Guitar styles and techniques taught

We teach the following guitar styles:

Depending upon your individual musical goals we will teach you some of the following concepts and techniques:

• Hammer-ons
• Pull-offs
• Vibrato
• Tremolo
• Speed Picking
• 3 Octave Chromatic Scale Practice
• Develop your right hand (Classical guitar) with fingering combinations (R.H – im, mi, am, ma, ai, ia, xi, ix, pa, ap, ip, pi)
• Practicing without the left hand
• How to NOT give up!
• Sweep Picking
• Jazz Chords (across the entire neck)
• Memorising all the notes
• Jazz Triads
• Walking Bass
• Neo-Classical Metal scales along 1 string
• Blues Licks
• 6 Note Scales
• String Skipping
• Developing a sense of time
• Poly-rhythms
• Basic strumming
• Tuning the guitar
• Changing strings
• Buying a guitar (what to look for)
• Tone
• Attitude
• The guitar works in 5 positions
• The guitar has a nature
• Learning the nature
• Practicing away from the guitar
• Photographic memory
• Practicing on the taxi/plane/bus/car etc…
• Practicing on the beach
• Using your “waiting” time as practice time
• “Secrets” of the guitar
• How to make your guitar sing
• How to make your guitar scream
• Powerchords
• Intervals
• Subdivisions of octaves or subdivisions of X across X amount of octaves
• Understanding classical harmony
• Understanding jazz harmony
• Incorporating tapping guitar
• Maintaining a practice schedule
• The importance of a practice journal (or log book) – TRACKING and MEASURING
• The psychology of learning the guitar
• Maintaining a positive frame of mind
• Motivating yourself to the next level
• Have a long term vision
• Short, medium term goals
• Practicing with a clock/schedule and practicing without a clock/schedule
• Making fans happy
• Creating harmony within a band
• Leading a band
• Playing with others
• Keeping your head above the water in a storm
• Improvising
• Improvising blues
• Improvising NEO-Classical
• Improvising Vai/Satriani type licks
• Improvising McLaughlin/DiMeola/De Lucia type- licks
• Improvising over a fast moving jazz standard
• Not losing your place in a jazz improvisation
• Improvising fusion
• Funk riffs
• Funk strums
• Speed picking and rhythmic groupings
• Speed picking on the classical guitar
• Classical guitar interpretation
• Classical VS Jazz VS Rock
• How to strum chords properly
• How to pick using a plectrum
• How to pick using your fingers
• Make your friends happy with the guitar
• Repertoire
• Memorisation skills
• Solving the root cause of a problem
• Soloing with “feel”
• How to develop a SINGLE-MINDED focus (under severe adversity)
• And other relevant concepts…