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...
