Guitar X

Sunday August 24th sees the first performance at Le Quecumbar in Battersea for the newly formed John Wheatcroft Acoustic Quintet. John has been teaching at Guitar-X since it was set up in 2003 and his incredible versatility as a player has been well known throughout the guitar world for years.

On August 24th he launches his new project inspired directly by the style he loves the most,

At the end of April ‘The Teak Project’ visited Guitar-X for a master class like no other. 

The Teak Project is a trio featuring Justin Quinn on guitar, Jonathan Mayer on sitar and Neil Craig on tabla. Their style of indo jazz can be related to the indo jazz band Shakti who formed in the 70s. Their leading member was English guitarist

Graduation Live is always the most highly anticipated night of the year for us, and on Sun 22nd June 2008, the 1200 strong audience at the Shepherds Bush Empire were privileged with some of the best graduating performances ever. The night was a true testament to the schools’ 25 years of success.

Every year our sponsors 'Marshall' give a scholarship to one lucky student. This years winner Declan Gaughan, is from Ireland and will be updating you with his diary every month. Here is his first entry from Februaury 2008.

We are nowin the 4th week of the 2nd term. The first term flew by and I really enjoyedit. My knowledge of music theory, the Fretboard and scaleshas greatly improved and I feel confident playing in our LPW's (Live PerformanceWorkshop) and RSS (Rhythm Section Skills) classes.

Hi, my name is Les Davidson and over the next few months I’ll be giving you a series of Guitar lessons from the essential basics to the more advanced.

These have been filmed exclusively for you at GuitarX in London. I hope to remove some of the mystery from this thing called music and get you feeling comfortable all over the neck of the Guitar.

This first lesson is using the CAGED system for chords.

The what!!!

Sunday the 16th December saw the students of April Graduate at Lock 17, Camden. It was a full house as students from the 1 Year Diploma course performed for family and friends. All in all around 450 people rammed into the venue, making for a very exciting night. Our fantastic endorsees as ever gave generously to those students who had stood out and worked hard. Every year these guys never cease to amaze us with their generosity. Prizes were as follows;

This year Tech Music Schools celebrates 25 years of training musicians. The 25th anniversary marks a huge achievement for us. The schools now comprise of Drumtech, Vocaltech, Guitar-X and most recently Keyboardtech, and have come a long way since 1983, when founder and director, Francis Seriau, began one-on-one Tuition from the front room of his house!

 Hi, it’s John Wheatcroft here and welcome to the second in a series of video lessons filmed exclusively for Alloutguitar here at Guitar X in London. Over the forthcoming months I’ll be showing you a range of techniques and concepts that I employ as part of my personal take on guitar playing. I’ll break each down and show you the component parts. Then I’ll give you some guidance on how to develop each approach, whether it by physical, conceptual or a combination of both and show you how you can then begin to integrate them into your own personal guitar style.

Hi, it’s John Wheatcroft here and welcome to a series of video lessons filmed exclusively for Alloutguitar here at Guitar X in London. Over the forthcoming months I’ll be showing you a range of techniques and concepts that I employ as part of my personal take on guitar playing. I’ll break each down and show you the component parts. Then I’ll give you some guidance on how to develop each approach, whether it by physical, conceptual or a combination of both and show you how you can then begin to integrate them into your own personal guitar style.