Guitar learning has never been interesting than it will this holiday with guitarconfidence.com. Christmas has come early! We want to share the joy that comes with the holiday season with you. Just this month only, we are giving discounts with over 50% off.

Apart from affordability, below are other reasons why you should learn the guitar with us this holiday.  

Experienced Instructors

Our able guitar teachers have a vast experience. They are professional guitar players who are ready to pass on the knowledge of playing the guitar!

Personalized Lessons

Do you have a busy schedule that makes you feel like you may have time to attend lessons? Relax! We can fix your schedule in our lessons to help you learn guitar despite your busy schedule. Our guitar instructors are ready to give you the best experience as you gain knowledge.

Crazy Offers

We are offering the cheapest guitar classes in town. In fact, we are giving a package worth $300 for half the price! Our offer has 3 one hour private Guitar Lessons. New students will get a free Guitar, Ukulele, Banjo or Mandolin method books valued at a retail price of $50. Where can you find such offers? Take advantage of our Special Black Friday deals that end on November 25.

In many cases, people give contradicting perceptions about learning guitar. Some say that it is difficult and mind cracking while others appreciate it as an easy thing. It is easy especially when you have interest and the ability to easily grasp new concepts. With the hacks listed below, be sure that you can become a perfect guitarist.

Plan to practice consistently

The ability to play the guitar faster and better does not come automatically. An effective plan must be in place to ensure consistent practice. Frequent practice is vital to improving guitar skills. It goes a long way to enabling one to become a faster and better player. The most ideal thing is practising the skills you learn in lessons as many times as possible. Eventually, you will gain speed and become a perfect player. Nevertheless, be keen to avoid burnout. A good practice is scheduling an hour three or four times a week in addition to guitar lessons.

Formulate goals for swift learning

Be realistic and appreciate that you cannot play like Jimi Hendrix in one day. You also should not expect that to happen within the first few months of learning. In fact, you will have trouble attempting to play complex tunes in the beginning. Therefore, keep it simple and create personal goals for swift learning. For instance, start with learning the guitar, its parts, care, and maintenance. Go to learning how to properly hold the guitar when playing standing or seated. Learn guitar chords, scales, and harmonics before learning how to read music. Such goals are valuable to help you in becoming a faster and better guitarist.    

Practice along Recorded Versions

Most guitar experts suggest that playing along to a recorded version of a song while learning will improve speed. A recorded version enables you to naturally pick up the perfect and edited rhythms. Playing to such rhythms will make you better within a short period. Melodies of a recorded song are essential in understanding how to learn guitar. This is because it can reveal play patters. If you have a difficulty, set a portion or the whole song on repeat mode and play along with it several times.

Visualize Your Success

Do you recall the Law of Attraction? We attract into our lives whatever we are focusing on and what we visualize to possess. Whatever your musical goals are, it is motivating to visualize achieving them. This is what makes most people succeed in whatever they do. It may sound melodramatic but the results are immeasurable. Visualizing your success in becoming a faster and better guitarist compels you to want to achieve it. Visualize an audience and play like your life depends on it. Perfection will rapidly start growing.

Becoming a faster and better guitar player takes time. However, it may prove a difficult endeavour without paying attention to the above hacks. Get in touch with us for more tips that will surely make you great and perhaps a renowned guitarist. Run after your musical dreams!

“I’ve always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.” – David Lynch

It was 1931 when George Beauchamp and Adolph Rikenbekerom created the first electric guitar. Since then it has taken the music industry by storm. Play rock, blues, jazz or pop music using an electric guitar. Most guitarists will remember the first time they plugged in and played an electric guitar it, gives a breath-taking experience. The electric guitar has to be plugged into an electric amplifier for any noticeable sound to be heard as the sound is produced by the amplifier and not the guitar itself. Most of the electric guitars have a solid body, uses steel-strings with no sound holes. The strings used in the electric guitar are markedly thinner than the acoustic guitar, as the sound is produced by the amplifier and not by the guitar itself. These guitars can be heavy, so wearing a shoulder strap is recommended. The size, number, and shape of the pickups may differ for each electric guitar but they all fulfill the same result of being used for heavy metal, blues, rock, and jazz music.

