Guitar Lessons For

Beginners

Guitar Lessons For Beginners

Guitar Lessons for beginners generally start on the guitar from the ages of 5 years to 6 years. Teaching kids before this can be difficult as they tend not to have the physical strength or dexterity. Understanding how beginners learn is key to teaching. You first need to build confidence, the elements of the instrument and what’s on the page. Once you have these it all comes together very quickly. This normally happens with the first or second lesson if done right.

Programs

For early beginner kids, we follow the AMEB style of teaching. This teaches kids how to read music and play melodies they recognise and understand. Being so young they take to it quickly and the skill of reading music underpins their entire future musical journey.

Personal Lessons

All of our lessons are one on one. The best way to learn an instrument is to have a teacher and mentor with excellent communication skill, sit and guide you through your learning. We can make sure there are no gaps in your learning and take the time and focus to make sure every key step is completely understood before moving on.

Guitar Lessons Near Me?

Elite Music is at 1/13 Bonnal Rd in Erina NSW Australia 2250. We have a beautiful space filled with passionate teachers and students, working hard to master their chosen musical discipline. Our focus is to give our beginner students the best chance to succeed in a fun and inspiring atmosphere.

Classes For All Musical Levels

Your choice of school is important. The most important things to look for when looking to study are focused and dedicated teachers. Knowing your teacher is here with you from start to finish is important to successful development. We have an incredibly loyal team of teachers here at Elite Music. With many years of dedicated service to the up and coming musicians of the Central Coast.

Whether you are looking to learn for beginners or an advanced player you can find what you need here. Learn everything from guitar chord workings to scales, songs and exercises. Australian music examinations board, (music examinations board ameb) and ameb exam preparation. These are not madatory but an option for those wanting to get accreditation in the music industry.

 

Testimonials

Some amazing stories from our students

“I just want to say that you’ve been such an amazing and dedicated teacher.  In only 3 classes I’ve learnt so much, it’s all so interesting!I  ’ll be telling the people I know how good a teacher you are, and how amazing that space is.

Thank you so much, I’m very grateful for your time and patience with me.”

Camilla

 “Thank you so much for all your time and patience, you gave me more than just lessons, you also gave me valuable life lessons. I am really thankful for everything you have done.”

Ivan

Just wanted to thank you all for another wonderful year, I know Sybella has learn ‘t  a lot. We really enjoyed last night’s concert, it was wonderful to see all the students doing so well.

Jenny

“It was AMAZING!!! …Lots of wet eyes and tears of happiness. I got through it perfectly and will tell you more on Wednesday. Thank you so much for all the support and guidance AND teaching me… there is absolutely no way I could have done it without you!!!

Terri xxx

It was such a pleasure to receive your report which made it very clear in a real sense that there have been significant gains. You have a rare balance of tapping into your students interests and building up their confidence, with a deep knowledge of your subject field.  Add to that your passion and generous spirit and it is clear you will be making a great many lives much fuller.
Many thanks for everything

Barry

“The concert was wonderful, an absolute credit to all your efforts and your team which just reinforced what a great choice we made sending Soph to you and your school.”

Sophia, Larissa and Greg

Personal Training

Personal one on one lessons are so important that we completely built our entire structure around it. Whilst we have guitar ensembles for our beginners as well, we only teach one on one lessons. They allow us to give the focus and personal training a beginner needs. All our lessons for beginner guitar students are broken into weekly one on one lessons. We start from the very basics understanding the music on the page and how to read it. You will then progress through to playing more and more advanced pieces of music and songs. 

The reason we start with the AMEB method is it allows beginners to be able to play songs within one or two lessons. As opposed to the Chord or TAB method that can have beginners learning for weeks or months before they can play something completely through. And even this is simply strumming chords that could be one of a hundred songs. Beginners need quick results and understanding music is incredibly rewarding. 

We find our young kids starting this way keep playing for years and our beginner adults are so relieved they can play something so quickly that they practice all the time and progress so quickly.

It doesn’t matter if you are looking for guitar lessons for beginners or if you are looking for guitar lessons for advanced professionals. Finding teachers with flexible teaching methods that can also cater for visual, audible and written learners is so important. Find your teacher that will take the time and have the patients to understand how you learn best will, therefore, take the time to teach you how to learn your own way. 

All Programs

Kids Lessons

Guitar Lessons for beginners and Kids guitar lessons should be approached differently to guitar lessons for adults. There is a great opportunity to teach them how to read music. A young mind learns fast and taking the time to teach them single note pieces from a musical score gives them confidence and skills that chord playing doesn't. Once they get these skills down we move them onto intermediate lessons and contemporary songs. The amazing thing is they take these reading skills with them. They find it so rewarding being able to come out of each lesson playing a new song they recognise and know rather than just strumming away at chords. Reading musical notes is like reading words in a book. Its a skill that lasts for ever.

We need to build the passion and confidence first, whilst building solid, transferable musical concepts. With kids, we build a real musical education, a true solid groundwork that impacts all areas of their cognitive, fine motor and social learning future. The benefits a young child gets from learning the language of music is like learning a second or third spoken language. Its so rewarding as a teacher to see a young child read and successfully read and play a piece of music they have never seen or heard before.

Intermediate Lessons

When most intermediate guitar players first come to us they don't know how to read music. They are missing so many simple, yet important pieces of the puzzle. Often they think it's hard and beyond them, which is simply not true. So many players can shred up and down the neck and have great physical skills but don't understand how chords are made, or what scales and modes are. So much of what they have learnt is rote learnt. Built up from patterns and shapes and not actually gaining a full understanding of what they are doing. 

Often they think that playing guitar professionally is about being fast, or having great gear, but in reality, when they get their first session gig and the producer hands them the music and counts them in, they simply don't have the education to do the work.

Our aim is to create amazing musicians who understand and have complete control over what they play, not just play fast and messy. Learn how to understand songwriting and soloing. Understand how to actually play the guitar, not just memorising shapes and patterns. Get the right training first time so you don't waste years just learning AC/DC cover songs on electric guitar.

Advanced Players

All of our teachers at Elite Music are incredibly advanced players, highly trained and educated musicians. At Elite Music we purposely have extremely high standards for our teachers, therefore ensuring they have the skills and experience to mentor advanced players and hone their skills. We focus on extreme detail within their playing, running difficult and challenging exercises, thereby forcing them to radically improve their technique. There is so much value that comes from looking at new ways to choose notes and get them to question better ways to approach note choice and runs.

We love to take advanced, good players and make them great players. Solid technical knowledge, amazing dexterity, pulling techniques from related styles and blend technical approaches from a variety of styles.

Chords in the key of A

Key of A

Chords in the key of A# / Bb

Key of A# / Bb

Chords in the key of B

Key of B

Chords in the key of C

Key of C

Chords in the key of Db / C#

Key of Db / C#

Chords in the key of D

Key of D

Chords in the key of Eb / D#

Key of Eb / D#

Chords in the key of E

Key of E

Chords in the key of F

Key of F

Chords in the key of F# / Gb

Key of F# / Gb

Chords in the key of G

Key of G

Chords in the key of G# / Ab

Key of G# / Ab

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Saturday: Closed

Sunday: Closed

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