Simon

Would you like lessons before school or work? I offer early bird lessons starting from 6am.

I am a London Music School/Academy Of Contemporary Music graduate and professional musician with 15+ years teaching experience.

Through tutoring I strive at all times to:

- Instil confidence in students through positive feedback.
- Observe and assessed student performance.
- Encourage students to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Interact with parents, to maintain productive communication.
- Strive to uncover students` hidden talents and passions.
- Interact with children and promoted good behaviour through positive reinforcement methods.
- Conquer the challenges of working with a highly diverse student population to attain exceptional
student achievement.
- Set and communicated ground rules for lessons based on respect and personal responsibility.
- Establish positive relationships with students and parents.

Availability: I am currently available for online and face to face tuition in Woking. tuition, please contact me for further information.

Willing to travel: Home Only

Experience: During my time teaching guitar, bass guitar, drums & vocals and beginners piano. I have worked for many organisations including:

The Berkshire Meastro`s - Formally The Berkshire Young Musicians Trust, Music 4 Slough, The Rock & Pop Project and Bracknell & Wokingham Council (STARS). I have also taught in the following schools as a peripatetic: Charters (Ascot), Garth Hill (Bracnell), Strodes 6th Form (Egham), Farnborough College (Farnborough), Yately School, Leighton Park (Reading), Sandhurst Comprehensive (Sandhurst) and many more.

Up until March 2019 I was based at The FBC Centre in Finchampstead (Wokingham) where I taught drums, guitar, bass guitar, vocals and beginners piano. I taught 6 days a week and tutored in the region of 90 students a week.

In 2018 I started working as a group helper with local disabled charity Linkable. LinkAble helps children and adults with learning disabilities in Woking and Surrey Heath and offer people activities and experiences that they struggle to access in the wider community, supporting them to learn new skills, form lasting friendships and lead fulfilling, independent lives. I work with Linkable during half terms and the Summer holidays to provide respite days for people with learning disabilities, parents and carers. I also worked with Actables, Linkables acting and drama group. 

I have the following certifications:

- DBS & First Aid (Basic Life Support)
- Health & Safety
- Hoist Trained
- Minbus Trained
- Full clean driving licence.

As a professional musician I have played 2000+ gigs with 100`s of bands ranging from covers, weddings and function bands to original rock and pop bands. I have toured Europe playing in Holland, Italy, Hungary, Germany, The Czech Republic, Latvia and The Middle East - Dubai.

Written and recorded three albums;

Talk On Corners (2006), A State Of Delirium (2008),Moments Of Magnitude (2011)

Recorded Blue Suburbia withTraffic Experiment and Alamien with The Fuse.





 

DBS Check: Yes