Air Guitar Holidays: sun, sand and... your guitar

Rock out on the beach this spring

If you fancy getting away from it all, but don't want to leave your beloved guitar behind, take a look at Air Guitar Holidays, which has just launched its first week-long music holiday in Sitges, Spain.

Based in a beautiful villa with a swimming pool, tennis court and just 200 metres from the beach, the course offers both one-on-one tuition and group workshops, and is ideal for all ages and abilities.

Better still, we've sorted a discount deal - 25 percent off a week's holiday from 28 April-4 May - saving £226 on normal price of £875 (you pay £649).

Places are limited and discount is for this date only. To find out more, visit Air Guitar Holidays.

Alex Lifeson's Rush-style rhythm

[From bar 1] Make sure you really pay attention to the phrasing of the oddly metered bars. For 7/4 you can hear it being split into 4 and 3. Playing cleanly is the name of the game here.

[From bar 8] Be careful here - you want to get the syncopated phrases in time throughout. The repeated double-stop phrase in bars 12 and 19 gives a Lydian sound due to the E (#4 interval) over the Bb chord.

[Bars 35 and 37] This phrase has quite a wide stretch. It's just a D minor pentatonic phrase, but by dipping into two diferent shapes (shapes 1 and 2), it sounds diferent to a lot of other pentatonic phrases you're likely to hear in blues and rock.