Welcome to the Lessons Area
This area is dedicated to help you become a better musician, to further pursue and nurture your interest and passion for playing guitar, writing songs and developing your technical, theoretical and creative knowledge.
You will find plenty of free content below, including a brand new featured spotlight lesson on Chris Buck as well as archived material, including my songschemes series.
My teaching focuses on a bespoke mix of topics and is tailored precisely to your ability and requirements - learning songs, guitar techniques, songwriting, reading music, transcribing and applying music theory in practice.
Please contact me for further information on my availability for face-to-face and online lessons
Steve
Informative, structured and inspiring!
After many years away from the electric guitar Steve has helped me regain my inspiration for the instrument with lessons structured specifically towards my needs and aspirations. Highly recommended.
Gary (online student, Finland)
Featured You Tube Video
Featured Sound Slice Lesson
Goose (satellite) Guitar Solo Excerpt
This lesson focuses on the Goose track ‘Satellite’ featuring a short excerpt from Rick Mitarotonda’s solo, which is beautifully constructed, phrased and developed. The nature of the progression is such that you must ‘play the changes’ since the chord progression consistently evolves and moves ergonomically up firstly in tones, then semi-tones. Am7 > Bm7 > C#m7 > D7 > D#7 > E7.
Use the soundslice below to slow down, loop and repeat sections as you need.
In addition you can download a PDF of the TAB/ notation and a backing track to play along - both free from my store.
Also available with more viewing options at my Soundslice homepage.
Lesson Archives
Electric Lesson
Acoustic Lesson
Interested in Songwriting?
A songscheme is a method of expressing, in a visual form, song information; a memory map that offers a useful alternative view of any given song and useful for all those looking to expand their knowledge of chords, harmony, form and progression - the fundamental tools of any songwriter.