YGA BLOG

23 December 2022

Now, you hear from me a lot these days! Blog posts, YouTube vids, courses, emails… You name it; I'm talking a lot! However, you don't hear as much from our core team in the office, and these guys are doing most of the hard work! My amazing team of Ollie, Cam and Jonty are as much a part of our progress as anyone else, so I wanted to give them a chance to review their year and tell us a bit about their plans for the coming year.

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15 December 2022

In today's lesson, Franco is giving a bit of a masterclass on how to get your chord changes to sound a bit more professional. Today we're talking about making more use of your strumming hand, and adding in ghost notes, sometimes known as "Chka Chkas"!

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13 December 2022

Your Guitar Academy is now offering guitar lessons in Preston Park Brighton. Our guitar tutor in that area, Simone, is committed, reliable, honest and, most importantly, loves to bring a sense of fun and enjoyment to the focused learning of music.

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13 December 2022

This year I want to help students that are just, quite simply, feeling stuck with their playing. I know that feeling all too well, and I know exactly how to help! t's a pretty funny old cycle of frustration, and even with the best will in the world, it's hard to push through that by yourself. It's at this point where we all need a little help.

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8 December 2022

Franco is in the hot seat today with a really cool little lesson talking about how to create a very "dark" chord progression. If you like to get a little creative with your guitar, or you like to write chord progressions and your own songs, then this little tip will be great for you.

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23 November 2022

Your Guitar Academy is now offering guitar lessons Exeter with our awesome tutor Tristan. Our tutors have years of teaching experience and are extremely motivated and talented tutors ready to teach you guitar!

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18 November 2022

Firstly, this was fun! When I decided I was going to do a 12 bar blues with 5 different players, it was these 5 players that instantly came to mind. They are unique, they have clear styles, and in theory it should be relatively simple to put a track together as if they were all taking turns jamming over it. So, what do you think? Did I do a reasonable job?

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15 November 2022

So yeah… We did it. Easy peasy! Barely took any work. No problem. Ha! No not really! It took a lot of work, a lot of hard work, but we finally hit 100,000 subscribers on YouTube!

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28 October 2022

In today's lesson we have three tracks that are perfect for improver players who are looking to enter the world of fingerstyle guitar (not suitable for complete beginners!).

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21 October 2022

Thomas is back in the teaching chair to cover an extremely important topic for any lead guitar player. In fact, this is a topic myself and Thomas chat about all the time. No matter the lead guitar player we are listening to, we're always looking out for one extremely important element… feel.

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