Guitar Growing Guide. Learn the guitar or unlock the fun of your guitar.

From 36.62 £ /h

Learining the guitar or improving your skills is a wonderfull journey. But like all journeys you'll find your way quicker with a good guide. I've been hiking around music and music teaching for over 20 years-so I know how to guide you. And what have I learned? The faster you have fun on the guitar, the more you will play! And the more curious you will get about guitar and music.

For the intermediate and advanced guitarist, it's all about becoming a musician and expressing you, not copying someone else. Of course you are influenced and so we will start of with your influence, but we will get to know the real you as we progress into the wonderful world of music and guitar playing.

I have been playing for over 25 years and teaching for more than 15 years. From 7 to 77. I gig, record and write lots of music as a guitarist and conductor. I also play the ukelele, bass, cajon, piano and I have a voice too!

Extra information

Bring some music you like!

Location

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At student's location :

Around Brussels, Belgium

At teacher's location :

Nathalie Malanda, Dieudonné Lefèvrestraat, Brussels, Belgium

Online from Belgium

About Me

Freelance artist based in Brussels. I gig, play, create, write and breath music for over 15 years. Guitar is my first instrument, but not my last.
Music is my main discipline but I am experienced in theater as well. If you can do it on stage I tried it.

Music/art education is my passion for over 10 years. I worked in schools, public spaces, cultural centres, retirement homes, organisations,...and made music with over 6.000 people over the years.

Education

Finished classical academie (Lebbeke 1998)
Private tutoring for 5 years with Daniel Miranda (brazilian guitarist)
Master in Philosophy (VUB)2008, Brussels
Master in Street Philosophy (Brussels) 2002-now (work in progress)

Experience / Qualifications

GC Zandloper Wemmel
GC Bosuil Overijse
CCM Molenbeek
Brom Molenbeek
Brom Sint-Agatha Berchem
Toca_Taca
Familie Verhip

Age

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

60 minutes

The class is taught in

English

French

Dutch

Skills

Guitar

Acoustic

Blues

Classical

Pop

Rock

Folk

Indie & alternative

Country & bluegrass

Song & varieties

Music teacher training

Music theory

Availability of a typical week

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12-16

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20-24

Lou-Indigo

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The course that I propose is BILINGUAL FRENCH / ENGLISH, as well as 2 BOOKS.

Age and musical taste are not restrictive when in the program, you can with qualitative daily work (not quantitative) quickly observe your progress.

Here the pleasure of playing music is put forward.

The kind of music you love most will be the focus of the course, their codes and secrets will be the focus of our study, that's what I want to share with you.

We can do technical lessons and simply learn together how to play one or more songs of your choice or mine, enrich your game with this approach and your repertoire!

(For example, We can re-arrange the pieces and make them more original by approaching the system (CAGED), and enriching their chords, resulting in new positions, new techniques and new sounds, using arpeggio techniques rather than strumming for 4-chord pieces, voicing and fingerstyle techniques, in short, expanding the instrument's playing fields and playing skills to keep progressing in your game and improve your rehearsals ...)

If you make a request, this program is obviously accompanied by the pleasure of learning more in theory and being able to directly apply new knowledge on its instrument and identify its common or rare use in the pieces discussed in class.

In this case, the theory is translated to be accessible to anyone, both for those who are connoisseurs and for those who discover everything from absolute zero.
The exercises, songs, and theoretical explanations offered throughout the program are organized in an order of progressive difficulty.

I wrote and produced 2 books of my method to learn the guitar and the music, that I sell to accompany my course and your apprenticeship in the best conditions and so that you can continue the course even at home and to review etc ... .
There is ONE BOOK OF COURSES containing all the theoretical and practical program of the year, as well as a BOOK OF EXERCISE on the ranges and the modes that you can obtain directly.

You can find here an indicative list of objectives that I propose in my theoretical program, which can of course adapt to your request.

The general theoretical objectives of the course:

--- Tuning / tuning and knowing his guitar:
* Standard Tuning
* Drop Tuning
* Open Tuning
* Adjust the optimal tension of the strings
* Adjust the shaft axis
* Adjust the action of the strings
* Choose the strings adapted to the style of play / tuning
* Change his strings

-Know his chords:
* Triads: Fundamental State & Inversions
* Tetrads: Fundamental State & Inversions
* The chord progressions of the Range
* Arpeggio techniques (tapping, sweep, 1/2/4 fing.shape, etc ...)

--- Know his scales and his modes

* The Mode of the Major scale
* 3 Modes of the Minor scale: Natural / Melodic / Harmonic
* Modes of the Pentatonic range: 5 positions
* Modes of the Blues range: 5 positions
Etc ...

