by Simon Cassidy | Oct 28, 2012 | Featured Student, Guitar Lessons
If you’re beginning to wish there was more to life than X Factor then try out the new entries to our Top Student Videos Features. Again it’s the brave young people leading the way with Jamie Davies-Sen at 11 years of age storming into the charts at No 1...
by Simon Cassidy | Aug 24, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured Student, Guitar Lessons
I have known Peter and Josh for sometime now. Josh started lessons first around 3 years ago and has progressed well and is now singing and playing in his band Mean Plastic Sharks. Josh’s Dad Peter followed on starting lessons a couple of years ago – and...
by Simon Cassidy | Feb 19, 2012 | Acoustic Guitars, Featured New Owner, Featured Student, Guitar Lessons, Music Theory
Earning a living as a guitar teacher is really one of the most satisfying things I have ever done. Buying, selling, fixing and talking about guitars, guitarists and guitar music to enthusiastic students is a pretty good place to be for me. But the variety of people I...
by Simon Cassidy | Feb 5, 2012 | Guitar Lessons, Product Review
An interesting couple of days…… Nick Poole came along for his lesson on Thursday and we were working on rhythm playing by playing along with drum tracks I have on my BOSS BR-1200 Digital Recording Studio. “But what about practice between...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 5, 2012 | Guitar Lessons
These are the basic scale patterns in the open string position which will very quickly become the building blocks for your improvised solos in all major and minor keys. If you click on the image below you will be able to see it more clearly. The bottom (lowest note)...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 3, 2012 | Acoustic Guitars, Featured Student, Guitar Lessons
Fame finally caught up with Sid Hill recently in a somewhat unexpected way following his launch onto the www thanks to Youtube. Sid came into his lesson last week and said “You’ll never guess what my window cleaner said to me last week…..He said...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 1, 2012 | Acoustic Guitars, EKO Guitars, Electric Guitars, Electro-Acoustic Guitars, Featured Student, Gator Cases, Guitar Accessories, Guitar Amplifiers, Guitar Cases and Gig Bags, Guitar Lessons, New Products
2011 has been a great year for me and Sundance Guitars in relation to teaching and guitar sales. Many thanks to my customers from the UK, Europe and around the world for your continued support. We trust your are delighted with the products supplied by us and we hope...
by Simon Cassidy | Dec 26, 2011 | Electric Guitars, Guitar Lessons
Timing. Phrasing and Groove So you have learned all those scales and chords and you are starting to be able to play quite a few songs and maybe even a few tasty guitar solos. Now we should consider your position as a guitarist in a band. No matter how good you get you...
by Simon Cassidy | Dec 24, 2011 | Electric Guitars, Featured Student, Guitar Lessons, Uncategorized
My first contact with Brian was in July 2009. He called me and said he was looking for guitar lessons and had a challenge for me – he was 60 in November 2010 and wanted to play in a band at his birthday party. Brian had played a bit as a teenager, but life then got in...
by Simon Cassidy | Dec 23, 2011 | Electric Guitars, Guitar Lessons
If you have just got a new guitar and you want to learn how to play it then it would be a good idea to start to learn about how it all works. This involves learning the names of the various parts of the guitar then understanding their function. Click on the...
