Special offer: Give the Gift of (Learning How to Make) Music

In the past days I have been approached for guitar lessons by people  that have time on their hands during the summer holidays and want to learn some more guitar or that would normally not be able to fit in guitar lessons in their busy schedules.

If you know one of these and are thinking about gifts:
 a 4+1 voucher guitar lessons may just be the perfect gift.

Prices vary depending on the duration of the lessons:

•  4+1 * 45 minutes $120  (4* $30 plus free fifth lesson –>
  $30 discount)
• 4+1 * 60 minutes $150   (4*$40 plus free fifth lesson –>
  $40 discount)
• 4+1 * 90 minutes $240  (4* $ 60 plus free fifth lesson –>
  $60 discount)
• 4+1 *120 Minutes $300 (4* $80 plus free fifth lesson –>
  $80 discount)

You can download and print your gift voucher here >>> and contact me for booking in your lessons: 03 3424232 / 027 480 3371 or johnmusicnz@gmail.com. Please advise you are using a gift voucher.

Five Online Guitar Magazines

Personally, nothing beats getting a copy of the Total Guitar or Guitar Techniques and subsequently placing myself in a chair in the sun in the garden or cuddling up on the couch with a cup of coffee. At the same time there is a wealth of magazines available online for free. Here are five of my favorites.

Guitar Player Magazine

One of my old guitar magazines of choice, has a substantial site for the guitar player with lessons, articles, interviews, gear reviews and more. A definite recommend.  Go and visit here >>>

Premier Guitar

A comprehensive guitar magazine with everything you may expect from a modern guitar magazine. Gear reviews, lessons, and more. Go visit the magazine here >>>

A free subscription to the digital version of the magazine is available, including the option to search back issues. A big recommend.

Interactive Guitar

Guitar Interactive is the world’s first fully interactive digital magazine for guitarists the world over – and it’s completely free! Drawing on the resources of Licklibrary – the internationally renowned music teaching resource – GI brings together expert players to analyse the styles and techniques of the world’s best guitarists, which you can see and hear in the hours of video that are in every issue.

An amazing new magazine and a very definite recommendation with a free subscription available here >>>. What appealed especially is the way in which the magazine actually reads like a magazine but on screen.

Total Guitar

One of my favorite magazines to pick up in the shop and read. It comes with a free CD/DVD with further instructions, lessons and play along tracks. Go see the magazine here >>>.

Guitar Techniques

It is through this magazine that I keep myself growing. Monthly lessons that push the beginner as well as the advanced players. Great magazine that comes with a CD/DVD with further information, lessons and sound samples. My favorite.

Go visit the site and magazine here >>>

What are your Favorite Guitar Magazines?

It is impossible I guess to be complete, else Id spend more time browsing and reading that playing. So I limited myself to five of my favorites here. What are some of your favorite music magazines and why?  I look forward to hearing about your recommendations.

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Van Baalen vanderValk Bergman

I personally think it is good to promote your good friends and fellow musicians and Coen and I go way back to my high school days (pff that is actually quite a long time ago).

It was with great pleasure that I heard the trio on West Radio.

http://www.westonline.nl/swf/player.swf

The trio’s newly released album Port 010 is now available at i-Tunes. The album moves very eloquently from blues to almost ECM like atmospheric music offering the listener a new experience every time.

I suggest you go check it out and if you like what you hear buy some of the tunes or the whole album.

Lead Guitar Intensive Course January 2011 a few places left

Set yourself up to become a guitar hero in two weeks.

Would you like to close of your summer holiday by setting yourself up for a year of musical growth? In that case the Lead Guitar Intensive Course is just for you.



The complete brochure can be read here >>>

Course Dates: 17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 28 January 2011

Time: 9.30 AM- 2 PM

Price: NZ$ 250 only for 24 hours of intensive training (course materials and refreshments included).

SEE YOU THERE.

Summer School Two Week Intensive Courses

This summer two intensive courses are planned for guitar players who want to take their playing further and set themselves up for breakthrough technical and musical development.

Lead Guitar Intensive Course

Get the presentation here >>>>

Jazz Guitar Fundamentals

Get the presentation here >>>>

I look forward to hearing from you.

Students Happy with Lessons via Skype

The guitar lessons via skype turn out to be a real blessing. It beats the impersonal video and makes it possible to enjoy a lesson at your convenience without having to leave the home but with the advantages of being tutored face to face.

