At Midlife Muso, I offer tailored contemporary piano and acoustic fingerstyle guitar lessons designed to meet your unique musical aspirations. My focus is on playing by ear and developing your musical technique to express yourself freely on your instrument. Musical fluency isn’t a superpower only for the prodigious or innately talented! Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced player, I will guide you in discovering your own sound and style.
We will focus on helping you develop your musicality and ear to be able to play songs you love or compose your own music. This seems like an advanced subject to many people, but you will see that breaking down music into components and applying techniques in line with your skill on the instrument is a practice that is more than possible from the beginner to the advanced musician. Lessons will be for an hour and focus on a song of the student’s choice to serve as an example of how to listen, internalise and then perform the song themselves. Aspects discussed will include; music theory, guitar/piano technique, music interpretation and creative expression.
I am a multi-instrumentalist with over 20 years of experience with playing and teaching budding musicians. My expertise is primarily with acoustic guitar (fingerstyle) and piano, but the techniques taught in these lessons can apply to students who have another primary instrument.
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