YGA BLOG

12 May 2020

Two chords go a long way! In this lesson we show you how to play 2 easy chords on the guitar. If you're a beginner or even if you've never picked up a guitar before you can try these chords! Dan will take you through each chord in great detail, followed by showing how to use them to play "Horse With No Name" by America.

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22 April 2020

We are very excited to say that Your Guitar Academy will be on the radio and featured on the top UK websites for the next few weeks. With lockdown in full swing and people crying out for new activities to keep themselves busy and moving forward, learning the guitar has never been more popular. Whilst we are on the radio and broadcast to various major sites, we want to offer all new YGA students a 50% voucher to spend on our shop, to be used with any of our digital download courses. Read more to see how it works.

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24 March 2020

Dan walks you through a super cool Hendrix style lick that has been played over a modern soul backing track. This lesson will really help you with your CAGED chord and pentatonic crossover playing. So every time you play a CAGED chord, you have a pentatonic shape to work through as well!

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17 March 2020

We are excited to welcome the fantastic Radu to our team of Your Guitar Academy tutors in South West London. Radu has a real passion for teaching, a friendly personality and an unbelievable talent for the guitar. You can be confident that Radu is your man for guitar lessons in Wandsworth.

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16 March 2020

In this lesson Dan takes you through two important major 7th arpeggio shapes followed by showing you exactly how to use the shapes within your own improvisation. Taking a 1 to 4 progression in A major, we cover the essential knowledge you need to play through the changes.

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13 March 2020

We are excited to welcome the fantastic Luke to our team of Your Guitar Academy tutors inHigh Wycombe. Luke is an extremely professional, hard working and dedicated guitar tutor, ready to help you learn the guitar!

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13 March 2020

Guitar lessons in Ealing with our amazing guitar tutor Andy. We are proud to welcome the fantastic Andy to our team of Your Guitar Academy tutors in London. Andy is based in Acton, Ealing & ready to teach you how to play guitar!

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10 March 2020

In this lesson we start down the ear training road by learning intervals. An interval is simply the naming of the distance between two notes, based around the major scale. We cover the basic theory, answer the key questions, and then test your ear. If you want to develop this further, you'll find more tests available to download!

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3 March 2020

Take a journey through our favourite Foo Fighters intro riffs, learning how to play these masterpieces as we go. If you are a Foo Fighters fan then this is an absolute must for you! We team up with Guitar Pro to also bring you the full tab for each track.

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21 February 2020

We're excited to announce that for the next 7 days you can buy our brand new bundle "50 Awesome Backing Tracks" for just £9.99. That's a ridiculously cheap 19p per track! As this is such a giveaway, this is very much a one-time thing as a thank you to all our students. This bundle will disappear on the 1st March, so act fast!

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