Home of Swindon Music Teacher, Session Singer and Musician – Chris O’Leary
Hi, I’m Chris O’Leary, a professional Music Teacher, Singer and Musician with over 20 years experience, based in Swindon, UK.
Nowadays, you can often see me on stage with The Chip Shop Boys, however, in the past, I have performed as a session musician with several major record label artists including:
- Carl Barat (The Libertines)
- Shane Filan (Westlife)
- Ki Fitzgerald (Busted)
- Chesney Hawkes
- Gavin Holligan (Stevie Wonder)
- Sonna Rele (Disney)
- Christopher King (Irelands Got Talent)
- The Treatment
One of my passions other than performing is passing on the knowledge that I have accumulated from being on tour, at music university and being a working professional musician. Teaching gives me this opportunity to use my experience to help others achieve. If you want to find out more please contact me here.
Lessons
I offer private one-to-one music lessons at my studio in Swindon, Wiltshire or via video chat from the comfort of your own home. Each session is tailored towards your ability and what you want to learn as a student of the arts, be it, learning your favourite song or taking your grades. I teach all levels and genres and have had hundreds of happy students that can testify for this.
I teach the following:
- Guitar (Electric, Acoustic, Dobro and Classical)
- Bass
- Drums
- Piano and Keyboard
- Singing
- Banjo
- Mandolin
- Fiddle
- Ukulele
- Music Theory
- Recording and Production (Pro Tools, Cubase, Ableton, Waves etc)
Do you want a trial FIRST LESSON FREE?
Click this link for more information about music lessons in Swindon.
Recording
Are you a songwriter seeking that magical part that will transform your song?
A producer who knows exactly what they want, and needs a musician who can deliver top-shelf tracks the same day?
An artist and wants to collaborate with an experienced professional on the arrangement of your song?
Whatever your specific need is, I can help make this run smoothly!
You can book me for acoustic and electric recording sessions as a studio singer and musician on multiple instruments, either in person or via the internet as an Online Session Musician.
Instruments are recorded with multiple mics on to separate tracks, so you will have maximum flexibility when it comes to mixing time.
My studio recording gear includes:
- Apogee interface
- Neumann U87 microphone
- Shure SM57 microphones
- Neve preamps
- Vintage Outboard Compressors
- A vast collection of the best plugins
- A tracking room with great sounding acoustics.
Are you located near Swindon? Come by my studio and work in-person with me on your music.
Not located locally? Use Video Chat to work with me in real-time as I lay down tracks to your music, working together to achieve the exact sound you are looking for. We can work via Skype, FaceTime, Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp.
Videos
Guitar Solo For Sweet Child O’ Mine
Events
Click on the word events above for more info on where to watch me play live with either #LADSLADSLADS, CHIP SHOP BOYS, O’FIDDLEARY, SOLO, TRAVELLING HANDS or many other great bands and musicians.
Audio
Here is a song that I wrote and recorded.
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About
Testimonials:
“Chris…YOU ARE FRIGGING AMAZING AND THAT IS THE PERFECT GUITAR PART THAT I ALWAYS HEARD IN MY HEAD WHEN I WROTE THE SONG 25 YEARS AGO. WOW!!!”
– Jamie Wysell
“Wow! I’ve never worked with a singer and musician who got it right the first time before and this was perfect! I have spent many years working on songs full of emotion that other musicians have simply not understood. Chris immediately knew what was required from the lyric and rough track and provided more than I could ever have imagined with a full band with a wide range of guitars, drums and keyboards, delivering a perfect piece of music for me. Hire him and you can rest assured that you have a most accomplished man of music working on your songs.”
-Luke Turners
“Chris worked on 3 songs I recently wrote. His guitar-playing was top-level professional and his producing and engineering skills were excellent. He’s ‘the best’.”
-Harry Harding
“Chris was a pleasure to work with, delivered my tracks quickly, and his production style is extremely musical. Very Happy Customer!”
-K Gossell
Equipment:
Guitars:
- 1991 Taylor 918 Handmade Acoustic
- Tanglewood Super Folk Electro-Acoustic
- Fender Stratocaster Jimmy Vaughan Signature
- 2017 Gibson Les Paul R8
- 2013 Gibson ES335
- Fender Telecaster Baja
- Simon and Patrick 12-string
- Beautiful Classical Guitar
- 1974 American P-Bass
- 2002 Warwick 5 String Bass
Amps:
- 1964 Fender Bassman Blackface 2×12
- Marshall Anniversary 6101 Ltd edition 1×12
- Fender Twin Reverb 2×12
- Mesa Lonestar Special 2×12
- JCM 800 Head
Pedals and Effects:
- GigRig Pro midi 14 true-bypass switcher
- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus
- Eventide H9 Max
- Timmy overdrive
- Tubescreamer
- Keeley Compressor
- MXR Dyna Comp
- MXR Carbon Copy Delay
- Boss OS-2 overdrive
- EP boost
- Jim Dunlop Cry Baby Wah – Jimmy Hendrix Signature
- Electro Harmonix Memory Boy Delay with Tap Tempo
- Boss hyper fuzz fz-2
- Bryan May treble booster
- Ibanez CS-9 Chorus
- T-Rex Delay
- Boss TR-2 Tremolo, modified