Welcome to Cowtown Guitars

Hi i'm Neil Cowmeadow, guitar teacher, repairer (luthier), writer, enthusiast and all-round good-egg.

Guitar Repair

You may not have ever played aproperly set up guitar. Factory setups are usually a mass-production compromise, so almost any factory-made guitar can be hugely improved in its playability and feel by being properly setup. Proper setting-up is the most cost-effective way to make your guitar play, sound, and feel like a much more expensive instrument.

Your old Guitar can be virtually resurrected in much the same way. Dropped your guitar? It might not be terminal. Even broken necks can be repaired as good as new without costing you a fortune.

Guitar and Bass Tuition

I played guitar for twenty years the hard way - you know - a squillion chord shapes and sweating every note. I learned the way that countless guitarist learned - from books that haven't evolved for decades. Ok, they showed me something - but they never gave me a system to work with, in which the instrument was consistent, open and fully integrated. I wanted a unified theory for guitarists. It wasn't out there, so i developed that system, and that's the way i teach. I aim to save you years of frustration and confusion. Don't waste your time making it hard for yourself!

I realised that i needed to play smarter not harder. By applying what i had learned about biomechanics and applied psychology, and more recently neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to guitar teaching, I aim to show you just how easy, simple and logical the guitar actually is.

You see, the guitar is easy to play - yet it is generally taught in a way that obscures it's simplicity. My stripped-down-to-the-bone approach allows beginners to progress quickly, intermediates to blossom, and experienced players to understand precisely what it is that they have been doing for years!

So, bring your guitar and an open mind - that's all you need to get inside the music, play it like it is in your head, and for it all to make perfect sense. Chords lose their mystery, soloing stops being hysterical, modes stop meandering and improvisation is a breeze.

Too good to be true? I didn't want it to be this easy, either; believe me, after twenty-plus years of frustration, it was a revelation to "get it" in a way that was transparent, simple, intelligent and quick. Pity it took me so long to see through the mystique and bullshit!

LET'S PLAY!

Lessons are conducted near Broseley, Shropshire, and are one-on-one. I aim to teach the music that you love, whilst giving you what seem like insider secrets that only the pros and serious session players know. Play like your guitar hero, chances are they are not superhumans with mutant hands and extraterrestrial powers - no, really.....

Tumbledown Cottage 23, Ironbridge Road Broseley Shropshire TF12 5AJ