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Michael
- Rate R710
- Response 1h
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Number of students Michael has accompanied since joining Superprof
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R710/h
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- Guitar
- Bass guitar
About Michael
Hello , i would like to say i am very happy to take on any students of any age from 7 to 87 !! I have many years experience teaching Primary School guitar groups and the same with Secondary School students and i am used to going through course work and theory to back it up . I have taught OAP groups and if i can help anyone get close to a dream they might have about playing i am really happy to help . I started taking Jazz guitar lessons with a brilliant man called Cedric West in 1984. Through these lessons I got to grips with the Jazz standard repertoire and started gigging with Cedric. A year later I read a Guitar Player magazine article on Jaco Pastorius and got heavily into his music to the point of imitation. In 1992 I started jamming with musicians like Simon Purcell and guitarist Phil Robson and through these jams got a place on the Guildhall School of music Jazz course on which Simon was a teacher . I then started gigging professionally on Bass guitar and Double bass. While at the Guildhall I studied Jazz double bass with Jeff Clyne. The piano has been a great help with finding harmony and these concepts I transferred to the guitar .During the 1990s I played on many recordings on the guitar and now years later I am looking back to my lessons with Cedric West and am now gigging on the guitar . I have a gig coming up playing the music of Herbie Hancock on acoustic guitar with a quartet . If you are interested in the Jazz guitar styles of George Benson or Kenny Burrell or Joe pass I might be able to help . We jammed with Joe Pass once a Cedrics house back in 1990! Other teachers I have studied with are on guitar Dave Cliff and on Bass guitar Dill Katz and at two Bass nature camps in 2003 and 2005 with Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey . At the 2003 camp I won a scholarship to the Bass collective in NewYork and took Bass lessons there for two weeks also checking out the NY jazz scene . On the pop side I have always loved the music of Elton John and David Bowie and The Who and gig and teach their songs . While I am by no means Eddie Van Halen I would say I am a good decent Rock guitarist in the classic sense . ON THE BASS GUITAR IF YOUR INTERESTED IN THE STYLES OF STANLEY CLARKE OR MARCUS MILLER OR the upright bass jazz styles of Ron Carter or Ray Brown maybe i can help . Its been since the early 1980s that i started learning about all this music and now its time to pass it on to another generation i hope . That could be an older one or younger one . I dont mind which and I hope it’s both .
Prizes and Scholarships :
Bass collective music School in New York
About the lesson
- All levels
- English
Languages in which the lesson is available :
English
Guitar teacher at London.
Recommendations
Recommendations are written by the tutor's friends, family, and acquaintances.
I have personally known Mike for a good few years from when I became his bass student.
I can personally attest to his very high level of musicianship,clear and thoughtful explanations of the method required to become a good and rounded professional,and of course,his very patient and easy-going manner with which he imparts his experience through to the student.
He is a great teacher,a great musician and a great chap!
Anyone who takes the time to study with him will be very happy with his professional and informal manner.Michael is a superb teacher and peerless musician. I have had the pleasure of learning to play jazz guitar, facilitated by Michael's learned and patient approach.
I would recommend him with impugnity; he is highly qualified as a musician and as teacher he gives to his students a boundless and fresh enthusiasm, whatever the challenges they may have, as in my case with my right hand technique. Please contact me if you need to know moreSee more recommendations
Rates
Rate
- R710
Package rates
- 5h: R3550
- 10h: R7100
online
- R710/h
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