How To Take Guitar Exams 2021 The way we take guitar exams has changed since COVID-19 has arrived. This post should give you all you need to know on how to take guitar exams in 2021. In March 2020 face to face guitar exams were cancelled due to Coronavirus. My students at the time were given the opportunity to have a refund, or do what is called a Digital Assessment. I am glad to say all of my students took and passed the Digital Assessment. In this post I will go through electric guitar exams with Trinity College Rock And Pop This is also...
read more2020 Review 2020 Review Here is a review of 2020. What an extraordinary year in every sense of the word. We all remember around this Christmas time last year we started to get news of a deadly flu like strain emerging in China. I don’t think many of us ever thought it was going to reach British shores or travel the globe the way it has. Kick up the 80’s had a full diary for the year. We also had a flight to Guernsey booked. It was going to be our first gigs off the mainland. Everything was going great until March. Kick up the 80’s played...
read moreGuitar Exam News And More I hope everyone is keeping safe and well. Since going into lockdown I have continued teaching by doing online guitar lessons. This has been a big learning curve for me and many others as we adapt to the new normal While looking to new technology to help us through. Over the last few months I have been working hard to bring you the best online guitar lessons that I can. Embracing new technology in order to make this possible. In this post I am going to give you exam news and more! Online Guitar Lesson Technology To...
read moreIs There A Better Time To Learn Guitar? Is There a better time to start to learn guitar? I have to say No there isn’t. It is 2020 There is a global pandemic happening. The United Kingdom is in lockdown. Have ever dreamt of playing the guitar or any other musical instrument? Then now is the time to get going. You will probably never have this amount of free time ever again. Use your time wisely and not waste the free time you have at the moment. Online Lessons I am now giving online lessons. All of these lessons are one to one lessons....
read moreGuitar Lessons Online Online guitar lessons available now! Due to the outbreak of Coronavirus I have decided to make online lessons available. I have done some extensive research on this over the past week, and I believe I will be using the best platform I can find to conduct these lessons. Personally my opinion was Facetime or Whatsapp was not good enough to teach guitar through. There would be too many issues with sound, poor picture quality and too many drop outs. The platform I am using you will hear what I am playing exactly the same as...
read moreCoronavirus Update Coronavirus Update The current situation with the Coronavirus COVID-19 is obviously very serious for us all. I am taking every precaution to keep everyone safe. Regular washing of hands and sanitising is paramount for us all. There will be hand sanitiser here as long as I can supply this. At this moment in time I do have hand sanitiser. I will update / edit this page as things develop. Over the next few weeks the only change to lessons will be that I will not be tuning your guitar and asking students to tune their own...
read moreTrinity College Rock and Pop Guitar Exams Guitar Exams Why Take Guitar Exams? Guitar exams help develop technical and performance skills in order to help the student achieve their musical ambitions. Guitar exams also give the student a real goal to aim for. I have entered literally hundreds of students into guitar exams. All exams are by an external examination board. The exam boards I currently use are Trinity College of London for electric guitar exams and London College of music for acoustic guitar. Both exam boards offer internationally...
read moreKick Up The 80S Kick Up The 80s This is currently the band Anthony plays guitar in. It is the longest running 80s tribute band in The U.K. Anthony joined Kick up the 80s in 2000 after a 10 year stint with Tranzam a classic rock tribute band. Before joining Kick up The 80’S he also played in The 7Teez a popular 70’s tribute band. This was with the Bass player from Tranzam and the drummer from Kick up The 80s. This was set up as a project in order to play more gigs. Anthony has been gigging since he was 15 years old doing his first...
read moreAndy Neville’s Guitar Workshop Andy Neville’s Guitar Workshop I get asked many times who I recommend and who I trust to work on my guitar’s and I highly recommend Andy Neville’s Guitar Workshop In Wolverhampton. Andy is based in Fryer Street Wolverhampton.You can contact him 07792 785628 or check him out on Facebook by clicking HERE. I have known Andy many years and for my students local to Wolverhampton this is the man for guitar setups and repairs. One Way Music Andy worked in One Way Music for many years. This must...
read moreGuitar 2020 Learning Guitar 2020 Thinking of learning guitar in 2020 ? Maybe as a new years resolution or something you have always wanted to do. Then there is no time like the present. Before purchasing a guitar make sure you are comfortable sitting with it. This could be in your lap for many hours if you start to really enjoy playing guitar. Acoustic or Electric Acoustic or electric is really down to the individual on what style they want to play. They both essentially have six strings. Lots of people start with acoustic before going...
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