Edina Balczo

Acoustic, United Kingdom

Edina Balczo is an award-winning UK-based guitarist, in 2019 she won the Lukas (Uk Latin) awards as the best jazz-folk act of the year with her guitar duo De Fuego.

Edina has been playing for over 24 years and did over 1000 gigs in her life. She played in several bands and as a solo guitarist, did European tours, and has been the resident guitarist of The Ritz London.

After putting out some lessons on her YouTube channel, The Spanish Guitar Hub (over 80k subscribers and 15 millions views), she realized she has passion and talent for teaching music.

In 2018 she became a certified guitar tutor by University of West London (distinction). She published so far 8 guitar courses with tens of thousands of students, her courses are available on Muse, Udemy, Amazon, Skillshare.

Her guitar courses (four of them also available as a printed book format):

Spanish guitar Strumming Techniques (2018)
Songs for Spanish and Classical Guitar (2020)
Play Solos in Spanish and Flamenco Guitar (2021)
Music Theory: Learn to Read Rhythm – From Beginners to Mastery (2021)
Learn Guitar Chords with Songs and Exercises: Major, Minor and Barre Chords (2022)
Learn Guitar Chords with Songs and Exercises: The 7th Chords (2023)
18 Christmas Songs for Classical, Acoustic and Fingerstyle Guitar (2023)
Learn to Improvise with exercises (2024)

Full-length album releases:

De Fuego – Bluebird (2012)
De Fuego – Davide (2015)
Edina Balczo – Songs for Spanish and Classical Guitar (2020)
De Fuego – Hyperfocus (2023)
Edina Balczo – 18 Christmas Songs for Classical, Acoustic and Fingerstyle Guitar (2023)

Why do I like Guitar Pro?

I love Guitar Pro, because it is so easy to work with it, I love that I can listen back to what I wrote down, and the sound really improved over the years.

I also many times practice with the speed trainer which is an amazing tool (you can set the song you are learning up on a way that it increases the speed after each round).

I write and arrange all the songs/exercises for my courses with Guitar Pro, and I recommend it to everybody that I come across with.

Title	Album	Artist	Type
A Forest	Seventeen Seconds	The Cure	Guitars, Bass & Backing Track
Roulette	Steal This Album	System of a Down	Guitars & Backing Track
Livin' on a Prayer	Slippery When Wet	Bon Jovi	Guitars, Bass & Backing Track
Ocarina of Time (from the Legend of Zelda)		Koji Kondo	Solo Guitar
Friday I'm in Love		The Cure	Guitar/Vocals