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Private guitar lessonsGuitar Lessons in Athens, GA
Acoustic or electric, first chord or first gig. One-on-one guitar lessons built around the music you want to play — at Rabbit Hole Studios, at your home, or live on Zoom.
Taught by Nick Bradfield or Sean T. Conlon
Most people who quit guitar quit in the first few months, and almost always for the same reason: the lessons were about exercises, and the exercises were not music. Here the songs you care about are the curriculum. Technique gets taught because a song needs it, which is the only way it sticks.
Every lesson is private, so the pace is yours. If you already play, we find the gap — rhythm that drags, a fretboard you only know in one position, solos that all sound the same — and close it. If you are starting from nothing, you will be playing something recognisable sooner than you expect.
Songs first
Pick the songs. Chords, strumming, riffs and theory get taught through them, not instead of them.
One-on-one
Private lessons move at your speed and go where you need them — no group, no fixed syllabus to sit through.
Learn in a real studio
In-person lessons happen at Rabbit Hole Studios, so recording yourself is part of learning, not a someday.
At home or on Zoom
Lessons can come to your place within 50 miles of Athens, or run live over Zoom from wherever you practise.
What guitar lessons can cover
- Open chords, barre chords, and changing between them cleanly
- Strumming and fingerpicking patterns that actually groove
- Learning songs by ear and from tabs or charts
- The fretboard: scales and shapes you can use, not just memorise
- Lead playing, bends, and building a solo that says something
- Writing your own parts and progressions
At the studio, at home, or on Zoom
At Rabbit Hole Studios
One-on-one lessons in a working recording studio in Athens, with microphones and playback on hand.
1001 Winterville RdAthens, GA 30605
At your home
Lessons come to you anywhere within 50 miles of Athens — the practical choice for drums and piano, where the instrument stays put.
Within 50 miles of AthensLive on Zoom
The same private lesson from anywhere, on Zoom in its musician mode — full-range audio with the usual call filtering switched off, so held notes come through the way they were played.
How online lessons work →Frequently asked questions
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Acoustic or electric — which should I start on?
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I already play. Is this worth it?
Other lessons
Songwriting & Production
Write the song. Then record it, arrange it, and make it sound finished. Songwriting and production lessons taught inside a working recording studio in Athens — or on Zoom.
Singing Lessons
Sing with more control, more range, and a lot less fear. Private voice lessons that develop the voice you have — at Rabbit Hole Studios, at your home, or live on Zoom.
Piano Lessons
Play the songs you hear in your head. Private piano and keyboard lessons that build real skill — both hands, chords, rhythm, and reading — at the studio, at your home, or on Zoom.