What makes you pick up the guitar to practice? Reading our latest reviews for our YGA tutors, it seems that this is the first question that Matt in Bristol asks his new students. What a question! We hear from Matt's student, Reuben, about just how much Matts bespoke lessons that centre around his favourite music, help him improve quickly.
As you'll see below, the importance of this question should not be underestimated! Every single student is different, and to try and blanket every student with the same exact set of lessons would defeat the point of private 1-2-1 sessions. Matt, along with all of our tutors, takes the time to find out as much about your musical tastes in the first trial lesson as he can, to ensure that he can adapt his teaching to suit you, and make sure that you want to go home and pick up the guitar every-day. Let's hear from Reuben, one of Matts students, on how it has helped his progression on the guitar:
Before starting tuition, I had a conversation with my tutor (Matt Lockyer), where he asked me what I wanted to get from lessons. After my first few lessons, I could tell that he had taken the time to really consider what I had said and had constructed lesson plans that were exactly on the right track.
I predominantly asked to be taught the theory, with a goal of knowing the fretboard like it was a part of my body, able to jam with ease, and know where I was musically when playing... He also asked me what kind of stuff I liked to play, so I reeled off a few bands, what I liked etc... Come the next lesson he'd learnt one of the songs I'd mentioned and figured out how it applied to the theory we were learning and the other areas of theory that the particular song explored. This has really helped me engage with the lessons and has made learning the theory really exciting.
The lessons are definitely bespoke, and you can clearly notice your own progression.
Matt's very personable, and delivers the lessons at a professional level in a relaxed friendly way. For me this makes the lessons really enjoyable, worthwhile and fantastic value.
Reuben, Bristol based YGA student
Thank you very much to Reuben for submitting this excellent review of Matt, and simply have to write a big shout out to Matt for being a total professional and delivering such high-quality guitar lessons to all of his students. If you would like to book a £10 trial lesson with Matt in Bristol, please get in touch via our guitar lessons bristol page. We're looking forward to hearing your answer to the question, "What makes you pick up the guitar to practice?!"