Gergo Daroczi
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About Gergo Daroczi
With Gergo, you will learn to play & reconnect with who you are through music, guidance and deep personal transformation.
Gergo is an experienced Professional Private Music Tutor and Music Well-being Mentor with over a decade’s experience in teaching how to play the guitar, piano, singing, write songs and learn about music technology and music production for complete beginners to intermediate learners from ages 5+. One to one sessions are delivered in a fun and interactive way to help build confidence in playing, performing, understanding music theory, vocal techniques and original composition skills.
The music industry can feel like a place where musicians are judged and validation is something a lot of people look to get from an audience. Gergo helps people express their emotions, learn about themselves through music, increase their self-esteem and to validate themselves giving them the power they already have within using his compassionate mentoring style he developed during his Youth Support Worker years working with YMCAs.
As an independent musician, the skills Gergo has gained from playing with other professionals, studies at universities and other courses such as Estill Voice Training allows him to tailor lessons to individuals’ needs to armour his students with knowledge and technique.
ISM registered (Independent Society of Musicians)
As a self-employed Professional Music Tutor, Gergo believes in connecting with people on a deeper level practicing a compassionate and motivating teaching style that helped to get not just the best out of his learners for over a decade, but his first professional and personal award in 2021 at the YMCA England & Wales Youth Matters Awards for being the Young Worker of The Year during lockdown where Gergo chose to continue working to support communities by setting up his own home recording studio and showing people how they can do it too via online lessons.
As seen on BBC, Gergo was one of 5 workers who BBC Bitesize Careers met with to create a short film on their jobs and the impact they have had on young people in the UK. (Please message Gergo to watch the video as links don’t work in profile biographies)
Lesson delivery is mainly focused online though Gergo also offers house visits within 10 +/- miles in Swansea, SA5 for an additional £5 travel cost per lesson.
Experience
With over 10 years of experience in not just teaching but also using music as an engagement tool to support at risk children, young people and adults with additional learning needs, Gergo excels in delivery and has 20 years of experience in composing, recording and playing live professionally in bands, duos, trios & solo projects such as weddings, hen parties and other private acoustic events.
Your lesson plan
Prior committing to block lessons, a FREE 30 minute consultation session is advised to ensure learners are happy with the lesson plan tailored to them!
Bonus
As an addition to teaching how to play instruments and singing, Gergo offers to help learners how to setup their own home recording studio and shares industry standard knowledge after studying audio engineering & record production for 5 years and being around artists for over two decades. Using ProTools as his choice of audio production software, Gergo educates learners on original composition, recording & mixing techniques as well as how to release a song and distribute it to Spotify and many other streaming platforms.
Education
– Bachelor of Science with Honours Degree in Music Technology, University of South Wales
– Level 3 Award in Education & Training, Agored Cymru
– Level 3 Community Music in The Workplace, Agored Cymru
– Level 3 Award in Youth Work Practice, Agored Cymru
Additional Certificates & Training
– Estill Voice Training Level 1 & 2: Figures for Voice & 6 Qualities
– Community Music Practice (Goldsmiths, University of London)
– Youth Mental Health First Aid (Mental Health First Aid Wales)
– Children’s Rights and Participation for Young People (Children In Wales)
– Lone Working & Personal Safety (Swansea Council)
– Autism Aware Scheme (Public Health Wales)
All certificates, safeguarding & child protection policy and code of conduct are available for you to see on request 🙂
Teaches
– Basic guitar & ukulele chords & scales
– Beginner piano pieces from sheet music (lesson 1 to Grade 1)
– Vocal techniques (‘support’, larynx, vocal folds, effort, pitch & more)
– Hierarchy of songs’ needs (songwriting from Zero to Hero!)
