Whether you’ve just picked up a guitar, or have been playing for years, our acoustic and electric guitar lessons will have you improving your technique in no time.
Guitar lessons take place every week at HCM Ware and HCM Letchworth, suitable for students aged 7 and over, right up to adults. Prices range from £13 to £39 dependent on private or group led classes.
For more information about taking guitar lessons at HCM Music Academy, get in touch today.
If you’ve always wanted to learn to play the guitar, but weren’t sure where to start, then HCM’s guitar lessons could be just what you’re after.
Lessons take place every week at HCM, suitable for students aged 7 and over, right up to adults. They last either 30, 45 or 60 minutes (it’s up to you), they can be group or one-on-one tuition, and you can choose between the electric and acoustic guitar. Even if you’re a seasoned guitarist, our lessons are a great way to improve your technique and develop new skills.
HCM guitar lessons cover a full range of styles and genres – from classical, folk and pop pieces for acoustic guitarists, to rock, indie and heavy metal for those learning the electric guitar. The content and format of the lessons will vary depending on your level, the size of your class and the goals of you and your fellow classmates.
Here’s just a small selection of the techniques you’ll learn in HCM’s electric or acoustic guitar lessons:
On top of guitar lessons, all our HCM guitarists are encouraged to take part in our end of term gigs and showcases. This helps students gain experience in playing live and in front of an audience, as well as giving useful experience and a new found confidence.
At HCM, we believe it can be beneficial for student guitarists to study for and sit graded instrument exams because it allows you to gauge your improvement and development over time. Our lessons all follow the RSL graded syllabus for electric and acoustic guitar from Debut to Grade 8. For teenage students, these graded syllabus lessons can complement other activities, such as GCSE Music or Duke of Edinburgh Award schemes.
To find out more about guitar at HCM Music Academy you can either complete our enquiry form, call us directly on 01920 460646 or by email learn@h-c-m.co.uk
Meet some of our tutors at HCM
As well as being experts in education, our teachers play an active and successful role as professionals in today’s music business.
Andy Horrigan is a guitar tutor who, throughout his years of playing has been in many bands and has performed at various venues in and around London and the southeast.
Tom prides himself in inspiring his students to develop their own passion for learning to play their instrument, he does this by initially identifying the students favourite Artists and showing them exactly how their idols started off in the music industry.
Shane has been playing Guitar for the last 24 years. He was brought up on Rock and Roll / country music as a Child and by the age of 10 years old, he started playing lead guitar for his dads band.
Marie Lee is dedicated to her teaching and teaches both group and one to one lessons with an aim to make lessons fun, educational and engaging, across all genres.
Roisin Quinn is a freelance vocalist, songwriter, arranger, educator and musical director. She holds an undergraduate music degree, a PGCE focusing on 16+ education, and a master’s degree in Songwriting.
Marc has 25 years’ experience as a gigging musician, performing with artists such as Kim Wilde and Ben Westbeech (Brownswood Recordings), as well as working in high end function bands as a musical director, Marc has a broad range of experience as a live player.
Peter Hedley is an accomplished professional drummer and tutor who has worked with a broad array of artists across many genres.
Tom Brown is a score composer, producer, musician and educator based in Hertfordshire and London. He has a Higher Diploma and BMus in Popular Music Performance, specialising in the guitar, as well as a Distinction-level Master’s degree in Composing for Film and Television.
Dave Evans is a diverse musician and versatile electric bassist, double bassist, composer and arranger whose skillset also includes strong vocals and guitar.
Jo Harris is a Hertfordshire-based singer/songwriter who teaches vocals and piano lessons at HCM, she also previously worked with Rock Choir as a leader for the Hoddesdon, Enfield and Bishops Stortford Areas, and continues to work with independent choirs in the area.
Chris Jenks started learning the piano and violin when he was 5. He carried on studying for many years, graduating from conservatoire in 2001.
Alex Forryan started playing drums at the age of 5. Early in Alex’s playing career he played with both County and National Youth Jazz Orchestras and participated in a number of tours of the UK and Europe.
Joe Hannis is a guitar tutor who gained a degree in Professional Musicianship from The Bristol Institute of Modern Music, where he was selected to be a session guitarist for the institute in their house band, starting his playing career.
Stacy has been playing the drums for almost 20 years and in that time has studied with top UK drummers Steve White, Pete Riley and Darby Todd.
As a professional musician Zane has performed and toured all over the world in a range of musical settings from international tours with musical theatre stars to small select private functions, and has been involved in many recording sessions in all the major studios in London.
Read some of our success stories
Over the years, so many of our past students have either gone on to further studies in music, to a first-rate music business career… or both.
Ajit Gill is now in jazz-funk band Vertaal and studying a music degree at ICMP Music College in London.
Lizzie Reynolds is now at ICMP Music College studying a music degree and gigging at London’s Hard Rock Cafe and Winter Wonderland.
Mica Douglas is now a rapper and producer studying Events Management at university.
Cara Beard is now a singer-songwriter with Eurovision experience and a Warner Music record deal.