About

• Guitarist with 20+ years’ experience playing for community & semi-pro musical theatre
• Based near Windsor, active around the western M25 (St Albans round to Dorking) and M40/M4/M3 corridors (High Wycombe, Reading, Bracknell, Woking, Guildford etc.)
• Occasional doubler on bass, woodwind (clarinet, tenor/alto sax, flute) or keys
• Also guitar / bass and backing vocals in function/cover bands

Welcome to my blog, specifically about playing guitar for musical theatre.

Over the years, I’ve noticed that the guitar parts often need some thinking and creativity to play them successfully. The guitar community doesn’t often discuss musical theatre or reading sessions generally (the exception to this was the wonderful long-running column by LA session legend Tommy Tedesco that ran in the US Guitar Player magazine for many years).

So, this blog is a place to put some of these things right, spread the word about the particular disciplines of playing guitar in musical theatre, and share some of my insights into how to actually perform some of the guitar parts I’ve come across…