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Family learning - learn to play an Electric Guitar with your children (taster session)  

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Code: T24BB3522  

Location: Bolsover ACE Centre  

Cost: Free  

Starting: Tuesday 03 June 2025 

Duration: 1 sessions over 1 week(s)

Time: 2.00pm 

By continuing you confirm that you are enrolling onto an adult learning course and that you are aged 19 or over on 1 September 2024, or you are enrolling a young person aged 14-18 on 31 August 2024 specifically onto one of our Study Programme courses, and that you agree to the Terms and Conditions.

 

Description

This Family learning taster session is for you if you want to learn how to start playing and build your confidence playing the electric guitar with your children. You will learn how to hold the guitar correctly and comfortably, what the different parts of a guitar do, how to safely set the controls on the amplifier and the guitar to get different tones, how to carefully tune the guitar (we will demonstrate this at the start of the session), how to play clear notes and basic scale exercises, how to play basic chords, have a go at strumming in time with some popular songs, how we can use these chords to play songs that adults and children can enjoy playing together.
Adults and children learning to play a guitar together. One adult may bring up to 2 children. Children must be 8 years old and over. Our courses are for people who live in Derbyshire aged 19 and over.
This is a classroom-based course. The course will be a mix of tutor-led activities, demonstrations, individual and group work. Your tutor will give you support and feedback, so you know what to do to improve. There will also be notes, diagrams and other information to help remember what we have learned so you can carry on to a full course later on.
There will be guitars and amplifiers for us to use at the Centre.
Please bring a notebook if you wish but notes will be provided by the tutor.
This course is free and there are no other costs.  

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Time and duration

Start Date: 03 June 2025
Start Time: 2.00pm
Day: Tuesday
First Lesson Duration: 01:00
Total Weeks: 1

Location

Bolsover ACE Centre  
Castle Street  
Bolsover
S44 6PP  
   
01629 537912

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