Back to reality!!
I started back teaching face to face in September 2021 and have continued to do so. There is still an option to have lessons online via zoom and now music exams, including Pop Vocals, can be taken in many ways and formats with London College of Music.
Previously....
Lockdown Update!
I'm still teaching music lessons and Wilful Choir online via Zoom and finding it interesting, challenging but still very worthwhile.
All of my students have stayed with me, for which I'm extremely grateful and we're all learning how to do this together!
Here's what a new adult, guitar student (who had brain damage) wrote
Lockdown blues
When the lockdown was announced I thought "Oh no, what on earth am I going to do now?" I live on my own, and life was set to look pretty grim for a few months. I really needed something to focus on. The next day I was doing my daily meditation when I had a rare and sudden flash of inspiration. I'll learn to play the guitar! And, more importantly, I'll ask my 10 year old youngest daughter if she wants to learn too! I'd given her a guitar for her birthday the year before, but so far we'd never done anything with it.
A few lockdown days later I received a huge parcel by special delivery from Germany. When I opened it, there was a beautiful new classical guitar!
I already knew Surya form the Wilful Choir, and she has now been giving my daughter and me guitar lessons, separately, over Zoom! She is a really inspirational teacher and makes the lessons fun and engaging. She is very encouraging, even to a musically ignorant middle aged fellow like myself! I should add that I have a brain injury having had encephalitis a few years ago, and I see the guitar lessons as an important part of my ongoing cognitive rehabilitation. There is nothing quite like learning an instrument for making new neural connections and developing neuroplacticity. It has so many benefits, developing memory, coordination, rhythm and concentration, as well as being fun!
The great thing has been discovering a new shared enthusiasm with my daughters for music and learning the guitar. Who knows, if the lockdown goes on for long we might have learnt the complete Beatles playlist!"
Thanks so much to Dave (not his real name!)
Welcome to the website of Surya Cooper, a creative professional offering music lessons, yoga, courses and workshops in the Richmond, Twickenham and Kingston areas. Do check my Latest News by the way!
Find out more...
Lockdown Update!
I'm still teaching music lessons and Wilful Choir online via Zoom and finding it interesting, challenging but still very worthwhile.
All of my students have stayed with me, for which I'm extremely grateful and we're all learning how to do this together!
Here's what a new adult, guitar student (who had brain damage) wrote
Lockdown blues
When the lockdown was announced I thought "Oh no, what on earth am I going to do now?" I live on my own, and life was set to look pretty grim for a few months. I really needed something to focus on. The next day I was doing my daily meditation when I had a rare and sudden flash of inspiration. I'll learn to play the guitar! And, more importantly, I'll ask my 10 year old youngest daughter if she wants to learn too! I'd given her a guitar for her birthday the year before, but so far we'd never done anything with it.
A few lockdown days later I received a huge parcel by special delivery from Germany. When I opened it, there was a beautiful new classical guitar!
I already knew Surya form the Wilful Choir, and she has now been giving my daughter and me guitar lessons, separately, over Zoom! She is a really inspirational teacher and makes the lessons fun and engaging. She is very encouraging, even to a musically ignorant middle aged fellow like myself! I should add that I have a brain injury having had encephalitis a few years ago, and I see the guitar lessons as an important part of my ongoing cognitive rehabilitation. There is nothing quite like learning an instrument for making new neural connections and developing neuroplacticity. It has so many benefits, developing memory, coordination, rhythm and concentration, as well as being fun!
The great thing has been discovering a new shared enthusiasm with my daughters for music and learning the guitar. Who knows, if the lockdown goes on for long we might have learnt the complete Beatles playlist!"
Thanks so much to Dave (not his real name!)
Welcome to the website of Surya Cooper, a creative professional offering music lessons, yoga, courses and workshops in the Richmond, Twickenham and Kingston areas. Do check my Latest News by the way!
Find out more...
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