We're excited to announce that Your Guitar Academy are now providing guitar lessons for The Guitar Magazine. This UK wide guitar magazine has a massive reach, and we are so happy that they loved our lessons and asked us to work with them. We will be providing a brand new song lesson every week, featuring our top tutors.
Every week we are booking in new students for our talented tutors in London, and every week we receive brand new reviews highlighting just how much fun and progress is happening with our unique YGA system and incredible tutors. Read on to see just a few of this weeks reviews for some of our guitar tutors in London.
Want to learn to play acoustic guitar as a beginner? Look no further! We have put together an in-depth beginners acoustic guitar course that will take you from the absolute start of your playing, all the way up to playing through 3 full songs, strumming through chords quickly and having a good understanding of how the guitar works. It's also a hell of a lot of fun!
A massive Your Guitar Academy welcome to our newest tutor in London, Marco. Marco teaches from his super cool studio in Leyton, North East London. Marco is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet, and his friendly personality makes him very approachable as a tutor and a pleasure to have a lesson with. Combine that with his guitar skills and ability to break things down clearly, and you have an awesome tutor!
A massive Your Guitar Academy welcome to our newest tutor in London, Gero. Gero teaches from his awesome home studio in Streatham, South London. Gero is one of the best guitar players we have ever met, if not the best... And we have met a lot of guitarists! He's also extremely welcoming and a wonderful guitar tutor, with the ability to easily pass on his vast guitar knowledge.
In this blog post we discus how effective Skype lessons can be, and if they can ever equal face to face guitar lessons. We answeer that question coming from our years of experience teaching both and the answer may suprise you! Read on to find out more.
Join us in welcoming Todd to the Your Guitar Academy team in London. Todd is a fantastic playter and teacher, and has an impressive CV, as you'll see in this post. During our interview we were instantly impressed with Todd as he is extremely personable, easy to get on with and a true professional. We can see exactly why all his students love him!
Have fun jamming over this David Gilmour and Pink Floyd inspired backing track in the key of D minor. You can use a range of scales and arpeggios as the track only consists of two chords, a C major and a D minor. Try using your D minor pentatonic shapes, as well as the D minor scale and arpeggios, which we'll show you in this blog post.
Please join us in welcoming Connor to our fantastic team of tutors in London. Connor is easily one of the best guitar players we have ever met, and his teaching skill matches his playing. He is just as comfortable walking advanced players through epic Dream Theatre songs as he is teaching an absolute beginner the first few notes of the James Bond theme! please read on to find out all about Connor!
Check out this acoustic guitar lesson on how to play 'Isn't She Lovely' by Stevie Wonder from our live Facebook streams. Simone skillfully guides you through all the chords, meldoy parts and structure of this classic Stevie Wonder hit. It is such a cool song to play on the guitar, and great to sing along with as well!