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- NEW ALBUM: Joe Bonamassa “Driving Towards The Daylight”
- Slow Jam The News with Barack Obama & The Roots: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
- Guitarist Magazine Launches Deluxe Edition iPad App
- Bert Weedon, Play In A Day Author, Dies Aged 91 RIP – 1920-2012
- Tom Petty’s Guitars Stolen From Tour Rehearsal
- Axl Rose Publicly Declines His Induction Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame In Open Letter To All
- RIP Jim Marshall OBE ~ 1923-2012
- MonkeyFest 2012 Cancelled
- Rockschool Launches Version 4 Guitar Syllabus on May 1st!
- Introducing: Phoenix Pro – The Guitar Plugin That Turns Hacks into Shredders
- SONISPHERE CANCELLED!
- 2012 G3 European Tour feat. Steve Vai, Joe Satriani & Steve Morse
- Slash performs the Allman Brothers classic ‘Jessica’ on BBC’s Top Gear show
- John Mayer forced to take “indefinite hiatus” and cancel US tour
- Eric Johnson announces first ever UK tour!
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- Just been working from the @Rockschool grade 5 book with @iisBigD for his exam later this year. Alka Sezter, All Funked Up and Bust Up. 8 hours ago
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- @NOWBath - I'll be teaching guitar to little rockers at @KESBath Pre-Prep today. Rock N' Roll! \m/. .\m/ 16 hours ago
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- "Without deviations from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa 12 hours ago
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- I met this wonderful orphaned sea otter pup called Cayucos at the @shedd_aquarium when I was in Chicago in February: youtu.be/Xb3KqtOBcLw 1 day ago
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Tag Archives: City of Bath College
Bath Guitar Festival 2011 – Newton Faulkner, Ben Prestage, Juan Martin, To’Mezclao
Newton Faulkner kicks off the Bath Guitar Festival with a fantastic live performance at the Bath Forum. The guitar festival, now in its 19th year, has returned to the city of Bath after a one-year hiatus and promises to deliver … Continue reading
Posted in City of Bath College, Music, Review, Website, Workshop
Tagged Bath Forum, Bath Guitar Festival, Ben Prestage, British Blues, Chapel Arts Centre, City of Bath College, Concert, Guitar Heroes, Guitar Techniques, IGF, International Guitar Foundation, Juan Martin, Neville Marten, Newton Faulkner, Richard Perkins, Tallis Morris, The Guildhall, The Pavillion, To'Mezclao, Workshop
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Royal Wedding ~ Picnic in the Park at Royal Victoria Park, Bath
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Royal Victoria Park in Bath for the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Well-wishers arrived as early as 8am to claim prime spots in the famous park, and by the time the … Continue reading
Posted in Video, Website, Photography, Music, News, Review, Royal Wedding
Tagged BBC Radio Bristol, City of Bath College, Bath, Rage Against The Machine, Kate Middleton, Prince William, Rainy and the Dust, Will and the People, Bootleg Beatles, Royal Wedding, Victoria Park, Bath & North East Somerset Council, Bath Music Plus, Sam & Lily X, Tallis Morris, Bite The Buffalo, Andy Howard, Tony Moore, Cutting Crew, (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight, Bath Philharmonia, White Stripes, Womad, ICMP, Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, The Heartbreakers, South West Group, Richmond Events Management, B&NES, Mumford and Sons
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CofBC tutor play through #2
As part of the students learning at City of Bath College the instrumental tutors perform to the class presenting them with a close look at the structures, techniques and musical approaches that different genres of music demand. This term we are … Continue reading
Posted in City of Bath College, Lesson, Music, Video
Tagged Bath Guitar School, City of Bath College, Clive Stocker, Duncan Kingston, Free Guitar Lessons, Guitar, Guitar Lesson, Guitar Tuition, Lee Risdale, Motown, Performance, Richard Perkins, Stevie Wonder, Superstition, Tom Gardiner
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CofBC Pop 1 graded play-through #2
This was the second opportunity for my CofBC Pop 1s to perform solo to the class. Building on the lessons learned from their previous play-through, the students chose a song to perform in front of what will be one of their … Continue reading
Posted in City of Bath College, Music, Video, Website
Tagged Bath Guitar School, Castlevania Theme, City of Bath College, Classical, Dan Streeter, Decadence Dance, Extreme, Gus Hackett, Jack Baker, Joe Downes, Josh Boniface, Lee Snow, Play-through, Pop 1, Richard Perkins, Ryan Strudwick, Sam Davies, Tom Burton, Zack Mapp
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CofBC tutor play through #1
As part of the students learning at City of Bath College the instrumental tutors perform to the class presenting them with a close look at the structures, techniques and musical approaches that different genres of music demand. During this term … Continue reading
CofBC Pop 1 graded play-through #1
My Pop 1 guitar students at the City of Bath College were set a task to learn a song to performance standard for a play-through to a classroom of their peers on their return to college this term. The class … Continue reading
CAGED System: Arpeggios
This post is for my students at the City of Bath College. This is the third installment of the CAGED system and like the CAGED chord and scale shapes in my previous blog posts this CAGED arpeggio system creates five … Continue reading
CAGED System: Scales
This post is for my students at the City of Bath College. This is the second installment of the CAGED system and like the CAGED chord shapes in my previous blog post this CAGED scale system creates five scale shapes … Continue reading
CAGED System: Chords
This post is for my students at the City of Bath College. The CAGED system is a very useful way to find your way around the fretboard. The system uses the five main chord shapes played in the open position – … Continue reading
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Tagged Bath Guitar School, CAGED, Chords, City of Bath College, Free Guitar Lessons, Guitar, Guitar Lesson, Guitar Tuition, Richard Perkins
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Funk Chord Progression
This post is for my students at the City of Bath College. Funk chord progression from Tuesdays class: Download this funk chord progression sheet: download .pdf Task Take the chord shapes from previous blog post: download .pdf Take the rhythm … Continue reading
