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Tom

5 (5 reviews)

Rate PKR 9,685
Response 1h
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Number of students Tom has accompanied since arriving at Superprof

5 (5 reviews)

PKR 9,685/hr

1^st lesson free

Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Electric guitar

Experienced tutor in Guitar in Hendersonville, Tom offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Electric guitar

Lesson location

- Online

About Tom

I teach guitar lessons as a part-time, retirement job. My student list is small and I like it that way.

More than 50 years of playing guitar and other stringed instruments.

30 years of teaching science and coaching several sports.

15 years teaching guitar.

All this has helped me adapt to the variety of learning styles that I may encounter in my guitar students.

You can take lessons in the comfortable studio I have set up in my home.

My greatest joy in teaching has always been seeing a student's face light up as he or she makes a connection to new knowledge or achieves a new skill. I am a facilitator of learning guitar. My job as guitar instructor is to find a logical way to guide a student through their own journey of guitar knowledge and skills.

Since retiring from teaching and coaching, I started my part-time guitar instruction business to "satisfy my teaching urges". I love teaching and I love music. It has been a good fit for me.

I have been playing guitar and other stringed instruments for 50+ years. While I've only been teaching guitar for the past fifteen years, I taught science and coached various sports on the high school level for 30 years till I retired in 2006. Through my experience, I learned that it is best to break up any skill or knowledge into smaller, digestable bites to help students understand and put to use what I teach them. This applies to both physical skills and to head knowledge.

Since retiring from teaching science, I have enjoyed putting my musical skills to use playing in the praise band at my church and occasionally with the church orchestra. I have also enjoyed singing and playing guitar, banjo and dobro in a couple of local Bluegrass/Americana type bands. I enjoy listening to, playing, and teaching many genres of music.

About the lesson

I try to make a plan with the student to take them from where they are to where they want to go in playing the guitar.

For the beginner, I start with the foundations of proper posture, hand position, fretting, and plucking strings. I teach what I consider the three easiest major chords and how to easily transition from one chord to another. The student then uses these chords to play a couple of simple songs. All that is accomplished in the free, first lesson. The student comes away from this lesson with practice drills to give the hands "muscle memory" of the chords. Lessons after that are spent learning new chords and new songs that use them.

For the student who already has some guitar knowledge and skill, I have the student show me some of what they know and we make a plan to take them forward from there.

I also work into the individual's plan some music theory (learning scales, reading notation, chord theory), more of it or less of it depending on the student's interest.

Through all, I emphasize having fun. It's called "playing" the guitar, not "working" the guitar.

I have taught students of a variety of ages from seven years old to some in their sixties and seventies. I've found that the greatest student success comes from a combination of natural talent, desire, and regular practice. But even a student with average talent can go far if he/she is coachable and puts in the practice time.

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Valerie
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Perfect! Tom is an experienced teacher. He assesses the students strengths and weaknesses and plans lessons to fill the needs of the student to achieve their goals. He gives the student printed lesson plans and gives the student where the next lessons will focus.
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Valerie

Perfect! Tom is an experienced teacher. He assesses the students strengths and weaknesses and plans lessons to fill the needs of the student to achieve their goals. He gives the student printed lesson plans and gives the student where the next lessons will focus.
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Gene
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Perfect! His honest and slow approach
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Janice

Mr. Tom is a caring and patient guitar teacher. My daughter has taken guitar lessons for a couple of years now . She enjoys the lessons and continues to make good progress. Has reasonable rates. And is willing to come to your house which works out really well for our family. I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a guitar teacher.
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Janice
Mr. Tom is a caring and patient guitar teacher. My daughter has taken guitar lessons for a couple of years now . She enjoys the lessons and continues to make good progress. Has reasonable rates. And is willing to come to your house which works out really well for our family. I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a guitar teacher.
Philip

I have been studying guitar with Tom Murray for over a year and recommend him without reservation. He is a highly skilled and veteran musician playing both in his church's praise band and a couple of performing bands. Tom plays several types of guitars and banjo and understands how a beginner should go about learning to play the guitar, but can explain music theory and performance topics as one advances. Tom is a retired school teacher and he is very personable and patient and makes his lessons fun as well as educational. I can't recommend Tom highly enough!
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Philip
I have been studying guitar with Tom Murray for over a year and recommend him without reservation. He is a highly skilled and veteran musician playing both in his church's praise band and a couple of performing bands. Tom plays several types of guitars and banjo and understands how a beginner should go about learning to play the guitar, but can explain music theory and performance topics as one advances. Tom is a retired school teacher and he is very personable and patient and makes his lessons fun as well as educational. I can't recommend Tom highly enough!
Amy

Tom Murray is a wonderful music teacher. My so had taken guitar lessons from a few other people and just couldn't get into it. We heard about Mr. Murray from our church-so we contacted him. Now my son loves guitar-and is very eager to go to his lessons now. Mr Murray is patient, nice, and very talented! I would highly recommend him!
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Amy
Tom Murray is a wonderful music teacher. My so had taken guitar lessons from a few other people and just couldn't get into it. We heard about Mr. Murray from our church-so we contacted him. Now my son loves guitar-and is very eager to go to his lessons now. Mr Murray is patient, nice, and very talented! I would highly recommend him!
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Block of four one-hour lessons - $120

Block of eight one-hour lessons - $225

Single one-hour lesson - $35

Block of four half-hour lessons (for children) - $85

Block of eight half-hour lessons - $160

Single half-hour lesson - $25

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