Guitar Lessons
Accessible, versatile, and rewarding - guitar suits children who want a hands-on path into music.
Guitar is one of the most accessible instruments for young learners - quick to start producing satisfying sounds and capable of spanning classical, folk, blues, pop, and beyond. CogniMusica offers acoustic guitar lessons across Scotland (in our Dundee and Bo'ness studios, in students' homes, or online) for children aged four and above.
What Your Child Will Learn
Our guitar lessons build solid technique while keeping things genuinely fun. Students learn chords, picking and strumming patterns, music reading, and a wide variety of songs across styles. Older students who want to specialise in classical guitar are equally well supported.
- Proper posture, hand position, and tuning
- Open chords, barre chords, and chord progressions
- Strumming patterns and fingerstyle picking
- Reading tablature, chord charts, and standard notation
- Repertoire from classical pieces to contemporary pop and folk
- ABRSM and Rockschool exam preparation available
The Cognitive Benefits
Guitar develops bilateral hand coordination, pattern recognition, and working memory. The visual-spatial nature of the fretboard supports systematic thinking, while learning songs sharpens auditory memory. We weave cognitive-science insights into our teaching to make these benefits explicit and to support children who learn differently.
How Sessions Work
Guitar lessons take place in our Dundee studio, our Bo'ness studio, in your home, or online. Child-sized acoustic guitars are recommended for younger learners and can be discussed in your first session. Sessions are 40 minutes (£35 in-studio or online, £40 at home) for children aged four and above, or 60 minutes (£40 in-studio or online, £45 at home) for ages eight and above.
PVG Checked
Every tutor is PVG checked through Disclosure Scotland.
ABRSM Curriculum
Tuition aligned with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
Cognitive Science
Informed by ongoing PhD research at the University of Dundee.
Our guitar tutor Aleksander Skop is an active performer across blues, rock, and classical styles, with formal training from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Musical School and the Piotr Smoleń Guitar School in Poland.
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