“See you next Monday and yes I’m very much looking forward to it!!”
Guitar student
Fretboard
Bamba Dia’s Story
Gavin is truly an excellent teacher!!! He teaches all levels no matter your ability or age. If you want to expand your knowledge of music you’ve found the right person.
Gavin will soon inspire your deeper appreciation and understanding of how the guitar works. A unique teaching style of guitar playing. Making it fun and enjoyable eager to learn more. He has taught me everything I know about guitar. I’ve recently passed my grade 3 with distinction and grade 4 Merit and in December I’ll do my grade 5 exam with London College of Music. Having lessons with Gavin is the best thing I’ve ever done. If you’re going to learn make sure you learn from the best!
He’s charming and friendly he’ll make you feel like you’re at home with genuine enthusiasm and support, he’ll soon have your guitar playing and appreciation for all music on a whole new level! Ever since I’ve started lessons with him I can’t stop playing the guitar.
Thank you Gavin for the help and support!!!
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Today was no different…happily!!
My student is learning bass and qualified last year, but recently took up the 6 string guitar.
Every lesson is different: sometimes I struggle with the formations of chords, and particularly the speed, rhythm and instant reconstruction across six strings with three not-exactly- slender fingertips yet…when that one chord sounds perfect, the swell within this poorly-tuned rib cage rises, momentarily, to meet the kaleidoscopic emotions released within that one down-thrust of emotive expression via this right hand.
I began, tentatively, playing the four strings of the bass, under Gavin’s auspices, many moons ago and have continued to enjoy very much the process and the successes but also the challenge of these journeys…and they are multiple…within the same arena, different styles, different moods, the same charged diversity.
Today was no different…happily!!
Andy 🙂
Teaching guitar for Fender
Thanks to Fender for asking me to teach guitar for them.
I taught children and adults guitar skills including classical, rock, punk, and lead guitar.
My feet left the ground!! (Blog 6)
At the start of my learning, my apprenticeship, today, my coordination was inexplicably erratic. I couldn’t work at the required pace without some obvious incompetence. Yet, never the judge, Gav reminds me that this is MY learning time and
that through challenge will arise achievement (I paraphrased what he really meant to
say!). I remind myself too that time is space; right now, time isn’t holding the reins. I am!
However, as self confidence re-emerged and competence returned, experience, learning
and enthusiasm slowly began to increase. Acquired sound sequences and patterns rose
to the surface again, like a wave-breaking Nautilus; timing and rhythms we’re
beginning to conjoin, all elements coalescing, with both purpose and tension, towards the tonal stairway to the final climactic C sharp! My feet left the ground!!
Meta-euphorically(C), they have yet to land…!
AS
Bass Journal Part 4
Bass Journal Part 3
Bass Journal Part 2
Bass Journal Part 1
AS Bass Recording (Journal part 4)
This bass recording shows steady co-ordination, timing, and clarity of notes played over drums, and a synthesiser. A huge accomplishment in the short amount of time he has learnt to play.
He has a recognised qualification in bass playing which has also been achieved prior to this.
Courtesy of AS for the sample, listen to what can be achieved with practice.
For more on his background and progress check out:
Bass Journal Part 5 (watch this space)
Bass Journal Part 3
Bass Journal Part 2
Bass Journal Part 1
An interactive way
Source: Victor Wooten
My student is preparing for his test
Learning Bass (Part 1)
AS approached me for bass lessons and has recently tried the electric guitar. Recently he has passed his grade and felt ready to share his playing.
I have intended to learn the bass guitar since I was a teenager but never
had the patience nor self-discipline to begin in any realistic sense. In
July 2014 I walked into an independent retail outlet and bought an amp,
lead and a crimson & black bass guitar, making a commitment to myself to
then finding a guitar teacher.
My student is learning this ready for his test