear in the charts or on
those 'best of ' guitar albums like the 'Best Air Guitar Album in the
World I, II, and III'. If that's your vibe, you're in the right place.
Playing and Teaching
I play AND teach. As the
bass player and a singer with the local Devizes band, "Insomnia", and a
guitarist and acoustic instrument player and singer in the duo "Cocktail-ROCK". I
experience regular live playing.
That means I understand what's important and what's not; the
fundamentals that get you playing well as soon as possible. If you
want to do the exams, we can focus you on what will get you through.
Tuition and Exams - Options and Costs
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£11
per 30 minutes or £20 an hour
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These
costs include a lot of support material but not the costs for
books and CD / DVDs you might want to use.
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You
can take lessons weekly, 2 weekly or big chunks of 3-4 hours
every three months or so - I have students who do all of these.
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If you want to
do exams, I tend to teach the Trinity syllabus which is the "Rockschool" set of exams. Trinity and Guildhall have recently
amalgamated and I like the materials and the way in which you can
learn pieces rather than just improvising to chord sets.
You don't need to read standard notation either.
Lesson 1 - TB
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