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Der Preis für eine Unterrichtseinheit beginnt bei 27€ und hängt von dem ausgewählten Paket ab.
We match you with a guitar teacher who fits your goals and the music you want to play, so you can start learning online with no waiting list. Right after you sign up you receive a no-obligation trial-lesson slot via WhatsApp.
After your free trial lesson you agree on goals, playing level and availability with your teacher, and your regular guitar lessons start right away.
Book your guitar lessons online whenever it suits you. The SIRIUS Workspace gives you unlimited access to exercises, chord sheets and recordings of your own sessions, so practice at home always has a clear direction.
Finding the right instructor should not depend on which side of the freeway you live on. SIRIUS pairs each student in Houston with a teacher from a vetted roster, weighing your current level, the styles you actually listen to and the hours you are genuinely free. Beginners, returners, kids and adults all begin the same way, with one free lesson and no obligation attached. Tell us what you want to be able to play and we will come back with a session proposal and a teacher who can get you there.
Our lessons run on technology built for music rather than meetings, so the audio holds up when you play loud and nothing has to be installed first. That means a student in Houston can take a lesson at the kitchen table, in a bedroom or from a hotel room on a work trip without losing quality. Your teacher sees your hands, hears your tone and fixes things in the moment. Progress comes from the weekly rhythm, and this format is simply the easiest one to keep.
SIRIUS gives you one-to-one guitar lessons shaped around what you actually want to play, and everything from finding your teacher to payment runs through a single platform. Adding a lesson before a gig or moving a slot when the week gets busy takes a few clicks in the booking tool.
Learn the fundamentals of rhythm, chord theory and the fretboard, then apply them to the music you like, from rock and blues to pop, country, metal or fingerstyle. Acoustic or electric, your lessons always meet you at your level.
Alongside your lessons you get access to a digital Workspace built to make practice more efficient. In the SIRIUS Cloud you find the tabs, chord charts and targeted exercises your teacher assigns, all in one place. Lessons can be summarized automatically, and recordings let you go back to the moment a riff finally clicked.
You can also join monthly group sessions to play alongside other students, swap songs and pick up feedback, so you benefit from one-to-one coaching and from a community of players at the same time.
More hours = a better price per hour. Every plan: 45-min one-on-one lessons with vetted teachers.
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Many music students all over the world already trust SIRIUS.
“I've always played the same guitar chords and got much further into songwriting thanks to guitar lessons with SIRIUS”
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Louisa
guitar student
“Lisa always had to walk alone to her guitar teacher. Online guitar lessons are much more convenient.. ”
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Doro
Mother of a guitar student
“I finally really learned to play metal guitar with Robert. Power chords are just nice:)”
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steve
guitar student
“Learning guitar online quickly became boring without a teacher. Guitar lessons are super fun with Sirius.. ”
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Singing student
“I first had guitar lessons and have now started electric guitar lessons. It's great that you can easily switch... ”
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Around Houston, private guitar teachers typically charge somewhere between $40 and $90 an hour, with shorter 30-minute slots for younger students landing nearer $25 to $45. Those are general market figures for the metro area rather than SIRIUS prices, and they move with a teacher's experience and where in town they work. With SIRIUS you see your own rate before you book anything, the first lesson is free, and nothing ties you into a year-long contract.
Most beginners get through a recognizable three-chord song within four to six weeks, and 15 focused minutes a day beats one long session every Sunday. Clean chord changes usually take a couple of months, and barre chords are the wall nearly everyone hits somewhere around month three. Push past that and the fretboard starts to feel like one instrument instead of a grid of positions. A teacher mainly saves you from the detours that make people quit.
You need an instrument to practice on between lessons, so yes, owning one is part of starting. SIRIUS does not supply or rent instruments, but a solid beginner acoustic or electric costs well under $200 new, and Houston shops such as Rockin' Robin on South Shepherd or Fuller's Guitar on the North Loop sell used ones and will set them up so they play properly. A cheap guitar with a good setup beats an expensive one with high action every time. Bring whatever you have to the trial lesson and your teacher will tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping.
