Electric Guitar Lessons

Electric Guitar Lessons Just for You

This is what we do for over 35 years.

Music Makers Calgary is the perfect place for young kids, teenagers, adults and seniors to take electrical guitar lessons. High qualified teachers ready to give you the best learning experience possible, respecting your own pace and ability.

All individual lessons are prepared to fit your needs, being that for deep theoretical understanding or just to learn how to play a specific music that you love.

Get in touch to learn more and schedule your first Electric guitar lesson.

Benefits of Playing Electric Guitar

Beyond the pleasure of it, playing Electric guitar is a lot more than just having a good time. Some studies across Canada and other countries suggest that playing the Electric guitar can help with:

• Discipline and patience
• Better coordination
• Sense of achievement
• Communicate your emotions
• Transform your moments with friends
• Educate your ear
• It is incredibly fun!

Famous Players

• Jimi Hendrix
• Eric Clapton
• Jimmy Page
• Keith Richards
• Jeff Beck
• B.B. King
• Chuck Berry
• Eddie Van Halen
• Duane Allman
• George Harrison
• Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Les Paul
• Slash
• And a lot more!

Construction

The Electric guitar design can vary substantially, specially the body shape, configuration of the bridge, neck and pickups.

It has some similarities with the acoustic version like 6 strings, neck and headstock, but usually it has a solid body and need pickups to amplify the sound.

The pickup’s magnetic field produce an Electric current by the strings vibration, which creates an electric current in the pickup winding and passes through the tone and volume controls to the output jack. Some guitars have piezo pickups, in addition to or instead of, magnetic pickups.

The main types of Electric guitar are:

• Solid Body
• Chambered Bodies
• Semi-acoustic
• Full hollow body
• Electric acoustic

History

In 1931, while jazz guitarists needed an amplified sound from their acoustic guitar to be able to play with big band formats, the Electric guitar was invented. Supported initially by Lonnie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Charlie Christian, T-Bone Walker and, of course, Les Paul, they were the first to use Electric guitars on record.

Capable of a multitude of sounds and styles, the Electric guitar became, during the 1950s and 1960s, the most important instrument in pop music. But was the blues and rock styles that the Electric guitars developed to the extreme, influencing many other genres of music and transforming the music industry forever.