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If you're looking to:
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improve your guitar
skills
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build up your confidence
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put in some
serious playing time with other guitarists
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expand your repertoire
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pick up some
really useful theory and how to make
practical use of it
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and have a thoroughly
great time in the process
then our weekend teaching
retreats are for you.
These are group
tuition courses for all abiity levels from raw
to relative
beginners, average to intermediate and
advanced to semi-pros covering Blues to
Jazz, Rock to Folk, Country to Rhythm, Gypsy
to Maintenancem ... etc....... Check
out our 2016 timetable of course on the DATES
page.
We've been delivering
these courses since 1994 with our own unique
appraoch and format. Our ethos is
LEARN, PLAY and have FUN!
Course Overviews - if something
catches your eye then email us and we'll send you
one or more overviews for you to scan
through and then follow up with a quick chat;
we're obsessive about making sure a course 'fits''.
We use great
venues in
Berkshire, Wiltshire, North Somerset and Cumbria, and
we've even ventured to Stirlingshire
on occasion. We employ
top professional tutors who are both
teachers and gigging musicians.
The courses are, first
and foremost, group teaching weekends but we
manage to squeeze in ample jamming sessions
(often into the early hours!) and allow
individuals some personal space for private
practice and one-on-one tuition as well as
opportunities for solo performances.
Perhaps you're an
accomplished band player who just wants expand
your knowledge, maybe you've played for a while but mostly at home
and lack confidence to jam with others or maybe
you're just someone who's stuck in a rut - same
songs, same mistakes, same sounds!
Our
courses are loosely graded but our foundation
courses (Beginners, Strugglers and Improvers)
are there to get the basics sorted before
focusing on specific styles such as Blues or
Rock. Strugglers, in particular, is a safe and sensible starting point in our raft of course
options.
The guitar is a wonderfully versatile and
expressive instrument - it can be frustrating to
'master' but it becomes a life-long friend who
you gradually get to know and understand over
the years.
The success of our courses
can be measured in many different ways: enjoying
a good time with others, how much
knowledge/technique is absorbed and how inspired
people are when they leave to continue learning
(and practising properly). A statistical measure
is the number of students who come back again and again for
refreshers and brand new courses - they do, in
their droves! Check out our students’
testimonials.
A Weekend is hard work but made easier
by the structured, relaxed and supportive
way we run it. Our prices are all-inclusive with options
covering fully residential to
non-residential to sharing with a
partner/spouse.
If you’re
asking yourself if you’re good enough or
confident enough - don’t worry!
Our tutors are
incredibly experienced at pushing everyone,
regardless of ability, without
making them feel uncomfortable.
Bass
guitarists are especially welcome on most of our
courses.
Vouchers
are ideal gifts for others as
well as for anyone who wants to go on a course
but isn’t sure which one to choose. They allow
time to talk
through the various courses and decide
on the most suitable option.
If you’re
interested then there are many ways to find out
more about what Guitar Weekends can offer:
 Subscribe
to our Newsletter (information on new courses
and up-to-date offers. These also give you a
really good feel for what we're like)
Contact
us
And
if you have already been on one of our courses
then follow
us on our Facebook Members-Only Group.
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