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If you didn’t read my last blog my name is James Lane and I’m the proud winner of a Yamaha Guitar Scholarship at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. I’m going to share what I’ve been doing at the Institute and hopefully pass on a bit of information about playing and learning.

I’m currently on half term of Term two now, and it has flown by so fast. I’ll start by telling you a little about a couple of the lessons I’ve had this term.

At the end of April ‘The Teak Project’ visited Guitar-X for a master class like no other. 

The Teak Project is a trio featuring Justin Quinn on guitar, Jonathan Mayer on sitar and Neil Craig on tabla. Their style of indo jazz can be related to the indo jazz band Shakti who formed in the 70s. Their leading member was English guitarist

Hi, my name is James Lane and I was the lucky winner of the Yamaha Guitar scholarship on the Institute’s Higher Diploma course. This is my first blog entry (so bear with me!) but my aim is to share some of my thoughts on playing and learning, give you some ideas about what’s going on here, and share some of my personal highlights from the first six weeks. So, here goes…

Ampeg Shrinks The SVT

New SVT Micro Head and SVT-210AV enclosure

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!

Tolis Zavaliaris was born in Orestiada a small town in northern Greece. In 2001 he relocated from Greece to London where he studied the three year degree program at the London Guitar Institute. After his graduation he was invited to join the Institute as tutor and lecturer.

Rocksteady - Music Education as it's supposed to be!

Rocksteady is a music academy formed by two professional musicians with the aim of providing quality, yet affordable music education for contemporary musicians, both privately and as a programme in schools across the UK. We are also currently operating a "Rock school" from Alton Community Centre in Hampshire on week nights. Here we bring you the first in a series of newsletters to keep you up to date with what's going down!

Russell Lissack of Bloc Party is one of the best young guitarists in the country. He is innovative and very creative with his ever-growing effects board. You only need to hear the crazy drooping sounds on 'Like Eating Glass' (from first album 'Silent Alarm') or the intro to 'Hunting for Witches' or the solo to 'The Prayer' (both from their follow-up album 'A Weekend in the City') for Russell to instantly stand out a mile.