Guitar Tuition
1 to 1 Tuition
Ollie teaches privately online via zoom or from
his studio in London.
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Online Educational Content
Ollie has a YouTube channel where he releases
Video lessons on a wide spread of topics.
Accompanying PDFs are available here so click
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PDF lesson content.
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Check out Ollie’s Youtube Channel for lessons and video content.
PDF lessons to accompany the YouTube lesson series are available below.
Lesson Content
The PDF lessons feature both standard music notation and guitar tab as well as being accompanied by chord diagrams.
They can be read standalone or to accompany the youtube videos below.
The mini Ebooks are available through GumRoad.com and clicking “BUY PDF LESSON” will take you through to the Gumroad page and payment options.
7 Steps to better solos - Phrasing Tips
A crash course in solo phrasing.
Here, I take you through 7 key areas to work on to improve your solo phrasing and to help you play more cohesive and exciting solos.
- Includes example solos and phrasing examples with audio demos
- Free Backing Track and 30+MP3 demos of all examples.
Hybrid Pentatonics -Rethinking the Scale
Learn how to break away from tired and bored sounding pentatonic ideas by using the Hybrid Pentatonic concept.
Here, I take you through all you need to know about this approach to start playing a more modern and interesting pentatonic sound.
An Introduction to Quartal Harmony
Everything you need to know to get started with the concept of Quartal harmony.
This is a great way to start building more interesting modern modal chords and a really useful way to comp on static harmony.
Master the Inverted Pedal to link chords!
The Inverted Pedal is a really cool device for giving chord sequences common tones to really help link the harmony. It’s a trick used a lot on piano but often missed on guitar!
Here, I take you through the concept and some greats uses and applications.
Shell Chords, their uses and inversions
A complete introduction to a chord type many of us know, but have often not explored.
This is a great way to start building minimal chords that still perfectly fit the chord changes or a great basis for adding chord extensions.
1 to 1 Lessons
Ollie teaches private 1-to-1 guitar and music theory lessons online and in person from his home studio in North London.
He has over a decade of guitar tuition experience, teaching all ages and abilties and in a variety of styles and genres but specialising in Pop, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Neo-Soul and RnB whilst focusing in on a jazz theory approach to the insutrument.
– Learn all the basics of guitar
– Learn how to improvise
– Learn the essential theory behind the guitar
– Learn how to play new and advanced chords, arpeggios and scales, and learn to link these
– Develop your repertoire
-Understand and use Modes
-Gain a strong grounding in technique.
-Focus on tone and phrasing to let the guitar really sing.
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