Guitar Lessons Chiswick | Philip Short
Guitar Lessons Chiswick
Name of Guitar Teacher for guitar lessons Chiswick - Philip Short
Guitar Teaching Location
I teach guitar lessons in West London Including Ealing, Richmond, Chiswick, Acton and Hammersmith plus surrounding areas including Turnham Green.
Guitar Qualifications
2008 Achieved Grade8 in the RGT syllabus in 2008.
May 2011 will have completed Popular Music Performance BMUS (Hons) At tech music school in west London (University of west London) specilising in electric guitar.
Guitar Experience
- Performed live with band “Forgotten” for BBC Children in need 2005, East midlands regional Channel.
- Exclusive Radio Play with band “Forgotten” in 2006 with Derby Radio.
- 2006 – 2008 Toured with UK Metal band Eye of Osiris, playing venues including The Cavern club (main stage) in Liverpool and Music Box in Manchester.
- 2008 -2009 Gigged with UK pop singer Elle Jay (Elation Records) Playing venues including the 02 Islington, Café de Pari (Leicester square) and Spice of Life (soho)
- 2009 – Present: Founded and gigs with UK covers band Flip Side UP, performing all over London, has a monthly residency and plays walk about venues and private functions. http://www.myspace.com/flipsideuprockmusic
- 2009- Present: Works as guitarist for UK Jazz company Blue Flamingo Entertainments (www.blueflamingoents.com)
- August 2010: Completed a US Tour with Blue Flamingo entertainments in association with the World Equestrian Games http://www.blueflamingomusic.com
- October 19th 2010: Ronnie Scotts session with Maltese Artist Brooke (No.1 in Maltese Charts with single, Love Not War) (www.brookemusic.com)
- November 2010 – February 2011: Guitarist and MD for Brooke, doing gigs supporting UK R n B artist, Ramzi @ the Gallery in Hendon. http://www.ramziofficial.com
- March 24th 2011: BBC Radio 1 session at BBC Maida Vale playing guitar for live recording for new and upcoming artist, Aaron Delahunty. http://www.aarondelahunty.com
UPCOMING SHOWS
- Glastonbury
- Royal Albert Hall 7th May
- Tech Music School Graduation – O2 Empire Shepherds Bush – June
Guitar Teaching Style
I teach guitar lessons Chiswick in an informal and friendly style, customising the teaching material to suit the students needs and wants.
I use a mixture of Books and hand outs with CD’s for bacing tracks and examples for students to practice with.
Often the first lesson will usually go as follows. We’ll have a chat and (depending your level) I will get you to play over a simple backing track to analyse where you are with your playing. We’ll have a chat about the sorts of things you’d like to learn and which direction to take.
If the student feels comfortable with me being their teacher and likes the sound of the program of what we talked about then we can carry on from there.
Guitar Playing Specialities
I teach electric guitar as a main study, but at a students request we can cover some basic approaches to acoustic guitar playing.
I teach all modern styles of guitar playing, but specialise in teaching rock based guitar styles.
Areas of study covered are Picking techniques, Legato, string bending, vibrato and two handed tapping techniques.
As well as covering technical approaches to the guitar, we will also study musical theory. This is taught in a way that you will be able to use in your own playing to help you break out of the same pentatonic ruts we tend to find ourselves in!
Particularly if you are interested in Fusion, we will cover how to use modes and arpeggios in a musical and interesting way to broaden your musical vocabulary.
Other Services, Areas of Knowledge & Musicianship
As well as guitar lessons in Chiswick I teach composition and approaches to song writing. Being a composer and working with original artists on their own material, I have over 8 years worth of experience in song writing and approaches to composing original music.
Guitar Lesson Prices
- £30 Per Hour
- £20 Per Half-Hour
Special Offers
First Lesson is Half price at just £15 for one hour! Usual fee applies there after.
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