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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.
Want to play guitar properly instead of half-remembering three chords? SIRIUS takes care of the hard part first, which is finding a teacher who actually suits you. Every instructor on our platform has been through our own vetting, and we pair you based on your level, your goals and the hours you can realistically show up in New York. Whether you are starting from zero, booking for a ten-year-old, or picking the instrument back up after a decade away, the match works the same careful way. Your free trial lesson comes with a concrete session proposal, so you know who you would be learning with before you commit to anything.
Our teachers work across rock, blues, pop, country, metal, folk and fingerstyle, and they adapt to what you bring rather than running a fixed curriculum. The platform was built for music instruction, so the audio stays clean enough to hear the difference between a muted string and a fretted one, and everything runs in the browser with nothing to install. That means a lesson from a kitchen table in New York works just as well as one from a rehearsal space. Between sessions you keep access to the material your teacher assigns, so the week in between is never guesswork.
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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Across New York City, private in-person guitar lessons generally run somewhere between about $60 and $150 per hour, with Manhattan studios and established music schools at the upper end and independent teachers in Brooklyn and Queens usually lower. That is a market range for local teachers, not a SIRIUS rate. Because SIRIUS lessons happen online there is no studio overhead and no travel time priced into your week, you see the rate before you book, your trial lesson is free, and you are not tied into a long-term contract.
Most people can strum through a simple three-chord song within a few weeks, as long as they practice ten to fifteen minutes on most days. Clean chord changes and a barre chord you can rely on usually take a few months. After a year of steady weekly lessons, most students can work out new songs largely on their own. Short daily practice beats one long session on Sunday, and a teacher shortens the whole process by catching bad habits before they set.
Yes, you need an instrument at home, because the practice between lessons is where the real progress happens. A solid beginner acoustic or electric costs roughly $150 to $300 new, and the used market across the city is deep, especially in the Brooklyn shops. Whatever you buy, have a repair tech set it up properly; a good setup makes an inexpensive guitar far easier to play than a badly adjusted expensive one. Your teacher is glad to advise before you spend anything.
For almost every student, yes. Guitar suits video teaching well, because the camera shows both of your hands clearly, sometimes more clearly than a teacher sitting beside you, and you can record the lesson and revisit a tricky passage later. You also skip a subway ride across New York in each direction, which is usually what decides whether lessons survive a busy month. The lesson opens in your browser, so there is nothing to install and nothing to configure.
Start with whichever one makes you want to pick it up. Electric guitars have lighter strings and slimmer necks, so they are often physically easier at the beginning, and with headphones they stay quiet enough for an apartment building. Acoustics need no amp and no cables and are ready the moment you take them off the stand. The fundamentals, meaning chords, rhythm, picking technique and fretboard knowledge, transfer completely between the two, so nothing you learn on one is wasted on the other.
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New York does not have one guitar sound, it has a few dozen stacked on top of each other. Punk got its shape in Forest Hills, Queens, where the Ramones formed; a generation later The Strokes wrote their first songs in downtown Manhattan rehearsal rooms. Today a Brooklyn-based player like Mary Halvorson is rewriting what a jazz guitar is allowed to sound like.
Mercury Lounge on East Houston Street books new bands most nights of the week, Arlene's Grocery on Stanton Street keeps a working stage in the Lower East Side, and the back room at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg still puts unknown players in front of a real audience. Out in Red Hook, Jalopy Theatre runs roots music and its own school, and it organizes the Brooklyn Folk Festival, set for November 6 to 8 in 2026 at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights.
The city also gives you reasons to learn from your own kitchen table. Teacher density is not the problem here; reaching the teacher is. A studio in Midtown can sit forty minutes each way from Sunset Park, longer when the train runs local. Restaurant shifts, hospital rotations and MTA schedules do not respect a fixed Tuesday evening slot, and February slush turns hauling an acoustic across town into a project of its own. Studying over video removes the commute, which here is often the difference between practicing weekly and quitting by March. That is the practical argument for taking guitar lessons in New York on a screen rather than in a rented studio room.
You start with open chords, E minor, A, D, G and C, then spend real time on the changes between them, because clean switching is what makes a song sound like a song instead of a list of shapes. Strumming patterns come next, followed by the steady down-up motion of alternate picking. Barre chords arrive once your hand is ready, then fingerpicking, then the hammer-ons and pull-offs that move a line without a fresh pick attack on every note. Your teacher shows you how to read tab and where standard notation earns its keep. Rhythm and timing get worked on from week one, with a metronome as your least glamorous ally.
Both work well here, and the choice usually comes down to logistics. An acoustic is ready the moment you lift it off the stand and travels anywhere. An electric has lighter strings and a slimmer neck, which many hands find kinder at first, and through a modeling amp or headphones it stays genuinely quiet, which matters when a neighbor shares your wall. Lessons cover amp settings and gain staging, plus what reverb, delay, overdrive and compression actually do.
Practicing alone is easier when you know where it is headed, and the shops belong to that same scene. Rudy's Music on Broome Street in Soho has run a repair bench for decades and still handles refrets and neck resets, Main Drag Music on South 1st Street in Williamsburg handles setups, fretwork and pickup swaps, and Retrofret in Carroll Gardens keeps a showroom worth an afternoon. Learn at home during the week, then get your action lowered, sit in at an open stage, or take a folk festival workshop in November.
Children can begin around six or seven, once their hands fit a three-quarter size guitar, and short lessons suit them better than long ones. Teenagers usually turn up with a band or a specific song in mind, which is an excellent engine. Adults are a large share of our students across the boroughs: beginners at forty, returners who quit after college, and self-taught players who want the gaps filled in. Nobody here is behind schedule.
A free trial session costs you half an hour and tells you whether the teacher's approach suits you and whether the format works in your apartment. Tell us the songs already playing in your head and we will find the person who can get you to them. That is how guitar lessons in New York start with us, one unhurried half hour.
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