Meet Your Teacher
Lesson time: (0min 40sec)
Meet Tommy Webb, your teacher for this course - he shares how he started playing at nine, his life as a session guitarist, and why listening across styles builds your ear.
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This lesson is part of the course Guitar Method: Rock & Pop
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Lesson transcript:
My Journey with Guitar
I started playing guitar when I was 9 and had a great teacher who would invite me up to play with him on stage.
The buzz I got from playing on stage as a kid is the reason I kept playing guitar and why I've pursued it as a career later on in life.
Key Advice for New Musicians
The biggest advice I'd give to new musicians is to take it slow and go at your own pace:
- Listen to Many Styles:
- Explore genres that you might not be drawn to.
- This practice helps to expand your ear.
- It builds your musicality by understanding and listening to different styles.
Being a Session Musician
As a session musician, I don't really have one style of music. Whatever the singer or band are playing, that's what I have to learn.
That's why this course is so great. It's taken us through six different styles to understand the key elements and apply them to our own playing.
About the instructor
Tommy Webb is a London-based guitarist who completed a BA(Hons) Degree in guitar at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, studying under Sandy Beales (One Direction, Wheatus) and Nicolas Meier (Jeff Beck). His own playing moves freely across rock, pop, indie, hip-hop, country and metal - the exact ground his guitar methods cover. Tommy has worked with a wide range of artists and bands across the country, including Jarki Monno and Indira May, sharing stages and sessions with guitarists Paul Murray (Jess Glynne, Zak Abel) and Adam Chetwood (Paolo Nutini, Mark Ronson), and drummers Alex Woodward (Black Honey), Luke Robinson and “Bambi Music” (N-Dubz, Lethal Bizzle, Wretch 32, Tinie Tempah). On stage, he has performed at the Jazz Cafe opening for soul singer Jocelyn Brown, plus venues and festivals including Ronnie Scott's, Troy Bar, The Watford Colosseum, Camden Assembly, Kensington Roof Gardens, Notting Hill Arts Club, Meraki Festival and Sundown Festival. On record and radio, Tommy has played live sessions for BBC Three Counties Introducing, Vibe FM and Pulse 88, with tracks featured on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2. He has recorded at studios including South Lanes Brighton, Hempstead Road and Titan Studios with producers such as Steph Carter (Gallows, Lyoness) and TMS / Froe Barnes (Lewis Capaldi, Dua Lipa). In his guitar methods, Tommy passes all of that working-musician know-how on to you - teaching the techniques, tones and feel behind real styles, from rock and pop to indie, hip-hop, country and metal, so you can play the music you actually love. read more