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Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where do you live? What’s your background?
I live in Ashford, Kent in England where I have lived most of my life. I started playing guitar when I was 15 after being introduced to guitar-driven bands such as Green Day and Nirvana by my sister’s then boyfriend.
After playing around for a couple of years, I started to get lessons with a local teacher while studying computing at college. Three years later I was studying music production and sitting an audition to become a guitar teacher for a local Yamaha Music School where my guitar teacher at the time worked, but was leaving and named me as a suitable replacement.
One of the first lessons I ever taught was a group lesson of five students. I remember coming home shaking but after a few more lessons I began to really enjoy teaching and immersed myself fully into music education, leaving music production behind.
Over the next few years I achieved grade 8 music performance and grade 8 music theory and wrote articles for Play Guitar, Teach Guitar and Acoustic Guitar magazines, I also begun teaching full-time. Tell us about your guitar teaching business.
