We will use the first free lesson to discuss what you, as the student, would like to get out of the lessons. We can go through any specific areas you might wish to improve upon, or if you don't know yet, there's no need to worry! I can always set out a lesson plan in order to discover your strengths and weaknesses or if you're starting out completely new, we can begin with the crucial foundation steps in order to accelerate your learning.

In a typical piano lesson, what we would cover, would vary according to your level. For example, if you are already playing at an intermediate level, we would cover devices/techniques to push you the next stage up - I always aim to find suitable challenges that are just the right level of difficulty, tailored to you. If you're doing grades or preparing for an exam, we would cover the pieces without neglecting other important exercises and knowledge not covered within the syllabus. We can decide on what length of lesson is right for you depending on what you're after!

For Maths, Chemistry and Physics, at the start of each lesson, I will come up with a list of objectives, possibly from the exam board, and then we will go into as much depth as we get to aim to develop an intuition around the topic. For example, if we were to have the aim to 'understand the trigonometric functions', the first part of the lesson would be to find a way to help you visualise it, understand it and put it into context by solving questions on it. This approach really speeds up the time it takes to process and answer questions which really is the killer/winner when it comes getting the highest mark you possibly can!

If the aim we are covering in the lesson cannot be easily simplified (i.e. memorising chemical reactions) then we will go over the content, and practice questions together. We can also find an easy way to memorise it, as there are tricks that can help you. I will share with you the methods I used to memorise concepts when I studied Chemistry, Physics and Maths at GCSE and A-Level.