Royston & County Rock School;
Royston's Unique Rock Guitar Teacher: 'Del'. 9 years experience serving North Herts & South Cambs.
- Learn from the man with the guitars, not a DVD:
- Avoid practicing bad techniques & mistakes the book or internet video can't spot you starting...?
- Beginners will be trained from the ground up using my rare 'Stagewise' approach...?
- Mid-level guitarists will be advanced with fret-board fluency and 'musical ear' skills...?
- School music students will be shown the tricks of the trade that don't come with GCSEs...?
- Guitars get mixed with realistic drum patterns through a high quality stereo sound system, plus digital effects and overdrive...?
What's it all about?
Beginners to advanced, I will help you build up the musical fluency where you take control of your guitar: Learn your favorite music, even combine them with your own ideas and make music of your own ready for performance to a live audience; with your future bands, as a soloist, or to friends and family at parties. My legacy of guitarists have made quite a mark on the Royston music scene in bands and as soloists.
During one-to-one Electric, Acoustic & Bass guitar lessons at my home music studio you will learn to work your guitar with other instruments using all the modern tools including realistic drum patterns, and play music using your ears with tablature to take away, not learning from a book.
Unique & Intuitive lessons using tools⁄technologies such us;
• With Sound Forge I can pick small portions of a song and 'loop' it, letting us listen & play along to a specific piece of guitar play over and over. And I can slow the song down without dropping the notes too.
• Fruity Loops Studio is an advanced sample sequencer (drum machine) and I have hundreds of real drum samples so we will be using genuine drum kit sounds to practice with, not a ticking metronome or an old 808™
• Line 6 & Digitech 'Amp Modelling' units for great guitar sounds with effects, plug them into the Behringer mixer along with the music from the PC and it all makes for a tight studio mix as it comes out in stereo!
• Cubase SX: Every now and then we need to record what you are playing complete with Fruity drum section & my bass, so you can put down the guitar, look away from your fingers, listen back and analyse your sound. It's like the first time you heard your voice on tape "I sound like that!?".
• When I create my chord pictures and demonstrational graphics within the lessons I don't sketch it on paper with a pencil, I use the professional Adobe Photoshop.
