Debut Album From A J Green Debut album from A J Green is out now. It contains 10 songs 9 original songs and one haunting cover of Walk The Line by Johnny Cash. This is now available on here and also Spotify, Deezer, I Tunes, and all major music download sites worldwide. The album was recorded at Anthony’s home studio. He has played all instruments on this album and also sang all the vocals and drum programming. This is the same studio where guitar lessons take place. Anthony had a few of these songs kicking around...
read moreGuitar lessons in School Guitar Lessons in school. This term Anthony will be running guitar lessons in schools around South Satffordshire and Wolverhampton area including the following Brewood C OF e Middle School St Johns CE (VC) First School Bishops wood St Michael’s First School Penkridge Anthony has been teaching as a peripatetic tutor in school’s since 2010. If your child is going to be taking guitar lessons for the first time or already taking guitar lessons here is some information that may help. What Guitar? For beginners...
read moreI am proud to say that St Michael’s First School Penkridge has achieved the Staffordshire Music Hub’s Silver award. I work there as a peripatetic teacher along side John Sharman who teaches Keyboards, Piano and Brass Instruments. We work in coordination with Miss Challinor the music subject leader. This allows children quality music lessons on a weekly basis which allows the children to develop their music skills. Mrs Sharman also runs a popular choir for children from years 2-4. The children enjoying performing in...
read moreRockschool Grade 7 Distinction For Jordan Jordan Parton started guitar lessons with me in 2009 in 2010 he did his debut exam and passed with Distinction. When he first came to me for lessons. He told me he wanted to play guitar because he had seen video’s of AC/DC. Since starting to learn guitar with me Jordan has taken all of his grades up to grade 7. He has always worked hard on his guitar and is always focused in his guitar lessons. He practises everyday for 30 minutes. You can check out Jordan’s Performance of The Pants Era...
read moreAcoustic Guitar Exams Acoustic Guitar Exams are now available. You can either do the full grade where you go to an exam centre, or a performance exam that can be a video upload to RGT. There has been over the last year or so more students are wanting to take up acoustic guitar. I think this could be down to a certain person called Ed Sheeran. I have always taught acoustic and electric guitar, but all the students doing exams have done so through Rockschool. However seeing as the acoustic guitar has become popular. I now also...
read moreLearning New Songs Vs Old Songs Learning new songs Vs learning old songs. Over the last few months I have been busy updating my media page with videos from my Youtube channel. Having originally trying to pick some great guitar tunes which were testing to play. They were old songs and after a couple of months they had around 200 views. Which was not bad as it was my first videos on to Youtube. Apart from some videos of my pupils playing graded songs. I had at this point not posted any new songs from the charts. I heard a song on the...
read moreHighest Score At Rockschool Debut Exam Here is William Foggin. He has just past his debut guitar exam with distinction, and has the highest marks of any of my students ever at this level. William passed his exam with a massive 98%. So congratulations to William. He is 12 years old and he has been having lessons for around 18 months. After learning to read music he decided he wanted to take his grades. Rockschool exams are taken one to one with a Rockschool examiner and each grade is a worldwide recognised qualification. William practises...
read more8 Year Old Passes Rockschool Debut Exam With Distinction Congratulations to Chetan my youngest pupil so far to pass a Rockschool exam. Not only did Chetan pass the exam. He passed with distinction with a massive 92%. Chetan is 8 years old, and has only been playing for just over a year. He loves music and the challenge of playing guitar. He practises for just 15 to 20 minutes every day, and has a half hour lesson a week. You can can see the results that can be achieved in a short time, by dedicating just a few minutes a day to playing...
read moreShooting Guitar Video in Wolverhampton Over the last few weeks I have decided to shoot some videos of my guitar playing in my guitar studio in Wolverhampton. You can find these on my You Tube Channel by following this link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0OIhqGqEvJO6cwEULVY9Ag or on the media page on this website. I have at the moment have posted a Michael Schenker instrumental called Into The Arena the original track by Michael Schenker can be found on Michael Schenker’s first album. This is a track that I really enjoyed learning to...
read moreSky Arts are dong a new television series of Guitar Star which is a talent competition to search the UK and Ireland for an extraordinary guitar player. The new series is starting soon and I have been called by Sky Arts to see if I would like to enter the competition. Unfortunately due to gigging and teaching commitments I would not be able to commit to giving this opportunity the time it would need. However I am sure I have a few more advanced pupils who would be up for the challenge. I have a contact name and number and awaiting further...
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