by Simon Cassidy | May 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
A really great night was had by all last night watching the Master of country blues guitar picking at a packed venue in the wilds of upper Teesdale. Albert Lee proved to anyone who didn’t know, that not only is he probably at the the very top of his guitar...
by Simon Cassidy | Mar 31, 2012 | EKO Guitars, Electric Guitars, Featured Student
Young Jamie says he mentioned Kashmir at his lesson last week but I can’t remember, and we certainly didn’t do any work on it then. That didn’t stop 10 year old Jamie looking it up on youtube during the week, figuring out (almost) how to tune to...
by Simon Cassidy | Mar 8, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured Student, Product Review
Ok, so we know that Jimi Hendrix had limited (if no) choice about using left handed guitars so he restrung a standard right handed strat so he could play left handed – with his left hand strumming and his right hand on the fret board. We also know that in his...
by Simon Cassidy | Feb 19, 2012 | Acoustic Guitars, Featured New Owner, Featured Student, Guitar Lessons, Music Theory
Earning a living as a guitar teacher is really one of the most satisfying things I have ever done. Buying, selling, fixing and talking about guitars, guitarists and guitar music to enthusiastic students is a pretty good place to be for me. But the variety of people I...
by Simon Cassidy | Feb 5, 2012 | Guitar Lessons, Product Review
An interesting couple of days…… Nick Poole came along for his lesson on Thursday and we were working on rhythm playing by playing along with drum tracks I have on my BOSS BR-1200 Digital Recording Studio. “But what about practice between...
