Islip based guitarist Simon Taylor can offer tuition to students of all levels, on both acoustic and electric instruments, and particularly welcomes beginners.

Choose what you wish to learn - accompany your singing, improvise solos, study a new style, further your knowledge.
 

Contemporary styles

Acoustic and electric, blues, rock, pop styles and jazz etc.
 

Beginners

With young beginners I recommend working with a classical method book to learn to read music, master the basics and develop good technique.
For adult beginners who don’t wish to study classical, I typically focus on building chord knowledge and strumming confidence, as well as learning simple melody lines, using well known tunes.
 

Players with some experience

Acoustic or electric playing, developing strumming patterns, picking technique, chordal knowledge & improvisation. We study different scales, more complex chord forms and explore new techniques and musical styles.
 

Advanced players

As well as furthering technical ability, I teach theory, harmony, improvisation and aim to give an overall understanding of the fretboard. For jazz players I teach all styles incl. Standards, Be-bop, fusion, contemporary, gypsy jazz etc.
 

Singing Accompaniment

Building chordal knowledge, learning fingers style and strumming with plectrum. Developing a good ear and understanding chords and harmony with a view to learning to write songs.
 

My approach

My approach to teaching is aimed at encouraging and supporting my students, but most importantly, enjoyment. I very much encourage creativity and expression through experimentation, playing by ear and improvisation with a view to developing general musicianship. I use a wide variety of teaching material including classical and contemporary styles of music, and very much gear lessons to the individual students ability and areas of interest.
 

For more information about my tuition, please give me a call on the number below or send an email.
 

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Simon Taylor, telephone 01865 377852, simon@oxfordguitar.co.uk