--- Technique to the Pick / Plectrum / Tab / Pick (Electric Guitar):
* Alternate Picking
* Fast Picking / Tremolo Picking
* Hybrid Picking
* Palm Mute
* Natural Harmonics
* Pinch Harmonics
* Artificial Harmonics
* Shredding
* Tapping
* Sweep Picking
* Legato Picking

--- Strumming / Hand Picking (Acoustic Guitar)
* "SnareDrum" percussion on the guitar
* Arpeggios pinched with 4 fingers + thumb
* Rasgueado (Flamenco Technique)
* Generic Strumming
* Fingerstyle Picking
* Two-finger picking + Legato for fast melodies (eg a solo)

-Play the metronome
* exercises on click
* practice on song riffs

-Learn his favorite songs
* without thinking about the difficulty, nothing is impossible with the right methodology

-Improvise
* choose ranges and positions
* to place oneself rhythmically, to finish on the judicious notes

-Theory of Harmony
* Understand harmonization and its practice

-Theory on the Melody

-Theory of Rhythm

Nate

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" UNIQUE "
What if telling your story with music could be fun and playful?

Don't waste hours going around in circles, constantly searching for videos on YouTube to learn in a simple and structured way.

To finally be able to express your feelings, your emotions, all through the guitar?

It's possible! And what we'll see through my lessons: you'll learn how to tune the instrument, practice its first chords, and quickly play your first songs.

Develop your ear and musical identity by exploring styles such as pop, rock, country, blues, jazz, bossa nova, funk just to name a few.

Discover and explore the richness of scales and modes to combine them with playing expressions like hammer-ons, pull-offs, legato, bends... Does that sound like Chinese to you? I understand. Through my lessons, all of this will no longer hold any secrets for you!

Whether you have no experience or a few weeks of practice under your belt, we will go step by step, taking into account your level, so that you progress at your own pace.

Without forgetting the most important thing: have fun!

Ana

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I am a cello teacher, musical awakening and music theory. My classes are for people of all ages. From toddlers to adults.

I graduated with two bachelor's degrees from the Real Conservatorio de Música de Madrid and the Koninklijke Conservatorium Brussels.

I graduated from the Master's degree at the Koninklijke Conservatorium Brussels with Olsi Leka, principal cellist of the Belgian National Orchestra.

Here you have the opportunity to offer your children the best gift in the world... Learn the long way about music: a beautiful and fun introduction to music.

My classes are in Spanish, English and French.
I would be really happy to help you!

Camille

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Folk or classical acoustic guitar.

The teaching philosophy is adapted to the level of each individual, according to the pace of work and motivation.

For example, for beginners: Technique of the plectrum or fingers, coordination and correction of the right and left hand. Learning basic chords, simple themes, simple rhythms, reading tablatures (...).

For intermediaries: development of rhythm, construction of chords, writing of tablatures, basic notions of harmony (...).

Depending on your goals, you can learn, if you wish, to play 60 to 80% of current music from the first lessons, which often use the same chords and the same techniques. The objectives take into consideration the following points:

-Study of various playing techniques, chords, harmony, music of your choice, rhythm, with reading of tablature, teaching structured around the repertoire you like, technique of developing the musical ear
- Discovery of the neck, notes and basic positions of open chords
- Left / right hand coordination and rhythm exercises for the right hand
- Learning of different pieces of your choice
- Left hand control exercises, speed and precision
- Learning arpeggios
- Work around muscle memory
- Learning improvisation, musical play with others
- Ear training: use your ears to find chords, melodies, sounds and techniques used
-Spend a pleasant moment of exchange, without unnecessary institutional pressure, while obtaining concrete results
-Understand and discover the many facets of an exciting and user-friendly instrument
- Benefit from personalized advice on your posture and certain pitfalls to avoid when starting alone
-Adjust and clarify your self-taught knowledge
- Learn tablatures / tabs & in English.

Note :
- Possibility to use the guitar available on site, during the test phase.
- As our teacher is also a singing teacher, it is possible to combine the two disciplines: guitar + vocal instrument, and to work on synchronization, style and accuracy.
- Possibility of offering this course (birthday, party, Christmas, event ...) to the person of your choice.

THE TEACHER :
Trained in Grande Ecole post-preparatory classes & Ivy League university in the United States, our teacher has specialized and has worked for more than 15 years, in Europe and North America, in the field, in renowned international public and private establishments, with careful pedagogy and methodology as the watchwords.

PLACES :
- Locations: Geneva-Lausanne-Friborg-Neuchâtel-Montreux-Bâle-Sion-Sierre-Morges-Bienne. But currently, only by videoconference in accordance with national recommendations on Covid. These sessions also seem to be perfectly unanimous since they have the advantages of direct (example: quality of the interaction), without its disadvantages (ex: loss of travel time), with additional advantages (ex: of notes on the chat, which can be reread afterwards). In this context, these videoconference sessions for which you have requested me, seem to arouse a certain enthusiasm (and a certain enthusiasm). At your request, I therefore continue to offer them.

Ngoc

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I am a Vietnamese pianist and I would love to share nice music with you in a friendly environment. I have finished my Master's in piano specialization at the Royal Conservatory of Liège and piano accompaniment at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Giving concerts, making some recordings, working in both classical and contemporary music, and with more than 10 years of experience in teaching, I would be happy to share all my knowledge and enjoy the music together!

