Alex Brooke

My name is Alex Brooke and I teach guitar in Aoyama in Tokyo Japan. I teach various styles including classical, rock, bossa nova and jazz. I also teach composition, music harmony, theory and site reading.

Profile: Graduated from London University Music Department (Composition, performance, conducting, music education and psychology). Played for over 20 years as a soloist and in bands and ensembles. Also proficient in recording and production technology including Pro Tools and Logic Pro.

Location: Aoyama Ichome, Tokyo, Japan

Contact: mail(at)alexbrooke(dot)com or use this CONTACT FORM

英語でギターレッスンしませんか？年齢やレベルは問いません。クラシック、アコスティック、ロックなどのスタイルを勉強することができます。ギターを練習しながら英語をついでに勉強できちゃいます。ベースも勉強することができます。

アレックスのプロフィール
出身：ロンドン
ロンドン大学音楽専攻（クラシックギター、作曲、指揮者、音楽教育、音楽の心理学）
スタイル：クラシック、ロック、ジャズ、ボサノバ

アレックスの一言

私は２０年ぐらいクラシックやロックギターを引いています。生徒それぞれの得意な能力を生かすようなレッスンをして行きます。モチベーションを見つけて皆 さんそれそれのギターの目標を達成するためにお手伝いします。一緒に英語と音楽を楽しく勉強しましょう。初心者や子供やグループも大歓迎です。

場所：レッスンの場所は青山一丁目

興味のある方はこちらまで連絡してください：CONTACT FORM

As part of my goal to get more of my music on this site, I will be doing some guitar tutorials with audio. I’ll start off easily with some scales and chord exercises. I’ll then progress onto some more advanced guitar techniques. I’d also like to put some original guitar compositions on this site including full tabs and musical scores.

For my first offering here is what I call possibly the happiest chord on the guitar. It’s pretty close to an E Maj 13th with a C# and F#. It’s a bar chord played on 11th fret. So try it out and feel all happy inside.

Brain Machine Workshop A Success

According to Karamoon, the Brain Machine workshop at the Tokyo Hacker Space was a success. Check out  some amazing pictures here. You can also see some pictures of Brain Machine workshop I went to at the make fair earlier this year here. The Tokyo Hacker Space run courses for anyone interested in tech, software, hardware and just about anything else they can think of. I’ll be going down there to check out what’s going on and perhaps make a video about it for Learn Japanese Pod.

Learn Japanese Pod

We’ve been getting back into the Learn Japanese Pod saddle after a long summer break. I was getting a few emails asking me what the hell was going on. Fear not, Waka sensei is back to teach you some new and useful Japanese phrases. We just put Fun Friday up and lesson #96 is almost ready to go up.

I’ve also installed moodle onto the Learn Japanese Pod server with a view to developing some Japanese language learning courses. Apparently it is quite a powerful system although I still need to study the documentation into how to use it. I started a thread on this topic for people to discuss and contribute to this project.

Tokyo Guitar Guild

The Tokyo Guitar Guild was a group I set up for guitarists in Tokyo to network, play together and teach each other a few tricks with their axes. The good news is I have managed to find a space in 青山一丁目 Aoyamaichoume where we could meet. If you are interested in coming, please send me an email @ mail(at)alexbrooke(dot)com or contact me here. The location is fantastic and I am thinking of using it on Saturdays.

I’m also thinking of doing some guitar tutorial videos. If you have any suggestions or requests please contact me.

Poster Competition

If you want to get your hands on a cool “Do it at home” poster from Japan Rail go to Japandra to find out more details. A big thanks to Sandra who appeared on last week’s Fun Friday.]

That’s all for now folks.