Posts Tagged ‘Music lessons’

Yesterday was a busy day.

Posted in Blog, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 26, 2022| Leave a Comment »


Yesterday started as a fairly quiet sort of day, with just a couple of lessons to do and some admin tasks to complete.

But the afternoon suddenly went mad. It started with a phone call from someone who would like to start saophone lessons, So I booked them in. 10 minutes later a second phone call from another person wanting to start playing. Then a student who had been away on family business rang, and restarted his lessons, and finally a gent rang as he wanted to take up the clarinet so I booked him in too.

It was a bit like waiting for a bus, nothing for a while then four turn up at once. Wow.

A very exciting afternoon all round. I am looking forward to meeting all of these musicians next week. and getting them started on their musical journey.

IF anyone else is interested in taking up either the saxophone or clarinet, or would like some help making progress if they are an exisitng player, please get in touch.

Many thanks

Dave

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How’s it Going?

Posted in Blog, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »


As some of you will know, we moved to the Isle of Wight at the end of 2018.  My wife had to stay in Leicester to finish off at her job, but finally moved over permanently 2 weeks ago.  She started her new job here on Monday and has survived the first week, in pretty sound condition.

For me, I am building my business back up. This includes attracting new students, talking to venues about possible gigs, busking, workshops and networking meetings.

So far, I have started working with 2 local students doing face to face lessons.  I have also  kept some of my Leicestershire and Rutland students by using Facetime and Skype (this is working really well).  I have also just booked a trial lesson for an adult clarinettist.  I am running a workshop for a local Saxophone ensemble in March along with giving a presentation about wedding music to a group of Brides to be at a networking workshop run by a local wedding co-ordinator.

Tonight, I am playing at Cowes Golf Club for a social evening, and next month I am playing at a Yacht Club in Cowes for their Jazz evening.

So things are moving in the right direction for us.

If you would like to talk about lessons for yourself or a friend, via Skype or Facetime or face to face, then please get in touch or pass on my details.

 

Many thanks

 

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Lessons both Remote and face to face.

Posted in Lessons, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 15, 2018| Leave a Comment »


Yesterday I met up with my first new local student in Ryde.  Like me, she moved to the island only 3 weeks ago, and wanted to restart having clarinet lessons.  She has been playing for about 10 years and has reached a good standard, but took a break recently with moving house and looking for employment.

We had a good lesson and spent a lot of it, just getting her lip back into shape and working out how each of us work.  We are arranging further lessons in between Christmas and the New Year, and I am looking forward to helping her carry on making good progress and having fun at the same time.

The remote lessons via Skype and FaceTime are going well and the signal here is very good.

Someone said  recently that it is the  modern equivalent of Short wave radio school lessons that used to happen in places like the outback of Australia or Africa, when people lived to far away from schools to travel.

I think this is definitely the way forward, as it allows you to work with the teacher that you want, rather than having to work with someone purely because they are local, and for some students it means being able to have lessons rather than struggling on your own if there is no one local.IMG-8967

What do you think?  Why not get in touch to see if I can help you?

 

Best wishes

 

Dave

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New Beginnings.

Posted in Blog, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 12, 2018| Leave a Comment »


First of all let me apologise for the lack of recent posts on this site.  The reason for it is that both Carole and I took the decision about 18 months to move house to the Isle of Wight.  To some of you this is probably not a big surprise if you know us, as we have spent so much time over here that we where almost residents a year ago.

Well now we have moved to a small town called Shanklin and we live a whole 10 minute walk from the seafront and loving every minute of it.

 

Loads to do on the house, but that’s for the future.  Now I must build the business back up and start getting my name out there, this side of the Solent.

I am playing next week at the Freshwater Resource Centre for their Christmas party, these are a great bunch of senior citizens who definitely know how to have a laugh.  Plus they have invited me to join them for Christmas Dinner that day, how cool is that.

I have already met a few potential new students that are looking to learn or improve, and I am doing Skype/FaceTime lessons with some of my Leicester students too.

I have 8 Island weddings in the diary for 2019, but there is loads of room for more.

I will be aiming to put regular posts up here, so please feel free to comment or contact me if you are interested in my services.

 

I look forward to speaking to you soon.

 

Dave

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