Study guitar with
Nora Bite
Enroll in Sonora Guitar Intensive and study 1-on-1 with Nora Bite for 3 months.
Receive lessons, daily feedback on your playing, and a clear path to fretboard fluency.
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Nora Bite
Accomplished Jazz Guitarist
Nora Bite is a jazz guitarist, educator and composer from Latvia, based in London. She has been a guitarist for 20+ years, and has been a part of 100+ bands and projects in Latvia, the UK, Portugal, Italy, Boston (USA), Spain, Belgium, Egypt, Spain, Lithuania and Estonia, and has taught 200+ guitar students over many years in London, UK, Latvia and internationally over Skype/Facetime. She has been an active member of the London jazz community since 2010, running one of the best weekly jazz jams for 4 years, composing for and leading her modern jazz trio, working as a session musician as well as serving a global musician community on Instagram. One of the many artists Nora has had the opportunity to share the stage with includes the great, late Amy Winehouse.
Nora is always curious about exploring new styles of music. She is comfortable with many different guitar techniques and Musical styles including jazz standards (swing), bebop, fusion, modern jazz, Bossa nova, latin music, flamenco (in the beginning of her musical career), blues, funk, soul, pop, rock, classical guitar, finger style chord melody, African guitar, jazz comping in duos (combining walking bass lines with chords), playing with looper and bass guitar. Nora often plays jazz standard vocal and instrumental duos as accompanist, as well as trios and duos as a soloist.
Nora has played in most of the important jazz clubs in London, such as “Ronnie Scotts”, “Vortex”, “606”, “Charlie Wrights” and others together with various artists and as well as a leader of multiple jazz projects.
Before moving to London, back in Latvia, she was leading her modern jazz quartet, and playing in many other projects, including big bands, jazz bands, blues-rock, funk and pop bands, playing in restaurants as a flamenco and jazz solo fingerstyle guitarist, as well as being part of international jazz concert management organizations. She was also giving regular guitar workshops in ”Madona Guitar sessions”, that happens once a year in the Latvian town Madona.
Sonora Guitar Intensive
Made for intermediate guitar players, Sonora is a 3-month intensive program that helps you break through multi-year plateaus and find your creative freedom.
Cutting Edge Software
Absorb, polish, and retain core concepts through accelerated learning and language acquisition techniques.
LIVE Masterclasses
Learn and engage with with industry-leading musicians 5 days per week in our live classes.
Streamlined feedback
Chat with your mentor in real-time. You’ll also get detailed feedback when you share videos of your guitar playing.
A modern approach to study
Unlike private lessons, Sonora's Fellowship students get unlimited access to feedback so learning and progress can happen every day – not just once a week.
THE OLD WAY
Traditional weekly lessons
Students met with an instructor for just an hour, once a week. For the remainer of that week, students were more likely to practice bad habits and progress slowly.
THE MODERN WAY
Sonora's anytime framework
Students get unlimited access to a mentor, 7 days a week. Along with a custom daily practice plan, forward progress can happen rapidly and at any time.
A clear path to
fretboard fluency
Our curriculum helps you achieve a complete understanding of the foundations of music, regardless of your playing style.
Over 20 years experience
Developed by deeply experienced music educators, our comprehensive curriculum identifies the key skills required to advance your musicianship.
Successfully tested by thousands
Our curriculum is proven. Over a thousand Sonora students have successfully broken through their learning plateaus and unlocked fretboard fluency.
Years of study condensed into months
Our students make more progress in 3-6 months of intensive study in our program than most students make in several years.
Grow with our community
Sonora connects you with other intermediate guitar players pursuing creative fluency.
Our community is a great place to find practice buddies, share progress, get feedback, and cheer each other on — all with the support of the whole Sonora team.
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Join our industry leading guitar intensive program with Nora Bite guiding you every step of the way.
BY APPLICATION ONLY
Sonora Guitar Intensive
Included with the program:
- Unlimited access to Nora Bite
- 1-on-1 lessons w/ Nora Bite*
- Daily video feedback on your playing
- Custom practice plans
- Membership to our community
- Lifetime access to our core curriculum
- Lifetime access to our learning software
*Pricing depends on duration of study and lesson frequency, apply for a quote.
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