Carpe Diem Guitar Tuition

Tim’s knowledge of music, music-styles, chords, songs, tricks, licks, theory, music-stories, his fretboard-fluency and real-time song-tabbing never ceases to amaze me. All delivered in a relaxed no-pressure friendly manner. I imagined that somehow I’d found the teacher that exactly understood my tastes, but reading through his testimonials I realise that is the case for all his students, whatever guitar style they are playing (or trying to!). Aged 60 I finally got an electric+amp. Figured I’d teach myself off the web ... months later still struggling to bang out simple riffs. Within a couple of lessons Tim had me making recognisable renditions of some of my all time favourite rock tunes. Bye-bye air-guitar. For someone as skilled as he, never a whiff of impatience as my middle-aged fingers struggled to obey, and in less than a year he had me working on a lead piece with string-bending and soloing up to fret15 that never in my wildest dreams I though I might aspire to, ever. In no-stress laid-back simple terms he answers my dumb questions and sends amazing pdf material through to back up the answer. I’ve never had to practice some cheesy song that I hate – I mention a song, Tim either knows it, or just figures it out on the fly. Not only that, he writes up the lesson’s pieces, annotating his tabs, so much easier to follow than the clickbait ad-filled rubbish you find online (and getting it right! – so much on the web is just wrong), so’s it still sounds great but matches your skill level; your custom song tab gets scanned to PDF skyped/emailed/whatsapped to you and remains available online – all in the lesson – amazing. And lots of mp3 backing tracks to practice to in all the various keys on your personal web area. If only Tim had been guitar teacher back at school ......Thank you.

Tim is a fantastic teacher - I started lessons with very little guitar knowledge and skill, and last year got a distinction in Grade 8. Tim will tailor your lessons to do whatever it is you’re interested in, I couldn’t recommend him enough!

Only on my second lesson, but Tim is great. Very easy to get along with and puts his students first. So you get what you want and more. Highly Recommended

I started with Tim when I was 11 and clueless and he got me through all the grades and turned me into a solid guitarist. Very easy to talk to and his advice always helped me loads. One of the best around no doubt. Recommend 100%

Lessons with Tim are always highly personalised; he uses his vast experience and personable character to create something perfect for every individual. I’ve really enjoyed my lessons for the past couple of years, and we’ve never come across a song I wanted to play that he couldn’t simplify enough for me to learn. Highly recommended! :)