Guitar lessons Huddersfield

Adult Beginners Guitar Course Huddersfield Starting Tuesday 12th June 2012

Ricky — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:00:34 +0000

Adult Beginners Guitar Course Huddersfield

10 weeks of awesome and fun class tuition learning how to get to grips with the guitar for adults. Learn the foundations needed for a lifetime of guitar playing fun in relaxed surrounding with expert tuition.

“Have you always wanted to play guitar but thought it was too hard to learn?”

Let Ricky show you how to get strumming easily and in no time for enjoying a lifetime of music fun. Learn everything you need to know to play the songs you love.

The next adult beginners guitar course starts:
Tuesday 12th June 2012 – 7.30pm till 9.30pm

Price: £160 (That’s an awesome £8 per hour learning from one of the UK’s leading guitar educators).
Book your place now as places fill fast!
email info@rock-school.co.uk or call Kerry on 01484 846838

Dare to be awesome in 2012

Ricky — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:44:44 +0000

I was just posting about an awesome couple of guitar courses we’re running in January and i realised i haven’t used this blog enough last year. That got me thinking about all the half hearted resolutions we make at the beginning of a new year, and how they slip into the lost land of “good intentions”.

Personally I’m on a mission to lose weight in 2012 so i can enjoy surfing in Cornwall this summer without feeling like an orca in my wetsuit! I’ve already lost 2 stone in 2011, which I’m very pleased about. When i think about it, it was because i made a DECISION to lose weight. In fact I’m still decided on losing more weight so i can feel happier and healthier in myself, (you have to look after yourself more when you hit 40!).

This brings me to the concept of intentions. An intention in my mind is a desire without the decision to take the action to make it happen.
For instance: Did you intend to learn guitar last year, but didn’t? Is it because you hadn’t decided you were going to learn the guitar. They sound similar but they are a completely different perspective to each other.

If you DECIDE to do something will nothing get in your way?
If you intend to do something will you get it done?

Intentions are wishy washy. Are you resolute in your decision to learn guitar/quit smoking/eat healthier/get more exercise or do you intend to maybe think about it?

This brings me to the subject of awesomeness!

If you HAVE decided to do something new for 2012, what if you pushed it a little further than you dared? I mean REALLY decide to do it, not just here and there, but GO FOR IT in a big way!
What could you achieve?
How would that make you feel about yourself?
How would others perceive you?

Life is short. You are here for a finite number of days. Dare yourself to be AWESOME! We can help

Beginners Guitar Class Huddersfield

Ricky — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:11:12 +0000

Have you got a new guitar for Christmas?

Just a quick post to tell you if you got a new guitar for Christmas and want to learn how to play it, we have our awesome Adult and Kids Beginners guitar classes starting here at Ricky’s school of rock, Linthwaite, Huddersfield this month, (January 2012).

Each guitar class runs for 10 weeks:
Adults: 2 hours on Tuesdays 7.30 – 9.30 pm
Kids: 2 hours on Saturdays 10.00 – 12.00 noon

The price for the course is £160 which works out at an amazing £8 per hour of top class fun tuition aimed at getting you playing the songs you love. Flexible payment methods are available, so you can pay in 1, 2 or 3 installments via cash/card, making it easier for you. Please book NOW to reserve your place as these courses are very popular.

Stop posing in the mirror and learn to play your guitar and get a bunch of songs under your belt in time for the BBQ this summer!

Contact Kerry or call 01484 846838 to register/book your place and get rockin in 2012!

Guitar Lessons in Huddersfield

Ricky — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:55:43 +0000

Guitar lessons in Huddersfield

Hi I’m Ricky
I own, run and teach guitar lessons and guitar classes in our music school ‘Ricky’s school of rock’, in Linthwaite, Huddersfield. We don’t only just do guitar stuff! We also do drum lessons, bass lessons, singing lessons and awesome rock band sessions.

During my musical career I’ve been in tons of bands (original and covers). I’ve been a cabaret artist gigging the sadly impoverished clubland scene, I’ve been a band front-man singing for a 14 piece soul band, a guitar teacher at what was the Huddersfield Technical College, (Now the Kirklees College), a band agent with a roster of over 30 bands. I’ve been a sound engineer with residencies at venues all over Yorkshire. I’ve also been an events promoter and responsible for 8 venues based throughout Yorkshire. I’ve also managed a band…the one and only time, i will EVER do that! I used to run the Yorkshire Gig Guide. I’ve also toured the UK and Europe as a singer/guitarist. I’ve been a roadie for the 1970′s chart toppers “The Bachelors’. I’ve written articles and pieces on learning how to play guitar for published media.I’ve also worked in theatre composing music for shows performed all over the UK. I’ve even mimed keyboards on stage at one point! (I got £300 for an hours ‘work’ for that!)

However the main musical ‘Job’, I’ve had over the years is that of being a a guitar teacher. I’ve been teaching guitar for 20 years both privately, for rehabilitation institutions and in further education. I’ve learned a lot from teaching guitar, about myself and other people, and always consider myself to be a perpetual student of guitar. There’s always something new to learn, which i guess is why I’m still obsessed with the guitar 24 years later.

This is my personal site about my philosophy on teaching guitar and being a musician. Hopefully I’ll be able to find time to post interesting articles about how to approach playing guitar with not only an efficiency, practical, and business point of view, but from an aesthetic point of view too.

I’ll probably post some lessons on here too that hook up to YouTube with some downloadable PDFs to print off.

If you like to get all social:

I’m on twitter Follow @RickOfRock

Our facebook fan page for the school of rock.

Facebook Click here

I’ve put a link above to the school website, as that usually contains up to date information about guitar classes and other cool stuff we do, but just in case you missed it here’s another link to our website:)

Ricky’s school of rock

Oh and our physical address is below too!

Be awesome!
Ricky

“This guy knows his sh*t!” – Guthrie Govan