Electric guitar is not just acoustic guitar turned up
The core skills still matter: timing, clean technique, fretboard knowledge and control. But electric guitar brings its own problems. Small noises become obvious, bends need to be in tune, vibrato needs control and lead playing has to sound musical rather than like a scale exercise.
My electric guitar lessons in Dublin are private and built around the kind of player you want to become, rather than a fixed list of licks everybody has to learn.
What we can work on
- Picking and fretting-hand coordination
- Muting unwanted string noise
- Bending and vibrato
- Rhythm guitar and tighter timing
- Lead guitar, phrasing and improvisation
- Connecting scale positions instead of being trapped in one box
- Technique that stays controlled as the music becomes more demanding
Lead guitar has to sound like music
Learning a scale shape is useful. Playing up and down it is not the finished job. We work on rhythm, phrasing, note choice and articulation so that the things you practise turn into actual playing.
If you are new to the instrument, the beginner guitar lessons Dublin page gives you a better picture of how we would build the basics first.
Technique without tension
Trying to play faster by simply trying harder usually creates more tension and less control. When technique needs work, I look at the movement itself and find out what is making the phrase difficult. The goal is cleaner, more efficient playing, not speed for its own sake.
The lesson follows your actual playing
If your rhythm is the weak point, we work on rhythm. If improvisation sounds repetitive, we deal with that. If the fretboard still feels like disconnected patterns, we connect it. That is the advantage of private guitar lessons in Dublin: the lesson does not have to pretend every guitarist has the same problem.
Electric guitar lessons in person
I teach face to face in Dublin 1 / North Wall and do not offer online lessons. If you are deciding between electric and acoustic, you can also read about my acoustic guitar lessons in Dublin.
For the broader teaching approach, see the main guitar lessons Dublin page or learn more about me as a guitar teacher in Dublin.