Where can i learn the skills needed to become a guitar tech?
May 3rd, 2010 | 
Author: I live in south Wales and i need to find somewhere to learn the skills on becoming a guitar tech. Does anyone know any good luthiers or universitys in south Wales that teach courses? Once i’ve learnt, how can i get working for bands? and how can i help sell merchandise or design for bands? I live in a small town and it is hard to find helpful sources. I would love you all forever if you could help me out,as becoming a guitar tech would be my ultimate job!
Thanks!
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As I am in the USA, I don’t know too much about south Wales, other than you should be able to hit the local music scene and ask the artists and musicians you see who they would recommend for such services… its pretty easy to go to a few shows of artists doing the type of music you want to work alongside and just find out who the best in the business is, then try to hire them for a few hours to show you some pointers and give you some direction on ‘how’ to learn. you can even offer to help them out as an assistant volunteer to get some experience.
I’m not so sure it is the ‘ultimate’ job, but one of my good friends has succeeded at that already and we are building a new resource website that can really be helpful to you. It hasn’t launched with any of the new articles yet that will include things like ‘ the proper way to wind cables’, ‘how to change strings properly and how often should(i.e. every 8 songs)’ as well as much more about midi routing and redundant racks. We have tons of pictures of celebrity rigs that will be detailed and explained (billy corgan, sheryl crow, rammstein, the cult, kiss, and more).
so hopefully our site will be a good resource for you once we add the new content. for now you can see some pictures of my buddy’s previous clients. normally i wouldn’t say ‘our site our site’ but I think it will help you out.