Simon Guy

My lessons are tailored to the student so it really depends on what level you are at and want to focus on. What are you learning piano for? (It's ok if you don't know the reason too!)

Scales are important, but don't need to be boring. I will show you how you can keep them varied. So we would usually look at how that is going and see what has improved from the last lesson, through your own practice. Then we would typically look at a piece of music that you are working through (graded or just because you want to).

Finally a lesson might end with a chance to develop improvisation skills and maybe even jam.

Over the years I have had different tutors myself and found that is important to get the balance right between direct teaching and exploring the piano in a structured environment. That is why I prefer to run my lessons as student and teacher led. This means you can come with endless possibilities for where you want to take the lessons and my job is to help craft that into a meaningful direction, which will develop the piano skills you need for life.

Your goal with this could be to play for yourself, or even in a huge venue one day. But I will always encourage you to focus on yourself first. You are your first audience and if you can get to a level where you enjoy the sound of what you play then you enter a virtuous circle where practising is a complete joy.