Rachael Pickering

I quite like lessons to be student led - we find your strengths and weaknesses together and carefully build up your resilience together.

My aim is always to create a well rounded musician - and try encompass as many different elements to make you a stronger performer.

We cover good technique, breathing practice for the woodwind players and dexterity exercises for everyone. We play pieces you will love, as well as those you might come to respect for the benefit they bring you.

The lessons will be conducted on zoom or teams - during the lesson I type up lesson notes so you know what is expected of you the following week. It will also draw your attention to those things that you have done well and those things you have progressed on.

Often students will make a goal, or two, with me at the start of the year of things that they would like to achieve over the course of the year. This is usually for a sense of personal progression rather than needing to have things done by a certain time.

We cover a wide variety of pieces together and I will always be open to song requests that we can work together as well.

If students wish to do exams this is something we can prepare for as well.

I have taught students of all ages and ability levels for the past 20 years and I still love adapting my lessons to suit the individual needs. There is no one way to learn something - there is just the way you need it explained.