I teach one-to-one guitar lessons. Some of my students I teach online, but most visit me for a face-to-face lesson at my home. I graduated from my studies in Contemporary Music and Guitar in Coventry in 2006 and have taught and/or played live or on radio in the UK, France, Croatia, Nepal, India, USA, and Australia. I am DBS certified, and have spent hundreds of hours teaching kids in front of thei
r parents, so please don't feel that you're intruding if you'd like to sit in on your child's lesson. I have a comfy sofa awaiting you. I've been playing guitar myself since March, 2000 and spent the seven years prior to that receiving keyboard lessons. I received my first payment for a guitar lesson in 2004, and have been teaching as a full-time job since 2011. In terms of my teaching style, I have been most influenced by the words of wisdom from the guitar god Guthrie Govan concerning how to go about understanding things, whom I've been paying attention to since 2002 via his articles in Guitar Techniques magazine. No doubt everything else in that magazine, to which I'm still subscribed, has influenced me greatly. But more recently I have been greedily implementing everything I have heard from the Stanford professor of neurobiology Andrew Huberman on the subjects of skill learning and habit formation. This has led to a profound shift in my approach, as I care a great deal about achieving as much progress per unit of time spent practising as possible, and contriving to make practice a default behaviour. I charge more per hour than any of my competitors. This is because I have created a library of online tuitional materials that correspond to every lesson I teach, which my students can access 24/7. I continue to upload video, diagrams, and detailed text on a regular basis. This way, it is impossible for my students to leave a lesson confused about what it is they need to practice during the week. Three lessons per month with me will cost less and provide more value than four per month with a teacher charging £30 per hour, but who likely has very little in the way of long-term plan, structure, experience, and teaching materials for the 99% of the time when you're not having a guitar lesson. One of my students, whom I've been teaching since the age of 6 in 2012 (and continue to do so every Thursday) now teaches guitar himself in his local area. Other of my longer-serving students have gone on to study music composition or performance, and I'm not too proud to say that some have surpassed my skills in certain areas, for which I'm simultaneously proud and annoyed. Guitar is hard, you need a growth mindset as there are many obstacles along the way and it's a slow download, so to speak. Therefore, most will give up. But if you find that you're serious, I know how to get you where you want to go with as little time wasted as possible. Thank you for taking the time to read. If you'd like to learn more, please visit my website:
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