by Simon Cassidy | May 27, 2012 | Featured New Owner, Featured Student, Product Review
I had the pleasure of seeing Guthrie Govan play with Bryan Beller (Bass) and Marco Minnemann (Drums) ~ “The Aristocrats” ~ with Nick and our better halves, Yoga and Anna, at the Cluny in Newcastle in March this Year. Nick had had his eye on one of the...
by Simon Cassidy | May 20, 2012 | Featured Student
Another special moment for me yesterday as one of my younger students Harry Downworth (aged 9) came in for his lesson with his Dad Michael and said “I’ve got a surprise for you…..” For a fleeting moment my mind scanned all of the potential...
by Simon Cassidy | May 19, 2012 | Featured Student, Uncategorized
I have had the pleasure of knowing the musical Green family for a few years now. First Bela started lessons as an accomplished Grade 8 Classical Guitarist who wanted a conversion course to Country / Blues / Rock Music – that worked and she now plays and sings...
by Simon Cassidy | May 19, 2012 | EKO Guitars, Electro-Acoustic Guitars, Featured Student, Uncategorized
Robyn was lucky enough to receive a surprise guitar package on Christmas morning and duly attended her first guitar lesson in the Christmas holidays. Robyn hadn’t touched a guitar before then and she hadn’t sang in public either. Since then she has worked...
by Simon Cassidy | Mar 31, 2012 | EKO Guitars, Electric Guitars, Featured Student
Young Jamie says he mentioned Kashmir at his lesson last week but I can’t remember, and we certainly didn’t do any work on it then. That didn’t stop 10 year old Jamie looking it up on youtube during the week, figuring out (almost) how to tune to...
by Simon Cassidy | Mar 8, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured Student, Product Review
Ok, so we know that Jimi Hendrix had limited (if no) choice about using left handed guitars so he restrung a standard right handed strat so he could play left handed – with his left hand strumming and his right hand on the fret board. We also know that in his...
