Guitar Lessons Blog

2018 marks the 3rd year that a Guitar Excellence instructor’s band has been awarded prizes at the annual SAMMA evening for their outstanding performance. Our teachers continue to prove that Guitar…

If you don’t know what percussive guitar playing is or how it works, then you NEED to watch these amazing videos! We’ve compiled a list of our top 5 favourite…

The ‘Golden Age’ of guitar effects you say? Sounds fantastic! Anything I should know about, any words of caution? Well, yes, actually. Digital or all analogue? Don’t fall for the…

It could be said that songs consist of only three things and they are namely melody, lyric and chords. Let’s have a look at how to focus on the use…

In this Funk guitar lesson, we’re going to work on playing chords and adding muted strumming in-between. This exercise is designed to help you work on getting your muted notes…

This time we look at the concept of ‘true bypass’. Do you have it? Do you need it? Will it make you sound better, and therefore play better? As I’ve…

I’ve always been interested in the idea of globalization and how the whole world is connected. We are more exposed to each other than ever before in the entire history.…

I remember my first guitar – the sheer excitement of just wanting to hit the strings and play a song and feel how it adjusts to my hand. Having your…

I’m not the first to say it: we are living in a ‘Golden Age’ of guitar effects. The boom in the guitar industry, perhaps coupled with the Internet and social…

It’s not always as easy as it should be to convince someone to listen to the great guitarists from decades past. While it’s easy to appreciate the talent of these…

We’ve put together a list of guitar gadgets that we find most useful. We think that every guitarist needs to either own one or at least try it out once…

Muscle Memory has been defined as the ability to reproduce a particular movement without conscious thought, acquired as a result of frequent repetition of that movement. In relation to guitar…