Guitar / vocal / songwriting tuition for all ages

Self taught guitar/singer/songwriter for the last 15 years.
I'm a musician, filmmaker and father living in St Leonards.
Being part British/Turkish has led to my music taste being rather varied...

Having worked in a secondary school with the music dept. working one to one as well as in small groups, I feel I am able to relate with and encourage teens / young adults who are passionate about music. I now head up all things music at my local church of 300+ arranging choirs, bands and soloists for various events. Most recently scoring original arrangements for a small orchestra at a Christmas event. It brings me great joy working with both causal and professional musicians and seeing progress.

As a musician starting out, it can be easy to pick up some bad habits or plato rather fast.
Some points in general that I have found useful are:

Set realistic goals - this week/month I want to achieve...
Inspiration - listening to music that's maybe outside of my regular diet and giving it a go...
Breaking things down - not just watching 1/2 speed YouTube videos, but being taught at my pace and my level.
Practice - it's obvious but those boring scales and warmups work.
Learning the craft - learning to finish the song not just the riff...
Having outside input - we all have blind spots and any bad habits I had only got worse until someone encouraged me to try a different approach.

I occasionally give private in person tuition and am in the process of writing/recording a solo EP.

Thanks for reading!


“What do we need music to do? How do we visit the land in our head and the place in our heart that music is so good at taking us to?”
― David Byrne,