Guitar Study Week
Our Guitar Study Week is an intensive and enjoyable guitar-school for steel-string acoustic guitarists, led by three fantastic tutors. You'll have the opportunity to spend a day with each of the tutors in workshops aiming to develop your technique, skills and repertoire - and provide for an enjoyable course of guitar playing in the manor.
The course will help you to develop your skills and confidence, with options to explore finger style, flat-picking, alternative and open tunings, arranging tunes and song accompaniment, chord vocabulary, and useful theory too. Whole group, smaller group and one-to-one teaching, to leave you enthused and inspired! There will be down-time too, for you to practise, jam, socialise and spend quality time with your instrument.
The tutor team bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience embracing a variety of styles and the programme for the week will be subject to change, tailored to the experience and needs of the group.
Who is it for?
This course is aimed at acoustic guitarists (steel-strung) of an intermediate level and above. It’s not suitable for beginners.
As a guide, to get the most from the course you’ll need a grasp of the following topics:
All common open major and minor chords
Familiarity with one or two moveable barre chord shapes
Some basic fingerpicking ability
Steady, even strumming rhythm in 4/4 time
Beyond this, enthusiasm is much more important than skill level; we only ask that you join in to the best of your ability. This week is all about helping you develop your playing, whatever your current level of ability, and sending you away with the inspiration and tools to continue to improve.
The Team
Sheffield-based Sam Carter is a BBC Folk Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist. His vivid contemporary songwriting draws on the traditions of English and American folksong, with distinctively English acoustic fingerstyle guitar playing at the heart of his sound.
Sam is currently touring Sam Carter Sings Nic Jones, a celebration of the music of the legendary English folk singer. Recorded live at Celtic Connections and released as an album in June 2026, the record reached No. 8 in the Official UK Folk Album Chart. Sam has released six albums under his own name and two with BBC Folk Award-nominated folk-rock band False Lights. His music has featured on BBC Radio 2, 3, 4 and 6 Music, and he has appeared on Later… with Jools Holland. He has performed at Cambridge Folk Festival, Glastonbury, the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall, as well as touring internationally in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
With two more tutors TBA very soon!