Emidio

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Are you a beginner?? No worries: no experience is required! 😁
I can teach you the basics to produce sounds with your saxophone: position of the embouchure (teeth, tongue, lips and vocal cords' position, an element often forgotten), fingerings, use of diafragma,...
After the first two lessons spent on the mouthpiece and neck for the sound production, we will immediately start to play some super easy duos together to practice your capacity of listening, pay attention to the other, ear training as well. I normally use the book of Peter Wastall (titled Learn as you play) as support, but it is not mandatory. There are plenty of good books btw!

Are you an intermediate / advanced student?? I am sure you can still improve in all the basics, but on a different level. I'll teach you the importance of the "voicing" (technique named by the american saxophonist and pedagogue Donald Sinta) to improve your sound production and projection as well as the capacity of correcting and improving the intonation. You can learn all about phrasing and music interpretation, from tonal music until contemporary atonal compositions. And still, you can improve your playing together, practicing in duo on different aspects like tuning, balance, interpretation, performance etc.

Book a lesson and try! If you are not happy, give me a feedback and go on. If you are happy, I will be happy to help you becoming a good musician!

Jeremy

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Hi, my name is Jeremy and I’m a professional funk bassist. I've been playing music for 19 years, having performed and composed with many groups and ensembles across England and Belgium.

I will teach you how to reach your goals while having fun in the process, keeping lessons tailored to your personal needs. I have years of experience helping students improve as well as experience in many different styles of music such as Funk, Rock, reggae, jazz, blues etc! Some examples of what you might learn include:

- The basics and advice for beginners
- What makes a good bassline
- Learning songs that you like
- Breaking down rhythms & dynamics
- Essential music theory for bass & more advanced techniques (eg: melodic techniques, rhythmic, slap bass, etc)
- improvising, jamming and playing with others

Appropriate homework/exercises and recordings are provided during lessons. I also like to give advice and direction for people with musical aspirations. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Pierre

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I study the horn at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and I offer music theory/musical training lessons for all ages from 7 years old, for levels ranging from beginner to first year of conservatory.
I am now a psychology student at UGent, and I also play the cello.

Julián

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Embark on a musical journey with our comprehensive lessons. We offer courses for all levels, covering piano, drums, guitar, ukulele, solfège, harmony, and composition. Whether you prefer theoretical, practical, or a blend of both, we tailor the learning experience to your preference.

Master the techniques of your chosen instrument, delve into solfège, and explore the art of musical composition. Our lessons are designed to be dynamic and engaging, providing a structured environment for your musical growth.

Discover the joy of learning your favorite songs while developing a strong foundation in music. Whether you're a beginner or looking to enhance your skills, our dedicated instructors are here to guide you on your musical journey. Enroll now and unlock your full musical potential.

Vera

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Whether you would like to refine your technique, enlarge your repertoire or start from the beginning, I will focus on designing the route for your next musical journey.
I am a graduate of the Institut Royal de Musique et de Pédagogie (IMEP) in Belgium, with a violin specialized Master’s degree (2023) and a Pedagogical Master’s degree (2025). With more than 3 years of experience with students from 5 years old to adults.

Debora

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Hi! I’m offering violin lessons for beginners and anyone who wants to improve their playing. I’ve been playing violin for 11 years.

We’ll start with the basics like posture, bow hold, and reading notes, and then move on to fun pieces that you actually enjoy. I’m very patient and calm.

If you’ve always wanted to try violin or you just want to build your skills, I’d be really happy to help you !!

Lorenzo

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DJ Lessons – Learn, Create, Express

I’ll help you improve your DJing skills by giving you the right tools, mindset, and professional insight.
My lessons are not just about technique — they’re about understanding how to grow as an artist, build your own sound, and position yourself in the music scene.

What we’ll cover:

Recognizing and understanding different music genres — from the basics to advanced mixing approaches

Essential music theory

Managing DJ software such as Rekordbox (playlist creation, track organization, and playlist export)

Mixing techniques: beatmatching, EQ balance, harmonic mixing

How to use loops

Practical setup tips for live DJ sets

How to prepare and structure a DJ set

And much more, depending on your level and goals

In short:
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I am a professional drummer, composer, and performer based in Brussels, with an active career in jazz, improvised, and creative music across Europe.

Whether your background is rock, pop, world, indie, or anything else, we focus on what serves your music, and on what learning this instrument can become. My goal is not to tell you strictly how things should be done, but to help you find your own way of doing them. To strengthen the musician that already exists inside you, and give you the tools to grow with confidence and independence.

I offer private drum lessons focused on long term development rather than isolated sessions. My work with students is based on regular weekly lessons, helping each drummer build solid technique, musical awareness, sound, and a personal voice in the instrument.

These lessons are for:
- Beginners who want a strong and musical foundation
- Intermediate players who want to improve groove, coordination, and confidence
- Creative musicians interested in improvisation, sound, and advanced rhythmic development.

My approach is practical and human. We work on what you really need, from basic technique and time feel to more advanced topics like independence, phrasing, and creative practice methods.

I mainly work with students who are interested in continuity and real progress through regular lessons.