– Drum beats, fills, grooves, your favourite songs taught from drum sheet music
– Setting up a home recording studio
– Recording Techniques
– Mixing & Mastering Techniques
– Creative lyric writing techniques
In the styles of
Acoustic, Rock, Pop, Funk, Soul, Country, Blues, Metal, Electronic Dance Music
Who Gergo has helped so far and how
• Ages 5 to 60 online & in person
• Complete beginners guitar & piano (introduction to chords, patterns, melodic & rhythmic structures, song-writing, lyric-writing & music theory)
• Complete beginners drums (from tempo work and basic fills to learning how to read sheet music and rehearsing with tutor to get a feel for what it is like playing with someone/in a band)
• Singer/songwriters (understanding the basic anatomy of the voice, singing techniques & vocal distortion techniques)
• Grade 8 classical students (composing original songs, edit MIDI and how to record & mix original audio and virtual instruments)
• University & college students (supporting with the understanding of each module and criteria, compositions, live performances & tempo management)
• Young people with challenging behaviour (part of Gergo’s work at YMCA Swansea for over a decade face-to-face & online including supporting young offenders, at-risk children & neurodiverse people)
• People in need of support with confidence, stage presence and well-being (part of Gergo’s well-being sessions where music listening skills and one-to-one discussions are encouraged to reflect on personal experiences. Having open ended conversations with a mentor to find emotional blocks helps with tapping into the mind-to-muscle connection required for singing, writing organic, heartfelt lyrics and building confidence to accept your voice to step on stage or the recording studio to be YOU:)
Lesson prices
Gergo’s Terms & Conditions
To cancel or reschedule a Free Consultation or a Paid Lesson, at least 24 hours of notice is required prior to the Free Consultation or Paid Lesson is scheduled to start. If cancellation happens under 24 hours, there will be no option to schedule a Free Consultation again but to book a Paid Lesson. There is only 1 Free Consultation per person. Regarding Paid Lessons, if the client cancels under 24 hours, the Paid Lesson will be marked as paid & delivered due to short notice. There is no additional fee for cancelling under 24-hours, but the price of the purchased lesson already made meaning there will be no refund for a missed lesson due to short notice. There is no additional cancellation fee for a Free Consultation or Paid Lesson.
If a student wishes to cancel throughout a pre-paid course, the student can do so up to 24 hours before the next lesson is scheduled to start and will be given the money back for the remaining lessons that have not yet been delivered.
In case of student lateness for a 30-minute booking, Gergo will wait for 10 minutes before leaving the classroom and the lesson will be marked as paid and delivered. In case of student lateness for a 60-minute booking, Gergo will wait for 20 minutes before leaving the classroom and the lesson will be marked as paid and delivered. In case of a student emergency, Gergo is open to discuss what the emergency is and offer a make-up lesson at no extra cost within reason.
In case of Gergo being late, he will always offer to extend the lesson so that it runs the full length if the student is available to do so on the same day or will offer to reschedule at no extra cost as a make-up lesson. In case Gergo does not attend without a 24 hour notice due to emergencies, technical difficulties or natural disasters, Gergo will always offer a make-up lesson at no extra cost.
In case of emergency, Gergo will always offer a make-up session at no extra cost.
Children under the age of 16 years old will need a parent or legal guardian to communicate for them and setup & purchase lessons. The parent/guarding is not required to sit in during the lesson however to login & start the lesson it is something of the parent/guardian’s responsibility to help the child with.
Video recordings and screen shots are not permitted otherwise it is agreed with Gergo in writing. The use of course material such as audio/video practices, contents of presentation documents that may include Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and otherwise created course material’s digital sharing with third parties or it’s use for teaching/presenting are not permitted as they are only for the learner to use to practice and learn to.
It is the learner’s duty (or the learner’s parent/guardian if the learner is under 16) to make sure that any equipment used on their persons during online and/or in person lessons are safe, working correctly and are setup to use in a safe environment to the learner. Gergo will hold no accountability for any of the above failures that may cause injury to the learner, loss or damage to their equipment and/or their environment/property.
Please note, an annual price increase between £1.50 to £2.50 occur every April 1st depending on government guidelines and updated living cost rises.
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