Top 10 Best Guitar classes, courses, learnings kits and gifts in the UK

Classes and courses now available from September! Whether your want to go from beginner to pro, do the Grades, learn a new style, need inspiration or just learn your favourite songs, Leon; guitarist for Joss Stone & Natty and many more, takes you wherever you want to go on your instrument. Leon has been teaching guitar professionally since 2006. With a huge love for teaching, he feels the reward himself as much as his dedicated students. Whether it be 1 to 1, small/large groups or workshops; Leon's style of teaching is based on inspiration. This may be through encouraging creativity, relating all things taught to the real world or to what the student is into, or even just inspiring the student as a musician/personality. Leon adapts to each students interests, personality and needs. Tailoring lessons to suit the student. Each student is different. It is important for the students to feel relaxed during lessons. The student should expect a very informal atmosphere, yet a productive session every time. A student should never feel intimidated, or feel that the lesson is in anyway a chore. Lessons can cover: Technique, music theory, sight-reading, composition, songwriting, improvisation, arranging, producing, performing, song repertoire and different musical/players/session styles. Alongside this Leon provides knowledge of the music industry through his own experiences as a professional working musician within the industry.

Classes and courses now available from September! Whether your want to go from beginner to pro, do the Grades, learn a new style, need inspiration or just learn your favourite songs, Leon; guitarist for Joss Stone & Natty and many more, takes you wherever you want to go on your instrument. Leon has been teaching guitar professionally since 2006. With a huge love for teaching, he feels the reward himself as much as his dedicated students. Whether it be 1 to 1, small/large groups or workshops; Leon's style of teaching is based on inspiration. This may be through encouraging creativity, relating all things taught to the real world or to what the student is into, or even just inspiring the student as a musician/personality. Leon adapts to each students interests, personality and needs. Tailoring lessons to suit the student. Each student is different. It is important for the students to feel relaxed during lessons. The student should expect a very informal atmosphere, yet a productive session every time. A student should never feel intimidated, or feel that the lesson is in anyway a chore. Lessons can cover: Technique, music theory, sight-reading, composition, songwriting, improvisation, arranging, producing, performing, song repertoire and different musical/players/session styles. Alongside this Leon provides knowledge of the music industry through his own experiences as a professional working musician within the industry.

In this lesson, students will learn advanced guitar techniques (arpeggios enclosures, bebop scales, odd time signatures, retrograde approach, polyrhythms, etc.). This class has been designed to help the student develop an arsenal of techniques and skills which are necessary for mastering the instrument and follow a career as a professional musician or guitar tutor in the future. Some of this lesson's topics include styles' tuning and arrangement techniques for contemporary styles. Students will learn how to arrange different musical instruments and develop advanced harmony and songwriting skills. Furthermore, during these lessons the students are trained to recognise extended chords and harmonic changes in tunes by ear while they will be taught how to write music scores and lead sheets effectively. Scores from West End theatre shows are provided to the students to help them understand, practise and reach a level of competitive skills in the relevant field of the music industry. These lessons are also designed to prepare the students for exam grades: RGT Grades 6, 7 & 8 RSL Grades 6, 7 & 8 Any other music exam upon request

Technique is like the foundations of a building. It may take some time to develop, but all future progress depends on it. Without good basic technique your guitar playing can never sound really good no matter how much you practice. If you've seen a building going up, you might have noticed that clearing the ground and laying foundations is a process that can take some time, and in this time not a lot appears to be happening. Once the foundations are completed though, the building work can progress very quickly. Similarly, once you acquire the basic skills of guitar playing, you can learn the different scales, licks etc without too much trouble. If the basics aren't sound, though, you're likely to hit a point beyond which you can't progress. You then have to go back and relearn the basics - and thats no fun!