May 23, 2022
Shaun Baxter B.A (Hons). ILTHE. M.Mus (Dist).
Apart from being a player of international renown, Shaun Baxter is the UK’s most experienced and respected rock guitar teacher. He was a founder member of The Guitar Institute in London in 1986 (a partner of The London College of Music), where he taught every week for twenty years. He then went on to become Head of Guitar at Guitar-X in London before, in 2003, becoming an owner and the Academic Director of The Academy of Music and Sound (the UK’s biggest national provider of instrument-specific pop/rock tuition, with seven schools in both England and Scotland).
Shaun composed the World’s first Grade 8 Guitar syllabus for Trinity College; wrote the UK’s National Operational Standards (NOS) for music performance; has, as a music journalist, written for magazines like The Guitar Magazine, Guitar World & Metal Hammer, and was a monthly columnist for Guitar Techniques magazine from 1994 to 2021.
Through his teaching, Shaun helped pioneer popular music education in the UK and taught many guitar players and teachers who have gone on to find fame in the music industry.
In 1993, Shaun recorded a ground-breaking album entitled Jazz Metal. He has also toured the World and recorded with artists such as Princess, John Sloman (Gary Moore/Uriah Heep) and Carl Palmer of Emerson Lake and Palmer, and was ranked in the Top 50 of the World's most Influential guitarists by Guitarist Magazine.
For details
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm8IWQHarZo1wYklEuuHorQ
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