My journey begins at the age of five, where I was motivated to start drums as it was “cool”, something to compensate for my quiet behavior. I went to multiple schools, but there was no luck as I was still too short to even reach the pedals of the drums. The last school that I visited bluntly refused me on the spot for that same reason, but offered me guitar or piano instead. My dad respectfully refused and started heading towards the door to leave. As my dad looks behind him, he turns around and saw me still like a statue. “I want to play classical guitar,” I said, which was the first time I ever spoke up for myself.

From there, I started practicing guitar. I changed teachers many times, until I finally made it to a good intermediate level.

Then, Covid 19 happened. I started self teaching myself acoustic and electric guitar to pass time. Big shoutout to the YouTube channels Guitar Zero to Hero and Kennethacoustic for teaching me most of the songs and chords — they were my initial motivators during quarantine where we couldn't meet with any teachers. I started actually becoming good at all three kinds of guitar, and I even started a school music band during high school that was very successful. At the same time of the band start up, I finally stumbled upon an amazing and professional guitar teacher for my final years before my AMEB. But, when I started playing to him, there were many gaps that I had developed during my beginner years that none of my tutors pointed out to me, and had carried on into my advanced years. My teacher looked at me in astonishment, as these small gaps should have been fixed a long while ago and are now impeding my ability to gain any progress in guitar. “The more professional you are, the harder it is to fix those gaps. Now, it is nearly impossible to do so.”

Obviously I fixed those gaps and am now practicing for my AMEB certificate, which I hope to gain by the end of this year. The moral of that experience was that there are unfortunately many guitarists that are very skilled but do not have enough care for students or attention to detail to fix those initial mistakes so that they do not become significant gaps in the future. I worked very hard to fix those gaps, but why would I waste my time fixing it if it could've been avoided in the first place having picked the right tutors for me? Ultimately, my passion for guitar tutoring stems from this frustration of these careless tutors that fill the market today. For guitarists like me, I want to offer a genuine service that will focus entirely on their gaps and progress them till the next level. I would rather spend a month meticulously correcting a single piece for my student and fix all the mistakes in it rather than completing as many pieces as possible. That doesn't mean that I strive for perfection in every piece, but I want my students to be good enough to be able to gain the adequate skills from that piece.