RESIDENTIAL COURSES
The courses below are re-run regularly (with updated songs and subject matter). The list will give you an idea of what may be available; check out our What’s On page to see if any are scheduled to run later this year.
Generic courses:
- Beginners
- Strugglers
- Improvers
Styles and techniques:
- Improvisation
- Chord harmony
- Fingerstyle
Genres:
- Blues (many varieties)
- Rock
- Acoustic Folk
- Country
- Introduction to Jazz
- Introduction to Gypsy
- Americana
- and many more …
Themed:
- Many courses covering the songs and techniques of multiple artists/groups such as: The Beatles, The Eagles, The Stones, Eric Clapton,
- Owning a Jazz standard
- Fender driven – classic songs made famous by the strat and tele
Bass guitar:
- Playing practical bass
- Bass – from basic to intemediate techniques
And …
- Guitar maintenance
- Jam days
ONLINE SESSIONS
If you’re interested in any of the following, let us know as we might have the materials available to purchase (lesson PDFs and access to a Zoom recording of the live sessions).
Learn songs:
- The River Boat Song (Ocean Colour Scene)
- Three little Birds (Bob Marley)
- Hotel California (The Eagles)
- Hard Day’s Night (The Beatles)
- Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks)
- Just the two of us (Bill Withers)
- Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
- The Boxer (Simon and Garfunkel)
- Summer of ’69 (Bryan Adams)
- Lay Down Sally (Eric Clapton)
- Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- Walk of life (Mark Knopfler)
- Lyin’ Eyes (The Eagles)
- Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)
- Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
- Albatross (Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green)
- Come together (The Beatles)
- Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters)
- Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
- Sittin’ on the dock of the bay (Otis Redding)
- Knockin on heaven’s door (Bob Dylan)
- Crossroads (Eric Clapton/Cream)
- Stuck in the middle with you (Stealer’s Wheel)
- The shape of my heart (Dominic Miller, Sting)
- While my guitar genty weeps (George Harrison)
- Moon River (Henry Mancini)
- Oh well (Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green)
- Play that funky music (Wild Cherry)
Techniques:
- Melodic improvisation (series)
- Getting good tone!
- The Art of Strumming
- Fingerstyle primer
- Practise, play, repeat
- How to develop ninja rhythm skills
- Mastering the barre chord
- Putting barre chords into practice
- Scales and chords – they’re connected
- Rhythmic strumming
- Pentatonics across the fretboard
- Intro to fingerpicking the Blues
Genres:
- Blues Primer
- Introduction to jazz
- Rock primer
- Intro Gypsy jazz
- Giving a jazz standard the Gypsy treatment
Know-how and theory:
- The importance of ear training (series)
- Reading rhythm (series)
- Write a tune in 60 minutes
- The Creative Guitarist (series)
- Mixing licks and chords
- The 12 bar and beyond
- What is the Circle of 4ths and 5ths
- The CAGED system
- Major and minor pentatonics
- What are Drop 2, 3 and 4 chords
- How can you use triads
- Gear and getting that sound
- How key signatures work
- Transposition
- Modes
- Gear set-up
- Recording yourself
- Breaking out of the pentatonics
- Slide guitar and open tunings
- Modulation
- Finding the key
The styles of:
- Robben Ford
- Mark Knopfler
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- BB King
Bass guitar:
- Introduction ot the bass
- Boot camp
- Harmonic layering
- The Soul basslines of Stevie Wonder
- Taking your bass to the next level
Miscellaneous
- Playing guitar when things stop working!
We have the following course materials for sale:
Once purchased you will be given access to a folder to download the materials at your leisure.
