 Student Focus This month's Student Focus feature two of my most recent students, twins Jon and Rhys. Read on to find out more of why they have both really impressed me the past month. Please don't forget to review Matt Hurt Guitar Tuition on Facebook and Google. IMPORTANT UPDATES!I have been waiting until I had the right amount of students to put an idea like this into the wild. At the end of this term I'd like to put on a STUDENT CONCERT to showcase all the hard work you have put in. It should be a fairly casual affair, probably split into a few groups, most likely decided by age. Not only is it a great way to give the students some performing experience, but it gives parents, friends and family the chance to see how far you or your child have come this term. It is also good to give yourself a tangible deadline to work on a piece to have ready for performance. Please let me know if this is something you or your child would be interested in being a part of. STUDENT FOCUS Jon and Rhys* Twins Jon and Rhys are two of my more recent students. We've been working together for about 2 months now. I visit them every two weeks and their progress has really astounded me. Jon has down syndrome. Lisa first contacted me to get lessons for Rhys, but after our initial conversation she thought it might be a good idea if Jon could sit in on the lessons too. So with Jon we've been looking at simple ukulele chords that he can play along with Rhys. At first Jon's attention span was understandably fairly short. I was a new person coming to their home trying to teach him something new. Lisa is great, she sits in with Jon and helps him with the chord fingering while he strums the instrument. We're now at a stage where Jon can sit in on a whole 45 minute lesson and not want to have a break. He's definitely a music lover, we have a new request for different film music every week! Shrek 3rd and Mary Poppins seem to be the favourites. Rhys is also coming on leaps and bounds. He seems to be one of those people with a great ability to learn quickly. We've started with a piece called 'The Man Who Never Lied' by Maroon 5. The chord structure in the piece is a fairly simple progression, but he picked it up so quickly we've been adding in more intricacy each week. Even when I think I'm showing him something that'll take him a while to pick up he has it by the end of the lesson! I think we'll have to watch out for this one, he'll be teaching me soon! I'm really excited to see where both these awesome lads can get to. Many thanks to Lisa for allowing me to showcase your brilliant boys. *Photo and information taken and shared with the permission of parents. OFFERS
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 This month I am introducing a new feature! Student Focus This feature will present a small biography of the student that has impressed me the most in recent weeks. Read on for this month's Student Focus. Please don't forget to review Matt Hurt Guitar Tuition on Facebook and Google. IMPORTANT UPDATES! There are a couple of new protocols I need to put forward for current students and parents/guardians. Please pay attention to the following:
STUDENT FOCUS Mirabelle, 10* I started teaching Mirabelle about 2 and a half years ago when I was working for Five Dock Music School. When the school closed its doors we were given the opportunity to retain our students privately if they wished to carry on lessons. Mirabelle stuck at it for another 6 months and, then while the family completed the building of their new house, she decided to take a little break. About 9 months later I received a call from Mirabelle's Mum saying she'd recently picked up her guitar again and was itching for lessons! Ever since she has been making strides week on week, surprising herself at what she can play! I think both her Mum and I realised that playing the guitar was something she loved when she started to teach herself songs outside of the lessons. We've recently been working on songs by Dua Lipa, Anne-Marie and AC/DC's Back in Black! We'd only done one lesson on Back in Black and she had the confidence to play it in front of her class at school! Now that we've got all the rhythm and riff parts learned we've just started on learning the solo, I can't wait to see her face when she realises she can do it! I'm pretty sure she's sneakily learned some Metallica along the way without me helping her too. Her effort and quick progress makes Mirabelle the subject of my first 'Student Focus'. *Photo and information taken and shared with the permission of parents. OFFERS Referral Rewards The best type of advertising is word of mouth, right? As a continuous offer, current students (or parents/guardians) who successfully refer a friend to Matt Hurt Guitar Tuition will be rewarded with a FREE 30 MINUTE LESSON AND your referral will get the same! Send them the link below, tell them to fill in the contact form with the code REFER30 and your name as a reference. Terms and conditions: the referred student must complete, or pre-pay for 3 hours of tuition in order for offer to be valid. Multiple referrals per student are allowed, however a maximum of 60 minutes free tuition per term (or every cumulative 5 hours) will be rewarded per current student. In the case that you refer 3 new students that qualify you for 90 minutes total of free lessons the remaining 30 minutes will be carried over to the next term or invoice. UPCOMING GIGSLauren Day and Matt Hurt Duo The Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly July 13 at 7pm Caramel Sessions Ettalong Diggers, Ettalong July 14, 10pm   |
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