JULY 2018

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.

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IMPORTANT UPDATES!

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There are a couple of new protocols I need to put forward for current students and parents/guardians.  Please pay attention to the following:

• From July onwards I will be sending calendar invites (using iCal) in order to confirm lessons.  Please make sure the invitations are accepted.  Each invite will contain information on cancellation policies and contain a link to full terms and conditions on my website.
• As I conduct the majority of my business from home I have a duty to respect the comfort of the people I live with.  Most students attend at a time of day where there is no one but myself in the house, but as I become busier it is more likely for lessons to be conducted later in the evening when my partner and lodgers may be back from work.  Moving forward I must ask that if your lesson takes place past 5:30pm that any parent or guardian attending the lesson either sits in the lesson for its duration or remains outside the property until its completion.  There maybe one off days when someone else is working from home and, if this is the case, I will ask the same.

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STUDENT FOCUS

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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.

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OFFERS

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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.
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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.

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Send your friends THIS Link

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UPCOMING GIGS

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Lauren Day and Matt Hurt Duo
The Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly
July 13 at 7pm

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Caramel Sessions
Ettalong Diggers, Ettalong 
July 14, 10pm