Nikki O'Neill

Nikki O'Neill is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, deeply influenced by soul music and Americana, and all about playing for the song. She was born in Los Angeles and is currently based in Chicago, but grew up in Stockholm, Sweden.

She's an active recording/performing artist, signed to Blackbird Record Label. Her latest album, World is Waiting, (2020) received positive reviews by American Songwriter, Americana Highways, and other Americana and blues media in the U.S and Europe. She was featured in the November 2019 issue of Guitar Player Magazine.

Nikki genuinely loves to teach and to make music a part of peoples lives. Students have described her teaching as encouraging; skilled and intuitive; breaking things down in a way that really works, and easy to understand from playing to theory.

Her guitar teaching experience includes private lessons (in person, online); group guitar classes at New School University in New York; international clinics; workshops with NAMM, and after-school programs. Some of her video lessons (like Led Zeppelin's The Rain Song) have reached 500,000+ YouTube views.

She's also the author of the instruction book, Women's Road to Rock Guitar (Alfred Music), and a contributing writer for Guitar Player and other musician magazines.

Nikki graduated from New School University, majoring in music performance, and majored in guitar at two full-time music programs in Stockholm (Kulturama, Sodra Latins musiklinje). She has studied privately with Adam Levy, Dustin Barber, and Vadim Zilbershtein.

She is endorsed by Seymour Duncan pickups.

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Reviews

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Audrey

02/07/22

Songwriting

Great methods to get you to look at things with different perspectives!! Thank you ma'am!! 😊

aditya2509

08/28/20

Best teacher!

My guitar journey in the beginning was very exciting, feeling the rush, listening to new music but it's never easy. Nikki O'Neill was one of the tutors whose lessons helped me out tremendously in the beginning and made me more confident. Her lessons help me cope with different styles of chords, expanding my triad vocabulary, getting started with soloing, etc. Waiting for more lessons!

Michael

05/05/20

Brilliant educator

Nikki’s videos were massively helpful in expanding my soul and jazz repertoire on the guitar. She shares her deep knowledge of the instrument in relaxed, easy to follow lessons.

Jerry

02/21/20

Tasty little channel

If you like soul. country and R&B all mixed together - this is the channel for you. Nikki's style is easy-going and friendly. Concepts are very useful and presented in short, easy to digest segments. You can learn a cool idea in a few minutes and put it to use right away.