For one-to-one guitar instruction, yes. Your teacher watches your fretting and picking hands on camera, hears your tone directly and corrects posture, timing and technique as they happen, which is most of what a guitar lesson consists of. What you gain in Houston is the hour you would otherwise spend on I-10 or the Loop, plus the freedom to book around hospital shifts or an unpredictable week. Students from the Heights to Clear Lake learn this way, and the trial lesson costs nothing if you want to test it yourself.
Start with whichever one plays the music that made you want to learn, because motivation matters more here than tradition. Electric strings are lighter and kinder to new fingertips, and an unplugged electric is quiet enough for an apartment or a late-night practice session. An acoustic needs nothing but itself and builds finger strength faster, though it is less forgiving early on. The technique underneath is largely the same, so switching later is not starting over, and your teacher can help you decide at the trial lesson.
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Few American cities hold as many musical accents at once as Houston. Tejano guitar lines, Gulf Coast zydeco, a deep gospel circuit, screwed-and-chopped rap and the low, greasy boogie that ZZ Top began assembling here in 1969 all belong to the same town. Billy Gibbons grew up here and led the Moving Sidewalks before that band became something else. Pick up a guitar here and you inherit all of it.
The obstacle here is rarely motivation. It is the map. Houston covers roughly 640 square miles inside the city limits, so a teacher who looks close on paper can be a 50-minute crawl down the 610 Loop in the one hour you were free. Add August humidity, hurricane-season downpours that cancel a Tuesday without warning, and the shift patterns of the Texas Medical Center and the Ship Channel, and a fixed weekly appointment across town stops being realistic. Learning online changes that arithmetic: the lesson happens wherever your guitar already sits, in Montrose, Alief or Kingwood.
None of which means skipping the local scene. McGonigel's Mucky Duck on Norfolk Street runs live music most nights and hosts a Monday open mic with no cover, about as low-stakes a first stage as it gets. Rockin' Robin Guitars & Music on South Shepherd has sold and repaired instruments since 1972 and still opens six days a week, and Fuller's Guitar on the North Loop keeps in-house luthiers for setups.
Lessons begin with what makes songs playable: open chords, and more to the point, moving between them without the music stopping. Clean changes separate a first week from a first song. Then strumming patterns you feel rather than count, alternate picking that keeps the right hand even as tempos rise, and barre chords, which everyone finds miserable for a while and then does not. Hammer-ons and pull-offs give your lines the slur blues and rock phrasing lean on; fingerpicking opens the quieter side. You will also settle tabs versus notation - tabs put riffs under your fingers fast, notation carries the rhythm and duration tabs omit. Underneath sits timing: a metronome, subdivisions, and playing slower than you want to.
Both get taught, and neither is the correct beginner instrument. An acoustic is honest - it rewards clean fretting and asks more of new fingertips. An electric is gentler on the hands and nearly silent unplugged, a real argument in an apartment. Plug in and the amp joins your technique: gain structure, how a clean channel answers your pick attack, what changes when you turn it up. Effects follow - reverb and delay for space, overdrive for grit, compression to steady a rhythm part.
The practical case for guitar lessons in Houston with SIRIUS comes down to five things:
Once you have a handful of songs, Houston gives you somewhere to put them. The Continental Club on Main Street in Midtown books roots, rockabilly and soul acts through the fall - a Los Skarnales homecoming in August, Carolyn Wonderland in September. White Oak Music Hall on North Main runs several stages and books touring bands year-round, and Rudyard's has been a live-music bar on Waugh Drive in Montrose for decades. Houston Bluesfest returns for a fourth year on November 14, 2026 at East River 9. Most students settle into the same rhythm: the repetitive work happens at home with a teacher watching, the reward happens in a room with other people in it.
Complete beginners are a large share, and often the easiest to teach - no habits to undo. Returners are the other big group: the guitar in the closet since college, the person who quit at barre chords in 1998. Kids can begin around six or seven on a properly sized instrument, teenagers arrive with one song and no patience, and players in their sixties do fine at a pace that respects their hands.
The free trial session is mostly a conversation with a guitar in it: where you are now, what you want to play, whether you own an instrument yet. Your teacher then builds a plan you can keep up between weeks. Houston has never lacked people willing to play in public - book the trial and find out what your hands can do.
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