Guitar players constantly looked for ways to increase the sound of guitars in the early days. This quest for guitars producing louder noise intensified during the 1920s when big music band and music recording companies were all interested in inventing loud guitars.

By this time musicians and instrument makers had intensified their research to build a guitar that could produce a loud noise. At the same time, John Dopyera from National String Instrument Corporation amplified acoustic guitar by creating a steel body guitar with a resonator-amplifier built at the top. All the efforts of instrument makers paid off when George Beauchamp and Adolph Rikenbekerom created the first electric guitar in 1931. However, the sound it produced was different from an acoustic guitar and musicians found it difficult to accept.

During this period of time, a few instrument makers experimented with a different type of electric guitar. They used the same pickup as the prior designs but mounted the pickup on a solid block of wood. At around 1940, Les Paul a guitarist and an inventor built a guitar made of a solid block of pine and nicknamed it “The Log”. He mounted strings and pickups on the pine block to minimize vibrations in the body of the guitar.

At the end of the 1940s, Leo Fender, a radio repairman, introduced a mass-produced Spanish style solid body electric guitar. This guitar model was replicated by Gibson which was endorsed by Les Paul himself in 1952.

With inventions and much iteration over the years, the issue like troubled with distortions, overtones, and feedback which were associated with the early electric guitars disappeared. Musicians readily accepted the new version of the electric guitar which sounded like a guitar and at the same time produced very loud music.

The popularity of electric guitar rose during the 1950s and 1960s when it became the most important musical instrument in pop music. The electric guitar was a musical instrument that was capable of producing varieties of sounds and styles. It was instrumental in the advancement of pop music, rock music, electric blues, rock and roll and different other categories of music.

Today in this 21^st century, electric guitar features in almost all types of music which are played around the globe and is loved by men and women, young and old alike.

If you feel that you would love to learn this wonderful instrument, just give “Guitar Confidence” a call. Our instructor Rex has now been doing mobile guitar lessons for many years and brings the joy of guitar to anyone who wants to learn. We travel to over 30 cities in the East Bay and South Bay areas; including Danville, San Ramon, Dublin & Pleasanton.

So, its official, people on Yelp love Guitar Confidence! Our hard work and love of our students have earned us an award and we thank you all for making Guitar Confidence a success. We are proud to say, “people love us on Yelp”. Earning the love of customers is not easy, and it needs dedication, hard work and continuous effort to earn that love.

Guitar Confidence provides private in-home guitar, bass guitar, ukulele, banjo and mandolin lessons throughout the East Bay including: Benicia, Berkeley, Clayton, Concord, Crocket, Danville, Dublin, Fairfield, Hercules, Lafayette, Livermore, Martinez, Moraga, Orinda, Pleasant Hill, Pleasanton, San Ramon, Vallejo, & Walnut Creek, CA.

I am Rex founder and lead instructor at Guitar Confidence. I have over 40 years of experience as a musician, music instructor, arranger and performing artist. He has been a guitarist in San Francisco Bay Area and New York City recording and performing with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr., Paul Simon, Michael Jackson, Wild Cherry, The Drifters, Tammy Wynette, Jackson Brown, The Pointer Sisters, Tower of Power and many others.

My main motive behind starting Guitar Confidence is one and one thing only and that is to provide the gift of the guitar to as many people as possible by teaching them how to play guitar. Nowadays people with their busy life schedule do not find time to learn guitar and give up even before starting it. There was a time when the ability to play a musical instrument was considered an essential part of an individual’s basic education. But by 2000s, electronic diversions like music-playback machines and video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band series made the effort of mastering an actual musical instrument somewhat less appealing. However, as of today, there are more than 80 million musicians residing in the United States.

I have designed two different guitar teaching systems for beginners and accomplished guitar players. Whether you just want to play for pleasure or want to learn guitar I will help you with your dream and provide you with one to one tuition. Guitar Confidence’s mobile guitar instructors come to you to give you personal one-on-one lessons in the privacy of your own home.

I believe that music is a great force which can bring people together and create international peace, love, and brotherhood. So add music to your life by learning to play a musical instrument and stay happy.