Vancouver Guitar Lessons

At Blue Guitar Studio, we offer guitar lessons to students of all levels and ages, developing customized lesson plans for students. Our music instructors have post-secondary degrees in music from esteemed institutions. We have been providing guitar lessons in Vancouver and Burnaby for over 10 years and pride ourselves in ensuring we provide our students with a high level of instruction and engagement to help them succeed.

Beginner/Intermediate Guitar Lessons:

  • Information on buying the right guitar, amp, and other gear

  • Learn how to tune and take care of your guitar, ukulele, bass or drums

  • Get started playing your favourite songs on guitar!

  • Learn the proper guitar technique and avoiding building bad habits

  • Learn all of the open chords for guitar and barre chords

  • Learn how to increase your speed through different guitar exercises

  • Give you strategies on moving from chord to chord in a more economical way

  • Develop a better understanding of rhythm and how guitar strumming patterns work

  • Work on your ability to sing and play guitar at the same time

  • Develop your inner songwriter

  • Record and produce your songs

  • Video recordings of each guitar lesson for reference at home

  • Learn how to read guitar tab and write traditional notation

Intermediate/Advanced Guitar Lessons:

  • Preparation for music exams and college entrance auditions

  • Expand your music theory and learn how to analyze songs you already know

  • Develop your ear training and begin to learn songs by ear

  • Develop your sight reading skills

  • Learn more advanced chord voicings including inversions, 7th chords, and suspended chords

  • Learn how to connect positions of the pentatonic scale and play over the entire neck

  • Lean and memorize the notes on the guitar fretboard

  • Develop your guitar soloing and improvise through scale, chord and arpeggio exercises

  • Advanced guitar solo techniques: economy picking, sweep picking, bending, sliding, legato, harmonics

  • Learn how to utilize the different modes of major and minor

Misc:

  • Pro Tools, Logic or music producing, arranging, composing, writing and stage performance.

Guitar Lessons for Kids

Blue Guitar Studio also offers guitar lessons for kids. Our children’s guitar instructors focus on the basic building blocks of playing guitar while making the lesson fun and engaging with recognizable songs, games, and activities.

Our priority is to help children develop a love of music and learning, and to provide them with learning materials that they are excited about. We do this by tailoring our lessons to each individual student, to ensure that we are meeting their needs and goals, and they are having so much fun they can’t wait to come back for the next lesson!