Roz Cardenas

Hi,

I’m Roz. I’ve been teaching guitar for 15 years across a variety of settings and to pupils from all kinds of backgrounds. Whilst my current work is primarily in primary schools, I have enjoyed teaching retired individuals, teenagers starting their first bands, and all kinds of people in between.

I always ensure to make lessons fun and – particularly for younger students – incorporate purposeful games into the lessons. This ranges from target-shooting at correct rhythmic patterns to ‘hook a duck’ sight reading. Grown-ups are welcome to play, too, of course.

I believe music learning should be a pleasure and have a friendly, student-centred approach. Want to do grades? Fantastic. Want to write your own songs? I’m happy to help. Want to play along with confidence to the music you’ve always loved? I’m here to show you how.

Outside of my teaching work, I’ve performed live since I was a teenager and have spent many years fronting my own alternative/punk/psychedelic/art-rock band. With this band, I’ve written and recorded more than 50 songs and I continue to enjoy creating and performing original music all around the UK.

Whilst I’m happy to teach all ages, I specialise in 7-11 year-olds. From 2020 to 2025, I completed a PhD, researching the musical attributes that 7-11 year-olds can find engaging in musical learning and I utilise the findings from this research within my teaching practice.