Here’s what one new student said:

It works and it great!!! In a fortnite another one. Highly recommended folks!!

Book now as places are sort of limited.

National Recording Studios Open Day – May 29

Saturday May 29 will see a fresh addition to the annual NZ Music Month calendar with the first
national “Recording Studios Open Day”.

Between midday and 4pm, a variety of professional studios around the country will open their front doors
to anyone interested in taking a look inside. Owners, engineers and staff will be on hand
to answer any questions about the studio and the recording, mixing
and record mastering processes.

The national “Recording Studios Open Day” is a new initiative aimed at encouraging more musicians to take
advantage of the wide range of recording studios and in-house recording professionals available around the country.

Co-ordinated by New Zealand Musician magazine www.nzmusician.co.nz the afternoon provides a rare opportunity
for musicians, artist managers, music students (and those expected to fund new recordings) to find out more about local studio
facilities, as well as the distinct audio quality benefits of recording in a professional studio environment.

Participating studios range from the high-end and long established likes of York Street and Stebbing Recording Center in Auckland,
to Palmerston North’s vibrant and incredibly low cost community facility known as The Stomach. Entry is free and each studio will offer its own
program of information and entertainment.

Studios participating

Recording Studios Open Day,
Saturday May 29, midday to 4pm:

York Street, Parnell Auckland www.yorkstreet.co.nz or ph (09) 307 1444

The Stomach, Palmerston North: www.creativesounds.org.nz or ph (06) 359 0120

The Colour Field, Tauranga: email: info@fragilecolours.com or ph 027 667 3737

TMV Studios, Levin: www.tmv.co.nz or ph (06) 368 3655

Tandem Studios, Christchurch: www.tandemstudios.co.nz or ph (03) 366 7281

STL Audio, Victoria St, Wellington: www.stlaudio.co.nz or ph (04) 801 5602

Stebbing Recording Center, Herne Bay Auckland www.stebbing.co.nz or openday@stebbing.co.nz

PAF - Villa Number 9, Porirua: www.paf.co.nz or ph 027 454 8523

Earwig Studios, Birkenhead Auckland: www.earwigstudios.co.nz or ph (09) 480 2219

Depot Sound, Devonport Auckland: www.depotsound.co.nz

For more information see:
www.nzmusician.co.nz or email: info@musicexpo.co.nz

Compliments: Richard Thorne – The Music Expo
09 373 2572
021 908 327
info@musicexpo.co.nz

NEWS – NOW GUITAR LESSONS ONE ON ONE VIA THE NET – NEWS

Living too far away to drive to guitar lessons, or just want the occasional lesson at the convenience of your own living room or music room or actually even your bedroom (provided you have internet connection there), consider one on one live lessons via skype.  All it takes is you, your guitar (an amp if applicable) a web cam and microphone. Besides skype I am looking at alternatives like yahoo messenger and msn messenger.

This may just be the solution for younger students that do not want to be traveling in the evening hours or where other commitments make it more convenient to stay at home while still receiving instructions.

Just email me, and you’ll be receiving firther instructions on payment and we ca book a lesson at a time that works for both off us. Payments are accepted via bank transfer/electronic payment, paypal and/or credit card.

Contact me for more information >>>

John joins New Zealand Modern School of Music

As of today I joined the Christchurch team of guitar tutors at the New Zealand Modern School of Music .

The New Zealand Modern School of Music was established in 1952 and utilizing a network of tutors throughout New Zealand the school offers tuition in several instruments, including but not limited to piano, keyboard, guitar, vocals, woodwind and others.

The school offers opportunities for end of term concerts, theory and practical exams. Whilst participation in New Zealand Modern School of music activities is encouraged, participation is optional.

Teaching is based on a programmatic approach covering all relevant aspects of music practice and theory thus providing students a solid theoretical as well as practical basis in all aspects of traditional to modern contemporary music. Students go through the program and develop from learning right and left hand notated music, to notated music from 1900 onwards to more modern styles and an emphasis of improvisation and creativity, achieved by studying of chords, base patterns backed up by technique and music theory. Students this develop their own style/interpretation of popular music pieces.

More information on tutors in your area can be obtained through the national website of the New Zealand Modern School of Music.

For the Christchurch region more information can be obtained through Christchurch area manager Margaret Shearing.

N.Z. MODERN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

325 Sawyerrs Arms Road, Christchurch 8053

Phone: 03 359 7500

Email: msmch @ inet. net. nz

I look forward seeing you.