Guitar Lessons Basingstoke

Roll up, roll up. I am now a Skype guitar teacher. And lessons will be half price up until 16th April!

So if you're stuck inside for a protracted period feeling dispirited and despondent, allow me to recommend taking up the guitar. It has a solid track record of helping with the blues.

Hello everybody, who wants ten free guitar lessons?

I have a guitar teacher to train, and I'm looking for a student to volunteer him/herself.

Please respond only if you can come to my place in Brighton Hill, Basingstoke every Sunday afternoon.

The first person to respond, who is able to make that time regularly gets it.

I have a rare gap in my day this afternoon, anyone want a lesson?

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Strangely "classical guitar" and "playing classical music on the guitar" mean two very different things to us guitarists.

Classical guitar is a tradition - grown out of Spain actually - figures like Francisco Terrega (you may recognise from the Nokia ringtone) was particularly influential in the early days of "classical guitar". And like all traditions, it lives by the upholding of its conventions, which are generally as follows: playing a specific model of guitar with a wide neck, no truss rod, nylon strings, and a different type of bridge; picking with the fingers only; growing one's picking hand fingernails; positioning the foot opposite the picking hand on a footstool while playing and resting the guitar on that raised leg; a much higher than average insistence on the technique known as "rest stroke" from the outset; and its educational institutions are generally more focused on music reading and less on improvisation than other music educational models. Obvious examples of adherents to the "classical guitar" tradition are people like Julian Bream and John Williams, who are brilliant by the way.

However, you can play classical music of all varieties without buying into any of those idiosyncrasies, listen to Paul Gilbert or Tony McManus play Bach, Mattias Eklundh play Beethoven, Clive Carroll play O'Carolan, Yngwie Malmsteen play Paganini and Uli Jon Roth play Vivaldi for example to see that, as much as anything else, nylon has no monopoly on classical music for the guitar.

Have you watched Slash playing with Nile Rodgers and Chic on Le Freak live at the Budokan?

If your answer is yes, you may continue about your business.

If no, then you owe the god's of music 5 minutes of your time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsH5mT33Pg

chic and slash : le freak live from chic with slash come to play solo

Try writing a piece of music with the same restrictions as Bach's Prelude in C - single notes only, strict 16ths, one instrument.