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Ever wanted to perform at a gig playing your Stratocaster in front of a paying audience of a multitude of admirers? Guitar idols such as Ritchie Blackmore, Tony Iommi, and Keith Richards didn’t learn guitar by accident, nor were they born fantastic guitar players. They all had to learn to play, and they were all novices once upon a time, just like the rest of us. It’s all-important to master simple guitar skills, such as power chords, strumming techniques and palm muting, before moving on to more advanced guitar playing.

Beginners can learn to play guitar in four different ways:

• - Downloading internet guitar lesson videos
• - Private guitar teacher
• - Your local education authority may offer guitar lessons
• - Take guitar lessons by joining a Rock School

There are literally many hundreds of beginner video guitar lessons online available to download. The problem with ‘free’, however, is that you often get what you pay for and the quality is usually not great. As a beginner, it is difficult to know whether your online guitar teacher is actually a good guitarist, how can you be sure, if you are a beginner?

The quality of paid videos is often better, but there are exceptions and its very difficult to know, in advance, whether your cash has been spent wisely.

Guitar tuition with a local tutor remains a good choice, but not the best one for beginners. Private guitar lessons can be too formal and structured to be effective for kids, who do need a dose of enjoyment into their lessons. Kids get inspired when they learn to play alongside their friends. Kids learn more, faster, and are encouraged by learning with their friends jamming and playing in a band.

You may have considered enrolling for guitar lessons at a local school. Local school guitar lessons are often not the right way for beginners to learn guitar, and many children leave after the first few lessons. The environment is inappropriate (how can you have fun in a “school”?), the music teacher is a middle-aged Mr Jones, unfashionable with patches on the elbows of his corduroy jacket, and finally – what children want to do when school finishes is to leave the school premises as fast as possible!

The option that works best for kids beginning to play guitar is to join a local Rock School. Playing in a rock group is an enjoyable experience for children, and they can be competent guitar players within a few months. Parents often make the point that that they don’t have to keep nagging their kids to practice at home, because they actually want to practice and improve to keep up with their friends. However, not all Rock Schools are the same – you do need to check the teacher-pupil ratio as many rock schools have just one or two teachers covering up to 20 kids, which means its a simple children’s activity not a serious school.

You must cover these points before you sign up for lessons at a Rock School:

• - One teacher should not instruct more than two guitar beginners at a time
• - Guitar teachers should be enthusiastic, and of high playing standard
• - A written course syllabus should be provided to parents
• - Students progress must be monitored and reported back to parents
• Free trial or taster sessions before you commit any money

Very few Rock Schools can honestly claim to answer all these questions – one that does is Clivesmusic EasyLearn Rock Schools which may have a school near you which you can contact. A growing uk network of around 80 rock schools and in business for 30 years, they have successfully taught manyhundreds of students. Visit www.Clivesmusicbrighton.com to find out more about Clives Rock Schools guitar lessons.