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[taimatsu]

ah yes. I looked on Daily Information for music tuition, and emailed two guitar tutors. I've had a response from one of them, with reasonable rates and location and stuff. what should I do about organising trial lessons and stuff? How should I check whether this person is legit, is suitable to teach, etc? I ahve a feeling he may *actually* be a friend of someone I used to know (Reb - just a hunch) but what should I officially do? If I were looking for lessons through a school of council or soemthing, it would be easy, but going totally private is difficult. Thoughts

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[borusa.livejournal.com]

Um...well...

The way it works/worked with my guitar teacher was that I saw his poster in the music shop where he works days, wandered in, spoke to him, booked a first lesson, pitched up and paid at the end.

I pay every lesson, and although I have a regular appointment, to stop it I'd just need to say "I don't want to do this anymore." and stop.

So, if I felt his teaching was poor, I'd just stop.

I realise that there might be some other issues safety-related for you, which you should be relatively careful about (leave the address with your housemates would be a good idea), but what more approval do you want?

I wouldn't sign up for great long periods, so you can judge how you're doing, but above that...

Robert

[emperor]

I'd see if they have any relevant paper qualifications; I'd also go looking for music lessons through a local music shop (since presumably bad ones will get weeded out eventually); other than that, ring them up and arrange one lesson? If they're crap, then don't go back. If you have safety concerns, then leave your address and a time you're due back with someone.

[inskauldrak.livejournal.com]

Advice on where you're going/when you're due back etc. above is all good.

Other thing you could do is find out if they're a 'professional' - if they're in the Union directory I can tell you ('cos the directory is available to the public).

Also, the official who deals with the Oxford Branch currently is in the same office as me and whilst he can't recommend one person over the other he might well have some suggestions

that helpful at all?

Michael