Rob at the Homestead

My residency at the Homestead Restaurant in Main St Samford continues on Friday nights in June, with performances on Friday 10th and 17th of June. So come along and enjoy a great night of guitar jazz in front of the log fire. My set includes favourites from Col Porter spiced with some Latin and Balkan flavours, and grooves from my Virtual Guitar Orchestra! I play from 6:30 until 10ish! Phone Steve at the restaurant for bookings or more information, on 3289 1485.

G Minor Groove Practice Track

Hi,

Here is a practice track you can use for practicing bass lines or lead breaks using the G minor pentatonic scale. The rhythm guitar plays two basic rhythms using a Gm7 chord, and then a G minor chord.

GMinorGroove

Enjoy!

Rob

Rob’s Guitar Method Book One Now Available

Rob’s Guitar Method Book One is now available! It is an affordable method, with a recommended retail price of $14.95, but which I make available to students of the Guitar School for $10. This is significantly cheaper than many commercial learn to play guitar books on the market. The book is aimed at beginning players of all ages, and represents a structured approach to developing  music reading skills, chord and strumming basics, and material suitable for improvisation.

Students who successfully work through the method will gain proficiency in reading notes from the C major scale on the three treble strings in the first (open) position. Sharps are also introduced. This is supplemented by learning to recognize and play bass notes to go with common chords, on the 6th string (E,F,G), 5th string (A and C) and the 4th string (D).  A number of progressively more demanding duets are included which help build skills in ensemble playing, and are useful in group classes or beginning ensembles. There are also pieces which are ideal for beginning explorations in improvisation.

A range of  the most common chords and simple strumming styles are also developed, beginning with one finger chords, progressing to two finger chords, and developing to three and four finger chords. Finally, chords made with a half barre (Gm, A6) are introduced.

The method is not meant to be a self instruction manual, and contains no lengthy verbage which your teacher is going to tell you anyway, or more importantly show you. It is just the music, and the fingering diagrams you need to develop your playing in a structured way, with the aid of a teacher. 

Email rob on rob@robsguitarschool.com with your purchase enquiries!

Rob at the Homestead in May

My residency at the Homestead Restaurant in Main St Samford continues on Friday nights in May, with performances on Friday 20th and 27th of May. So come along and enjoy a great night of guitar jazz in front of the log fire. My set includes favourites from Col Porter spiced with some Latin and Balkan flavours, and grooves from my Virtual Guitar Orchestra! I play from 6:30 until 10ish! Phone Steve at the restaurant for bookings or more information, on 3289 1485.