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Guitar X - 25 Years of training musicians

This year Tech Music Schools celebrates 25 years of training musicians. The 25th anniversary marks a huge achievement for us. The schools now comprise of Drumtech, Vocaltech, Guitar-X and most recently Keyboardtech, and have come a long way since 1983, when founder and director, Francis Seriau, began one-on-one Tuition from the front room of his house!

Francis Seriau

Graduation at Lock 17

Sunday the 16th December saw the students of April Graduate at Lock 17, Camden. It was a full house as students from the 1 Year Diploma course performed for family and friends. All in all around 450 people rammed into the venue, making for a very exciting night. Our fantastic endorsees as ever gave generously to those students who had stood out and worked hard. Every year these guys never cease to amaze us with their generosity. Prizes were as follows;

Graduation Live 2008 @ Shepherds Bush Empire

This year sees Tech Music Schools into it's 25th year. On June 22nd 2008 Shepherds Bush Empire will be host to a night of fun filled entertainment.

For just £5 per ticket you can easily join us there and see many of our top performers on the big stage. Every year we come to this venue and pack out the house.

There will be several hours of live performances from current students and special guests.

For tickets call (+ 44) 020 8749 3131

Be great to see you there...

Lessons

The CAGED System with Les Davidson

Hi, my name is Les Davidson and over the next few months I’ll be giving you a series of Guitar lessons from the essential basics to the more advanced.

These have been filmed exclusively for you at GuitarX in London. I hope to remove some of the mystery from this thing called music and get you feeling comfortable all over the neck of the Guitar.

This first lesson is using the CAGED system for chords.

The what!!!

Pentatonic Variations with John Wheatcroft

John Wheatcroft - Guitar X

 Hi, it’s John Wheatcroft here and welcome to the second in a series of video lessons filmed exclusively for Alloutguitar here at Guitar X in London. Over the forthcoming months I’ll be showing you a range of techniques and concepts that I employ as part of my personal take on guitar playing. I’ll break each down and show you the component parts. Then I’ll give you some guidance on how to develop each approach, whether it by physical, conceptual or a combination of both and show you how you can then begin to integrate them into your own personal guitar style.

Hybrid Picking with John Wheatcroft

John Wheatcroft - Guitar X

Hi, it’s John Wheatcroft here and welcome to a series of video lessons filmed exclusively for Alloutguitar here at Guitar X in London. Over the forthcoming months I’ll be showing you a range of techniques and concepts that I employ as part of my personal take on guitar playing. I’ll break each down and show you the component parts. Then I’ll give you some guidance on how to develop each approach, whether it by physical, conceptual or a combination of both and show you how you can then begin to integrate them into your own personal guitar style.

Features

Declan Gaughan Diary Feb 2008

Every year our sponsors 'Marshall' give a scholarship to one lucky student. This years winner Declan Gaughan, is from Ireland and will be updating you with his diary every month. Here is his first entry from Februaury 2008.

We are nowin the 4th week of the 2nd term. The first term flew by and I really enjoyedit. My knowledge of music theory, the Fretboard and scaleshas greatly improved and I feel confident playing in our LPW's (Live PerformanceWorkshop) and RSS (Rhythm Section Skills) classes.