Hello, and welcome to my personal website.

I live in Vancouver, Canada, where I teach and perform the guitar.

In addition to providing online video guitar lessons, I also record original musical compositions on my mac based recording system.

If you would like to hear some samples of my playing and original pieces,  please check out the link.

Anyone interested in having me produce music for independent films, dvd, or websites, please feel free to contact me here:-

james (at) jamesdevon.com

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James Devon was born in England and started learning classical guitar at the age of 15. One year later, he was awarded a scholarship for musical education at a college in Lincolnshire where he studied with legendary classical guitarist Graham Wade*.

James continued his studies in musical theory, piano and guitar at Trinity College of Music in London. He taught guitar in British schools before emigrating to Canada. There he learned to play blues and rock on the electric guitar and incorporated techniques from classical guitar to create new sounds. His original style led him to win a provincial “Guitar Warz” competition sponsored by Fender guitars.

Aside from working as a private guitar instructor, James produced the first series of video guitar lessons including “Beginner’s Guitar” and “Improvising Rock Guitar”. He later created the first interactive online guitar lessons that were highlighted in the Jan. 2000 issue of Guitar Player magazine. These lessons branched out to become www.eyeguitar.com.

Lately, James has been working on a Mac based home-recording system to write and produce original music. He continues to perform, record and teach in the Vancouver area of British Columbia, Canada and is currently working on producing more instructional on-line musical material.

* Read more about Graham Wade at http://www.egta.co.uk/content/graham_wade1