Chris Hall Guitar
Chris Hall on stage with a Stratocaster during a live performance

Guitar tuition · Raskelf & Online

Twenty-five years on six strings.From Abbey Road to your front room.
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Close-up of a hand on the fretboard of an acoustic guitar in warm lamp light

The story so far

Twenty-five years ago I picked up a guitar and never quite put it down.

I trained at BIMM Brighton in partnership with the University of Sussex, then spent the next decade on the road and gaining experience recording in professional studios from Abbey Road to NRG in North Hollywood. I contributed to a UK Top 10 album and performed everywhere from Reading & Leeds to South by Southwest, Austin Texas.

Now I teach. Same instrument, different stage. Whether you're seven years in or seven minutes in, the goal is the same: to make playing feel like the most natural thing in the world.

25+
Years playing
15+
In the industry
9
UK chart peak
A career in chapters
Chris Hall with a Taylor acoustic in warm directional light

2011–2014 — Brighton

BIMM

Music had hold on me from secondary school onwards. After years immersed in guitar, I left Yorkshire to train at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music in partnership with the University of Sussex, where a higher technical foundation was laid.

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Fickle Friends live at a major festival, BBC Radio 1 stage, large crowd

2016 onwards — On the road

Touring years

UK headlines, festivals across Europe, opening for The Kooks. SXSW, Reading & Leeds, BBC Radio 1 in heavy rotation. Several of those years were spent touring with indie-pop band Fickle Friends.

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Studio recording session with a hollow-body guitar at the microphone

March 2018 — UK Top 10

On record

Recorded in world-renowned studios from Abbey Road in London to NRG Studios in Los Angeles. Contributed to a UK Top 10 album that peaked at No. 9, working with major-label producers such as Mike Crossey (1975, Ben Howard, Twenty One Pilots) and Charlie Hugall (Florence and the Machine, Ed Sheeran, Lucy Rose).

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Chris Hall's home studio — dual monitors with the Chris Hall Guitar site, Stratocaster, studio monitors and plants

Now — Raskelf & online

Teaching

Back in North Yorkshire, where it all began. Real-world experience, taught one-to-one from my Raskelf studio, or online, anywhere in the world. Indie, pop, rock, alternative. Whatever you want to learn, however far you want to go.

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Everystudentisdifferent.Everylessonshouldbetoo.Myjobistomeetyouwhereyouare,andtakeyousomewherenew.

Chris Hall

What we'll work on

Built around you.

Close-up of a hand on the fretboard of an acoustic guitar

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First chord to first gig

If you've never picked one up, we'll start at the very beginning: chords, rhythm, the songs you actually want to play. Exams optional, we go at your pace.

Stack of music theory books on a workstation

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Technique & theory

Scales, modes, voicings, fingerstyle, hybrid picking. We'll demystify the bits that look intimidating on paper.

Tracking bass in the home studio with pedalboard and monitors

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Studio & stage

Mic'ing up, recording at home, playing to clicks, in-ears, stage craft. The professional toolkit, taught by someone who's used it.

Open music theory book showing pentatonic scale charts, hand turning the page

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Songwriting & arrangement

Turning ideas into songs. Structure, hooks, arrangement choices that make a track land, drawn from a decade of writing for a working band.

Chris Hall with a Taylor acoustic in warm directional light

Ready when you are

Begin.

Drop me a line. We'll talk about where you are, where you want to go, and book your first lesson.

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