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guitar is a performance-based skill requiring interaction between musicians in
front of an audience. Group lessons give opportunities for this kind of interaction
in a way that private lessons cannot - great for those who have ambitions to play
in a band or do any kind of performing! | |  | | | | | | The
longer lesson time also provides more opportunity for practice and guidance inside
the lesson. Students learn from watching each other progress, make new friends
and of course group lessons are fun. | | | | | |
Group tuition is offered in terms. Each term consists of 12 weekly 1 hour lessons
plus a half term break. Lessons are grouped according to age and ability. | | | | | | | | | | | For
term times, prices, to check availability or to book an assesment please contact
Sarah. | | | | | | | |
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lessons are shorter than group lessons but are specifically tailored to the individual
student. | | | | | | |
Lessons are 30 minutes long and usually take place weekdays between 4.00 and 8.00pm.
For those who are availiable during the day Sarah also teaches all day Tuesdays
and Wednesdays. | | | | | | | For
more information or to book your lesson please contact
Sarah. | | | | | | | | | |
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you opt for private or group tuition the basic skills you need to learn to play
rock guitar well remain the same and are split into the following three areas. |
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play guitar you need a certain amount of coordination, timing and dexterity. To
regularly spend a small amount of time practicing manoeuvres that will help in
these areas will make learning to play the guitar not only easier and far less
frustrating, but will also make you a better player. You will find yourself attempting
your favourite song with ease, rather than struggling and making it sound bad
because it is technically too difficult or too fast for you. | | | The
technical exercises are done at the beginning of the lesson for two reasons. 1.
They will help you to warm up the tendons in your wrist and fingers without straining
them, and 2. It gets them out the way, leaving the rest of the lesson free for
the more entertaining things. Learning an instrument should be fun, not boring.
Very little progress would be made if you didn't enjoy learning and many would
give up. Therefore only a minimal amount of time will be spent on technical exercises,
especially if time at home has been spent on these and not just in the lessons! | | If
you are TECHNICALLY BRILLIANT on guitar - you should be able to play ANYTHING.
Right? | |
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is simply learning all the different techniques required to play guitar. You will
work your way through all the different techniques such as chord work, different
strumming patterns, using distortion, power chords, arpeggios, muting, soloing
and improvisation, band skills, using pedals etc....... Those are just a few!
You will find it rewarding everytime you learn a new technique. | | | Included
in this section is the dreaded THEORY work. Most people find theory fills them
with dread and the fear of boredom. Again this depends on how it is approached.
If you can see how useful it will be to your guitar playing and how much it will
help to make life easier you will soon find yourself wanting to know more. (Most
of the basic theory can be covered in only a few lessons leaving all the other
lessons free for the practical side.) | |
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is the fun part, where you get to put all your knowledge into practice and make
the sounds that motivated you to start learning guitar in the first place. Everyone
who plays guitar has a desire to play songs, not scales and technical exercises,
whether it be their own composition or their favourite band's songs. But to only
play songs and not cover the theory and techniques behind them would be learning
guitar parrot fashion. If you understand the technique used in the song, you will
be able to play any song that uses that same technique, making you a good all
round musician, that can play far more than just the songs Sarah teaches you within
your lessons. It will set you up for life. | | | You
will usually learn songs that put the technique you are currently working on into
practice. That way you will soon learn where everything is coming from and the
whole picture will start to make sense and come together much as a jigsaw puzzle
does. | |
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