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Ben Parker - Guitar & Ukulele Tutor

Guitar & ukulele tutoring in Brisbane for anyone 11yrs & over. Visit www.benparkerguitar.com.au

If you have been thinking you'd like to learn how to play the guitar, you already play and are wanting to progress further or you have a child who has shown an interest in music then I'm confident that I can help.

28/06/2026

After some Guitar Lessons? I currently have a couple of spots available for Term 3. Check out my information pack (link in the comments).

27/02/2024

Guitar & Ukulele Lessons

I'm your local guitar (& ukulele) tutor based Norman Park and I'm recruiting a few new students.

For rates & lesson info, please head over to www.benparkerguitar.com.au and view my Information Pack.

**Instruments taught**
Electric Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Ukulele - Soprano/Concert/Tenor & Baritone

**Age Range**
Adults
Youths
Children (11yrs or over)

**Skill Levels taught**
Advanced players
Intermediate
Intermediate but rusty
Beginner (have played before)
Beginner (how do I hold a guitar?)

**Styles taught**
Rock (classic to modern), blues, folk, jazz, funk, pop, some classical & many more genres and subgenres.

**Experience/Credentials**
30+ years as a musician
13 yrs experience tutoring
Loads of student reviews
Bachelor of Music (Jazz Guitar & Jazz Arranging)
Diploma in Audio Engineering & Music Production
Blue Card

For rates & lesson info, please head over to www.benparkerguitar.com.au and view my Information Pack.

27/10/2023

October 2023 vs Jan 2021 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

05/08/2023

Kid friendly gigs are pretty good 🤘. Our faces are being gently melted without the noise induced hearing loss.

27/06/2023

Time for new tubes. This little Blues Jr has been running for 5 days a week for a couple of years. Replaced with nothing exotic, just a matched pair of trusty JJ El84s.

04/06/2023

Hey Brisbane friends. As you know there's a lot of homelessness at the moment, with families living in tents. You only need to go for a walk along the river and look under the Go Between bridge and alongside Bicentennial Bikeway to see. It's pretty raw to see it, but it's easy to pretend it's not happening. It doesn't need to be like this, but it is.

There's a page and dropoff location called East Brisbane Free Shop - Mutual Aid It's accessed frequently by people in need. If you have anything like tents, sleeping bags, winter clothing, camping equipment, camping mattresses, yoga mats, toiletries, food, you can drop it off at 27 Kennedy Tce, East Brisbane. I'm sure it'll get put to good use.

There are also community pantries in many areas that need regular topups of food, sanitary items, toiletries etc. You can usually find out where by asking on your local community Facebook groups. We have a community pantry in Norman Park, outside Faithworks on the corner of Bennet's Road and McIlwraith Ave.

05/04/2023

ALL DONE! Telecaster series/parallel toggle switch for middle pick-up selector position all finished.

It works like so:

When the toggle is in the upward position (as pictured), it operates like a standard tele (both pickups wired in parallel). This means a fairly even output in all pickup selector positions.

The new feature: When toggle is in the downward position, both pickups are wired in series. This produces a much hotter output (I guess it's the sum of both pickups?). As intended, it only works while the selector is in the middle position. Bridge and neck positions are unaffected.

I thought about using a 4-way selector like everyone else, but it seems odd to have one pickup position that much hotter than the rest.

It's great to have one more tone option available on a tele!

The bridge pick-up is out of an American standard tele. The neck pickup is stock 90s Japanese.

Video to come (hopefully).

Pics in reverse order.

04/04/2023

They look so vulnerable without their pickguard.

My volume pot bit the dust and the tone cap had a broken leg. I'm replacing all of the electronics, bar the pickups. Plus installing a series/parallel switch (using a DPDT toggle rather than a 4 way selector). Also a PIO cap to see what the fuss is about.

23/12/2022

Merry Xmas Brisbane! If you or anyone you know (aged 11 or over) is looking for electric guitar, acoustic guitar or ukulele lessons, please get in touch:

The best way to reach out is to visit www.benparkerguitar.com.au and click "Enquire Now" and tell me a bit about yourself.

If you're at a bit of a loose end for an Christmas gift, I also have a limited amount of vouchers available.

Lessons are based in my home studio in Norman Park, but can also given over Zoom to anyone far away (even internationally).

Happy holidays (and sparing a thought for those who don't get time off and keep the wheels turning).

I hope you enjoyed my tacky promo video (which hopefully has less typos than my last post). 🤣.

Address

39 Frank Street, Norman Park
Brisbane, QLD
4170

Telephone

+61476768954

Website

http://www.benparkerguitar.com.au/

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