About Me

Welcome to a New Way of Learning Guitar

Teaching Guitar to Adults Over 40+

Teaching you to play step by step, pain free and with joy!

I’m Dan Thorpe. I specialise in teaching classic fingerpicking, strumming, and acoustic songs to adult beginners…. Teaching you to play step by step, pain-free, and with joy!

I’ve taught a huge variety of students, ranging in skill from absolute beginners who have never played the guitar before, all the way to seasoned pros with 40 years of playing experience. I’d love to help you too here on my humble little guitar blog.

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Why Can I Help You?

I teach students how to improve faster and have more fun using the ‘5G Accelerators’ of guitar playing.
These are the FIVE specific things that will allow you to improve your technique, motivation, musicality, and songs, using a clear and concise plan to make your guitar journey more fun.
This blog and ALL my lessons are based around this concept. If you are over the age of 40 and love fingerstyle, strumming, and acoustic styles, you will love it here.

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What You’ll Discover

How to play beautiful fingerstyle songs, improve your strumming, and speed up your chord changes.

Fix your technique, break bad habits, and make daily progress on the guitar while having more fun.

Improve your sense of musicality even if you lack confidence or feel “too old to learn”. These clear and concise lessons will help you break the shackles in your playing!

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A Brief History of Guitar Domination

June 2000

Started playing guitar at age 15. Discovered music for the first time and got hooked on artists such as Nirvana, James Taylor, R.E.M…But I struggled to play guitar big time. My early struggles started me off on the path to helping others avoid the same mistakes I made.

November 2002

Joined my first band. After a few years of struggling, I was finally putting the pieces of the guitar-playing jigsaw together and started playing with a band. This made playing the guitar even more fun and led to many wonderful experiences.

October 2009

Taught my first guitar lesson. I was working as a CAD engineer and enjoyed it, but the guitar was my real passion. So I started teaching others, which led me to the path of where I am now.

August 2013

Left my job to become a full-time guitar tutor. I created this blog, got certified with the Registry of Guitar Tutors, and learned a crazy amount about teaching adult beginner guitarists in a super short space of time.

July 2020

Released my best-selling Fingerstyle 101 book, which has gone on to sell over 20,000 copies (so far) and has hundreds of 5-star ratings and reviews on Amazon.

Present

Consistently trying to re-invent the world of guitar tuition making lessons clearer, techniques easier, and guitar playing more enjoyable – especially for adult beginner and intermediate guitarists! 🙂

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