This is a short video highlighting some of the different styles of guitar I enjoy playing. As well as Classical Guitar I have spent many years playing and teaching many styles of electric and acoustic guitar from Jazz and Blues though to progressive rock and metal. If you'd like some lessons it is always a good idea to know what style of guitar you prefer to play and listen to, so that your lessons can be tailored to what you want to play.

I know it's easier for students to learn a piece of music when they can hear how it sounds first. So this is how my Grade 3 arrangement sounds, of the new James Bond theme song by Billie Eilish. I decided to write these arrangements after a couple of my students asked me if we might learn some Billie Eilish music in their lessons. Well 2 days later storm Dennis arrived so I stayed in and had a listen the new Billie Eilish song. It seemed like a good place to start - quite slow and melancholy so hopefully not too difficult for anyone with some classical guitar training to learn. This is the Grade 3 version I am playing, I also wrote out a simpler Grade 1 arrangement which I''ll record when I can.

I designed this particular exercise to focus on pull-off from 4th finger to 3rd and 3rd to 2nd, because this is a weak area for most players. But this is a great coordination workout for all fingers and builds upstroke/down-stroke independence. Metronome is at 132 bpm. As usual I run the exercise in 8th notes, 8th note triplets and 16th notes. The full TAB score is on my Free TABS page here.

One of 6 Slick Licks I have transcribed from Joe Bonamassa's fantastic cover (with Jimmy Barnes) of Lazy by Deep Purple. There are great licks to help master a variety of rock techniques but the timing of each lick in context, and the mixture of rhythm divisions really makes these licks sound good.

By defining and changing both left and right hand techniques to practise this coordination exercise I can improve faster than if I play it the same way over and over. So, in this eg: 1. First Alternate Pick every note. 2 Play with Legato.

An easy speed coordination (right/left hand) exercise riff drilled with 16th into 8th triplets. This is a really great warm up to use before playing anything more serious. The beauty of this exercise is that you have to play the riff starting on a down-stroke and then an upstroke - if you've never tried challenging yourself to do that , give it a go - it isn't as easy as you might think.

This great bebop jazz phrase from Groovin High (Dizzy Gillespie) is one of the most common jazz phrases you’ll hear. A must learn for any budding Jazz Guitarist. Original key is Eb - this phrase played over Am - D7 and resolving to Eb

Chord Triads and Dyads (double stops) in your blues solos is a great way to learn how to improvise over chord changes. In this eg. I think about 3 triads and a Dyad (D7) that give me 3rd and b7th intervals

If you stick to the same metronome tempo you can gain speed & accuracy for rock guitar with simple Rhythmic Divisions. I'm playing this rock phrase at 144 bpm moving through 8th notes, 8th note triplets and 16th notes.

A snippet from a short Sunday morning jam to the classic blues track 'Bad to the Bone' by George Thorogood. The original was played using a Bottleneck slide so my version here isn't totally accurate, just my take on it with a few of my own improvised licks on the side. The backing track I used is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej9jSDe-AbI