by Jo Bywater | Mar 2, 2024 | Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons, Song Lessons
Having a few 3 chord songs under your belt is a great way to build up your strumming repertoire without over complicating things. Wicked Game by Chris Isaak is a beautiful and haunting song that’s lovely to sing along to. We have 3 chords and 2 strumming...
by Jo Bywater | Oct 4, 2023 | Guitar News, Online Guitar Lessons
After 23 years of living, gigging and teaching guitar in the amazing, vibrant City of Liverpool I have recently relocated to the beautiful green countryside of Staffordshire… After 3 weeks of living in the quiet where the noise of the city and suburbia has been...
by joclarke | May 2, 2023 | Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons
How do online guitar lessons compare with face to face ones? The burning question for many learners, and for good reason… I hear a real split of opinion from people in terms of their preconceptions that online lessons wouldn’t be as effective as sitting in...
by joclarke | Apr 24, 2023 | Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons, Women in Music
Learning to play guitar is fun, rewarding, challenging and creative. For those who choose to learn with a teacher it is a very significant part of the process to find the right teacher. There are many more male guitar teachers by comparison but there is an...
by joclarke | Feb 23, 2023 | Learning Guitar, Online Guitar Lessons
I generally compare scales to the alphabet… They’re good to know, but if you’re only going to repeat them in order, in an isolated fashion and out of context, it won’t help you speak the language. They will fall out of your head over time and at some...