Guitar Lessons Bristol - Beginners Guitar - Guitar Lessons Bristol

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Student Testimonial

"After planning to learn guitar for 8 years I decided the time had come to get some lessons.

I have had 1 lesson a week for just over a year and thanks to Luke's excellent teaching skills and structured approach I have progressed from a complete beginner to playing all manner of songs on acoustic through to lead blues licks on my electric guitar.

After 6 months with Luke I had learnt enough to allow me to compose 2 songs and feel confident to play in front of friends, an amazing feeling. I would highly recommend Luke to anyone starting out or looking to progress their skills to the next level.

Thanks Luke for all your help."
- Neil

Beginners Guitar - Acoustic or Electric

All our tutors specialize in beginners tuition. The guitar is a great instrument for a beginning musician as in quite a short time you can learn enough to play along with a huge number of songs.

We have taught many, many students completely from scratch - people of all ages, with all sorts of different musical backgrounds, many (or most) of which had no prior musical knowledge or experience.

We aim to teach you the basics, then move on to music YOU like as quick as possible. If you want to work from books we can do this, but we will always provide you with music that you feel excited to pick up and play at home.

The aims of 'Strumming Guitar' lessons are:

To be able to play a very wide range of open and barre chords
To be able to play comfortably in any time signature with any strumming pattern
To be able to read the chords from any chord book so you can play along with any song
For advanced students, we will even develop your musical ear so you will be taught how to 'pick the chords out' from a song, or write your own chord sequences

What are lessons like?

Many students wonder what having lessons will be like - for many people guitar is the first instrument they've ever learned. For others, they may have prior experience learning an instrument that they didn't enjoy - for example unwanted instrumental lessons at school, possibly with a stern/ strict tutor, studying music they didn't like. Here's a few pointers about what to expect from guitar lessons with me:

The environment at the music school is busy but very relaxed and friendly. There is a waiting room with music magazines and a place to make tea and coffee if you want it.
Your tutor will never chastise you for not doing practice or make you feel bad. It is our job to motivate and inspire, and sometimes, to pick up you up and keep you on track.
Your tutor will be interested in finding out the music you enjoy to play, and basing the lessons on this as far as is possible/ sensible.
You will always have a clear idea of how, what and why to practice at home.
Your tutor will keep notes on your' lessons and if you are unclear on what to practice during the week you can email during the week to clarify
We don't expect any prior musical experience. For example, if you're worried you have no sense of rhythm, (the chances of this are extremely remote), do not fear - we have teaching methods that will allow any student to become a competent guitarist

1 to 1 Tuition

This is the traditional way of teaching guitar and the benefits are that you get a lot of personal and targeted feedback, as well as being able to choose exactly what you want to play. If you have specific personal aims and goals, or questions that you feel you need answered and addressed in a personal way, then 1 to 1 Tuition is the best way.

Double / Triple Lessons