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Cameron Hayes

Tags: Guitar technique, Guitar tips, Guitar tips for beginners, How to improve your guitar technique, Music theory for guitar

About Cameron Hayes

Cameron Hayes is a guitar educator at the London Guitar Institute, teaching a wide range of styles such as rock, metal, blues, jazz, folk, RnB, acoustic, and many more! He teaches a large volume of students on a weekly basis and always looks to provide outstanding value in each and every lesson!

How to improve your guitar technique

2024-10-12T11:37:51+01:00

Something that is often skipped over in the early stages of learning, guitar technique will affect all aspects of your playing! Don’t take shortcuts by breezing over the basics. Make your playing the best it can be by improving your guitar technique! Fundamentals The most logical place to start when wanting to improve your guitar technique is with the fundamentals, as many players skip over these in order to jump to playing their favourite songs! This is one of the major hurdles I find as a guitar tutor when taking on a new student who is mainly self-taught, or [...]

How to improve your guitar technique2024-10-12T11:37:51+01:00

How to Prepare for a Musical Performance: Learn the Notes and Beat the Stage Fright!

2024-09-16T21:05:03+01:00

Learn The Songs It sounds obvious, but the first place to start when preparing for a live performance is to learn the songs! If you’re an original artist playing your own music, then you’ll likely already have the songs written that you’re going to play, but if you’re a cover band or tribute act, then there may be some material to learn before you think about anything else. Not only do you have to start off by learning the music, but also think about how you are going to learn the music. Will you be playing everything completely by memory [...]

How to Prepare for a Musical Performance: Learn the Notes and Beat the Stage Fright!2024-09-16T21:05:03+01:00

Is There Any Point to Learning Scales, or Are They Only Good as a Warm-Up Exercise?

2024-09-16T21:07:56+01:00

Yes, it’s great to run through some scales to warm up your fingers before jumping into your most recent song that you’re working on, but is that all that they’re good for? Absolutely not! Here are just a few examples of when you can draw on your knowledge of scales to make yourself a better guitarist and musician. Improvising One major area of playing an instrument that will require knowledge of scales is when you are improvising. Improvising will require prior knowledge of not only how to play scales on the guitar (or your instrument of choice), but when it [...]

Is There Any Point to Learning Scales, or Are They Only Good as a Warm-Up Exercise?2024-09-16T21:07:56+01:00

What Do I Need To Do When Travelling By Plane With My Guitar

2024-08-06T18:19:16+01:00

It’s never an easy thing to do, but handing your precious guitars and instruments over to the baggage handlers at the airport is one sure way to boost the anxiety in any musician. But what steps can you take to ensure the safety of your prized possessions? Here are a few tips to keep your guitars safe during air travel. A Good Case Rule #1, when travelling by air with your guitar, is to make sure you fly it in a good case. Hard cases are usually the best bet, and even going the extra mile from the flimsy case [...]

What Do I Need To Do When Travelling By Plane With My Guitar2024-08-06T18:19:16+01:00

Low Noise And Silent Amp Options For Home Guitar Practise

2024-08-06T18:11:36+01:00

The unfortunate reality for most of us is that we aren’t able to crank our big powerful tube amps when practicing at home. But how can we get that desired tone at low or no noise for home practice? Amp Modelers A very popular option for not only home practice but live guitar performances over the last 15 years or so have been amp modelers, which offer the cranked sounds of many different iconic amps all in one small unit. I have personally been using the Line 6 HX Stomp for the past 4 years or so, for both live [...]

Low Noise And Silent Amp Options For Home Guitar Practise2024-08-06T18:11:36+01:00

How to Practise if You Only Have Limited Free Time to Commit

2024-06-28T13:15:41+01:00

Practising guitar: one of the weekly tasks that often fall by the wayside for some of us with busy lives. So how do we find the time to practise if we only have limited free time to commit? Schedule in your practise Gym training, school pickups, your kid's basketball game, after-work drinks with your buddies, date night. Life is busy, and no matter where we look, it is often hard to find a little slice of free time for guitar practice. This is why it will be incredibly important and valuable for us to schedule in our practice time. Just [...]

How to Practise if You Only Have Limited Free Time to Commit2024-06-28T13:15:41+01:00

Getting Back to Guitar After the Holidays (how to get back in the groove!)

2024-06-28T13:11:00+01:00

Going on holidays is lots of fun, but often when we come home we find that our fingers don’t want to do what we tell them to do when picking up a guitar for the first time. Try these simple tips for getting back in the groove with your guitar practice after returning from a holiday.Start simpleThere are positives and negatives about coming home from a holiday. Positives: you had a great time, you come home feeling refreshed, you now have a sun tan.Negatives: you get the post holiday blues, you have to go back to work, you fingers are now [...]

Getting Back to Guitar After the Holidays (how to get back in the groove!)2024-06-28T13:11:00+01:00

How to Improve Your Guitar Chord Vocabulary

2024-06-03T13:12:17+01:00

Exploring the world of guitar chords can be a fun journey when you realise that there is much more beyond open position cowboy chords and barre chords! But where do you start when wanting to improve your guitar chord vocabulary? Seventh chords, and beyond! Chords - all (or most) guitarists love them! In fact, if you’re a guitarist that doesn’t love chords, then you’ve probably gone wrong somewhere, or perhaps you just haven’t been using the right ones yet. Yes chords can get quite boring if you’re just doing open position major and minor chords, and perhaps branching out into [...]

How to Improve Your Guitar Chord Vocabulary2024-06-03T13:12:17+01:00

How to Play Rhythm Guitar in a Band

2024-06-06T08:43:34+01:00

Often overlooked, the art of being a great rhythm guitarist is so much more than strumming chords and having to be quieter than the lead guitarist. It’s actually the rhythm guitarist that has the skill of gluing the band together and giving impact to their sound. So how do you play rhythm guitar in a band? Study the greats A logical place to start when trying to get good at rhythm guitar is to study great rhythm players from great bands that you admire. Although many of these are names that you will know from some of the biggest bands of [...]

How to Play Rhythm Guitar in a Band2024-06-06T08:43:34+01:00

The Greatest Guitar Solos Used in Movies

2024-04-30T21:57:14+01:00

Looking to take a break from practising guitar and relax over watching a film? How about seeing some of these greatest guitar solos used in movies? Here is a list to get you started. https://youtu.be/wcW8SvbnJYE?si=wAXlHk5qgo4g58B_ Back to the future One of the most talked about guitar scenes in movies that I am aware of, and in fact the movie that is the reason why many guitar players first picked up the instrument, is Back To The Future (1985), with its infamous “Johnny B. Goode” scene. This scene sees character Marty McFly playing the Chuck Berry classic at his parents high school [...]

The Greatest Guitar Solos Used in Movies2024-04-30T21:57:14+01:00
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