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Electric Guitar

“Learning the electric guitar is an exciting and expressive way to explore modern music, offering endless creative possibilities across rock, pop, blues, metal, funk, and many other genres. “

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Electric Guitar Lesson with John

Electric guitar playing focuses on tone, technique, and musical style, allowing students to shape their sound through amplification, effects, and playing approach. From powerful riffs to expressive lead lines, learning the electric guitar encourages confidence, creativity, and individuality.

Learning the Electric Guitar

One of the greatest benefits of learning electric is the freedom to choose your own learning path. At Booths Music, students can focus on modern or classic songs, develop soloing and improvisation skills, or work towards graded exams with contemporary exam boards such as Rockschool (RSL). These exams are designed around real-world playing, assessing technique, stylistic accuracy, rhythm skills, and performance confidence within modern electric guitar styles.

Many musicians have followed different guitar pathways, but learning the electric guitar offers a particularly versatile and inspiring route into band performance, songwriting, and recording. Skills developed on electric guitar transfer easily between styles and genres, making it a flexible choice for both beginners and advancing players.

Electric Vs Other Styles

The electric guitar differs in important ways from other guitar styles. Compared to acoustic guitar, which relies purely on natural resonance, electric guitar allows greater control over volume, sustain, and tone, making it ideal for lead playing and expressive techniques such as bending, vibrato, and effects use. In contrast to bass guitar, which focuses on rhythm and harmonic foundation, electric guitar often takes a melodic or lead role within a band. When compared with classical guitar, traditionally associated with notation-based study and exam boards such as Trinity, electric guitar learning is typically more performance-driven and style-focused, often using chord charts, tabs, and backing tracks.

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"My 8 year old came in on Sunday for his first guitar lesson with James. At 12.00 he had to be told that he was holding his guitar the wrong way round and at 12.30 he came home to show his Mum he could play Jurassic World!!!! He's full of enthusiasm and cant wait for next week. Thank you."
Barry Watson
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"My daughter has been going to guitar lessons and has come on leaps n bounds in a short time. Tutors and staff are so friendly it's great. Would recommend anyone to start lessons here or just go in and look around lots to offer."
Leanne Ailsa Rowles
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"Excellent guitar lessons for my son. He’s made more progress in 3 weeks than 2 yrs at school in a mixed group!!"
Dan Davies
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"Friendly welcome and great tutors. I'm currently getting back into Classical guitar grades, after a long hiatus. I'm really enjoying it. 😊"
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Building Skills and Confidence

Learning the electric guitar also means following in the footsteps of some of the most iconic musicians in music history. From the expressive blues of Jimi Hendrix, the technical mastery of Eric Clapton, and the stadium-filling riffs of Jimmy Page, to the modern styles of players such as Slash, John Mayer, and Tom Morello, electric guitarists have shaped the sound of generations. Through electric guitar lessons at Booths Music, students can explore these influential styles, develop their own tone and technique, and build the confidence to create a unique musical voice of their own.

Why Choose Booths?

At Booths Music, every guitar tutor is happy to support your chosen style of electric guitar learning. Whether you want to focus on rhythm guitar, lead guitar, improvisation, exam preparation, or simply playing your favourite songs, our tutors tailor lessons to suit your goals, interests, and pace of learning.

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