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Online Tuition

Beginners: Lesson 1
Study piece: 'Summer Time'
Standard tuning
Electric or acoustic
Learn how to mute with both hands
Develop accuracy
Improve intonation
Play melody lines

Beginners: Lesson 1 is £10
for unlimited viewing

 

Intermediate: Lesson 1
Study piece: New Orleans style groove (Roy Rogers inspired)
Open D tuning
Acoustic
Hybrid picking
Regular rhythm playing mixed with slide lines

Intermediate: Lesson 1 is £10
for unlimited viewing

 

Advanced: Lesson 1
Study piece: Sonny Landreth style shuffle
Open E tuning
Electric
Fretting behind the slide
Rhythmic use of ghostnotes and overtones

Advanced: Lesson 1 is £10
for unlimited viewing

 

One to one tuition

Based in Guildford town centre (south east UK)
Longer lessons available for pupils travelling from further away.
Beginners and improvers welcome.
£25.00 per hour.

Masterclasses


Masterclass at The Academy of Contemporary Music, June 2010


Masterclass at the Southampton Academy of Music and Sound, July 2010

Available as a presentation to larger groups.
Discusses the history of slide playing.
Condensed lesson plan to suit class ability.
Demonstrates different styles and techniques.

Outline of lesson plan
Getting Started:
  • Who inspires you?
  • Electric or acoustic?
  • A dedicated guitar?
  • Your role in the band: only slide or regular guitar too?
  • Action & string gauge
  • Tunings
  • Brass, glass or steel?
  • Getting comfortable wearing a slide - which finger?
  • Picking - fingers, plectrum or combination?
  • Good posture
The Basics:
  • Accuracy
  • Muting exercises - standard tuning first
  • Intonation
  • Vibrato = expression
  • Rhythm - use of pick, use of slide
Mapping Out The Neck:
  • 1, 4, 5 chords and relative minor
  • Melody on one string
  • The use of scales
  • Blues box shapes
  • Country open string positions
  • Double stops
Developing Your Vocabulary:
  • Playing in different keys
  • Pros and cons of using a capo
  • Improvising - the sweet notes - taste - less is more
  • Acoustic blues
  • Electric blues
  • Blues/rock
  • Bluegrass/folk
Expanding Your Technique:
  • Fretting behind the slide
  • Octave lines
  • Overtones and ghost notes
  • Violining - fake pedal steel
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