Who Is The Creator Of This Site ?

Hello to all visitors.

Some of you are probably wondering “IS HE QUALIFIED TO TEACH ME”, before you invest your time in my lessons. Without sounding clichéd, only you can answer that question! If this site makes sense to you, and you find it easy to learn from, then my job here is done. As for qualifications from universities or colleges, well I don't have the framed degree on my wall to say I am qualified. What I do have is years of solid experience, playing the guitar since 1984 and starting teaching in 1990. Music is my full time job. Music is what I have lived and breathed since I left school. I have never been unemployed or out of work. Music has always been good to me.

At night I work in bands, through the day I teach at schools, and in the afternoon I teach privately. As you can see, my life is just one continuous melody.

My teaching philosophy is to encourage the interest and passion that my students have for music, by allowing them to learn the guitar through their favourite songs. There is no use in trying to force sight reading and music theory on a teenager who wants nothing more than to be in a band just for fun. I have always found music can only be successfully taught once someone has been playing for a little while, and they start to love the instrument. As they improve on the basics, their natural desire is to become better, and at that moment they realise they need to know (and most importantly, want to know) the theory they initially despised!

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Here are some details on me:

• Started playing the guitar at the age of 14 (1984)
• Learnt the piano at age 16 (1986)
• Worked in a restaurant playing George Benson, Chet Atkins and other guitar instrumentalists for several years
• Started teaching the guitar at the age 20 (1990)
• Joined my first band when I was 20 (1990)

Some of my influences are:

• Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler)
• Pink Floyd
• Eagles
• The Beatles
• Tommy Emmanuel

Some of my favorite artists are:

• Dave Mathews Band
• Jeff Buckley
• Eric Clapton
• Supertramp
• Anyone with enough talent to write a good song.

Location and contacts:

• Townsville > Queensland > Australia
  
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Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have about the site or any lessons within this site. I will try to get back to you with a reply as soon as possible.