Music Lessons on the Guitar ::: Brian Wride - Uxbridge, Ontario

I started playing guitar in 1977, when a generous neighbour gave me an old electric guitar after they upgraded to a better instrument. I took lessons for several years and enjoyed playing in a "garage band".

When I went to university, I discovered that a number of my friends also played and we spent many evenings jamming and learning from each other. While at university, I was also able to take a music history course.

After university, I decided that it was time to fill in some gaps in my knowledge of musical theory, so, indepentantly, I studied theory using the Royal Conservatory curriculum.

Since moving to Uxbridge, I have been quite involved in the music program at Uxbridge Baptist Church, playing regularly in the worship band for quite a while, and continuing to help out whenever I can. I have also spent some time learning to play the mandolin and briefly was able to start into the fiddle - until children arrived on the scene.

Most recently, I have developed a taste for fingerstyle ragtime guitar.

I started teaching music in 2003 after three people approached me in the same week to see if I would. Teaching guitar has since become one of the great joys of my life.