We find that most students are ready to start learning guitar by Age 8. We have our Junior Guitar program for students aged 8-12, and we run our Teen Guitar Program for students aged 13-17. We do not take any students under the age of 7 years old.

All students will need their own guitar at home. Having said this we will provide a guitar to use in the trial lesson and can provide short-term hire guitars if need be. Advice on purchasing a guitar is included in your trial session and we'll make a recommendation on the correct size after we've met and assessed your child.

We often hear adult students worry about their hands being too small to play guitar. When it comes to kids, everyone has small hands, so it's not an issue! We take a simplified approach to learning that focuses on what success looks like at this level of development and account for the size of our hands and the level of motor control we have at a given period of development. We'll also make recommendations on what size guitar to buy so that you have a suitable instrument to learn on.

Research shows that children learn best when the frequency is high. This is why your children learn Maths and English at school every day. All of our students must commit to at least one lesson per week. We actually encourage all of our students to do at least two lessons per week and have special programs for students who want to learn at an accelerated pace.

Most of the music you hear on the radio is the product of at least 5-10 years of hard work by the recording artist. Therefore we should set our expectations that learning guitar is going to be a long-term commitment. Having said that we have created a special 'level-up' system for learning guitar that allows students to learn how to play along to real songs in a simplified way from Day 1. For example, expecting our kids to play along to a song like Hotel California in 6 months is the equivalent of expecting them to bench press 100kg... it's just not going to happen because it takes months or even years for fully developed adults to work up to this. But if we give them a broomstick, then they are going to be able to do the exercise and start working their way up until they find the threshold of their ability. We help our students play along to real songs at a 'broomstick level' and make things progressively more challenging over time until they are playing what we hear on the recording. It's a totally different approach, but that's why it's working so well!

All of our junior and teen guitar lesson programs for beginners are run as group lessons with up to 6 students per group. We train ALL of our students in groups, just like primary & secondary schools, universities, sports teams, dance schools, and martial arts clubs that use group-based learning very successfully. Private lessons are unlocked by students who have reached a higher level of proficiency on the guitar. Consideration will be given to children with special needs where a group environment isn't conducive to successful learning.

The idea that children need to start on an acoustic guitar and work their way up to an electric guitar is a myth. If your child listens to primarily rock, metal, and other electric guitar-based music then we recommend they begin on electric guitar straight away (provided you have the budget to do so). If your child listens to primarily acoustic-based music (and/or you have a lower budget for an instrument) then we recommend starting on an acoustic guitar. There are a variety of 1/4, 1/2 & 3/4 size guitars for kids and we're more than happy to provide far more detailed advice on purchasing guitars over the phone or in your trial session.