Guitarmonk – Greater Noida
NS 68, 1st Cross Ave, Gulmohar Estate, Eta 1, Greater Noida, Rasoolpur Rai, Uttar Pradesh 201310, India
https://www.guitarmonk.com/
Guitarmonk – Greater Noida is not merely a music school or a retail showroom; it is a 360-degree “guitar ecosystem” nestled on the second floor of Logix City Centre mall, directly above the Noida-Greater Noida metro concourse. The moment the elevator doors open you are met by wood and warm light: a café-style reception counter faced in reclaimed pine, Edison bulbs hanging overhead, and a curved wall of vintage amplifiers that doubles as street art. To the left sits the Academy’s teaching block: eight acoustically treated rooms—each named after a rock icon (Hendrix, May, Gilmour, etc.)—whose sliding-glass doors have writable, staff-lined surfaces so last-minute chord charts or lyrics can be sketched on the fly.
Classes follow Guitarmonk’s in-house GMGS (Guitarmonk Graduate Skill-Map) syllabus: 5 levels, 160 topics, assessed every 8 weeks by an internal jury plus external examiners from Trinity Rock & Pop. What distinguishes Greater Noida is its live-band lab. Room M (for Mumbai, the brand’s birthplace) is a fully equipped basement studio in the mall’s parking lot—sound-proof hush panels, 32-input AH mixer, digital FOH for audiences of 150—so students can graduate from practice amp to stage without ever leaving the complex.
Walk back across the reception and the retail zone begins. Alongside signature Guitarmonk acoustic and electric series—Indian rosewood back & sides, Fishman Flex pre-amps—you’ll find PRS, Fender Player Plus, and Ibanez J-Custom exclusives kept in humidity-controlled glass “island cases” that can be rotated like lazy Susans. A touchscreen kiosk pulls up the SKU’s spec sheet, demo videos and in-store availability in three languages. Carry your chosen instrument to the Custom Bench corner, where on-staff luthiers will dress frets, install a bone nut or swap pickups while you sip Himalayan-Arabica coffee from the in-store café that shares its counter with a row of looper pedals—yes, you can test the guitar over a flat-white.
Membership at Greater Noida is album-based: three paid tracks a year—Beginner, Intermediate, Pro—each paired with a full-length downloadable EP of student recordings produced in the studio. Alumni perks include open-mic listings, quarterly masterclasses with celebrity guests (recently A.R. Rahman’s guitarist Keba Jeremiah), and access to a cloud archive that contains 13 years of transcribed solos in Guitar Pro format.
Timings: Tue-Sun 11 a.m.–8 p.m. (Mon closed for maintenance) Weekly rent-a-room jam passes are ₹500 for students, ₹700 for non-members. If guitars have accents, Guitarmonk Greater Noida speaks wood, wire, and coffee—influences both Delhi’s bustling grit and California laid-back polish.
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- Published: August 10, 2025
