Udi Glaser

Q: Do you take complete beginners?
A: Yes. I’m happy taking beginners. Sometimes I even prefer beginners as I can teach the right techniques straight away, without the need to break bad old habits. Usually self-taught students or students of inadequate teachers acquire flawed right and left hand techniques unfortunately.

Q: What is your method of teaching guitar?
A: I build a custom made programme that would fit the student’s goals and needs. If you think you don’t have any goals and just want to play a bit and have fun, that’s also an honourable goal and I’ll just aim towards that. Just let me know what kind of music you’re into. I usually incorporate a bit of music theory in my lessons as well as encouraging my students to create music of their own.

Q: What kind of styles and genres do you teach?
A: Over the years I’ve dubbed with almost any possible music genre and style and therefore I can teach almost everything. From classical guitar grade exam preparations, through acoustic singer-songwriters songs to electric guitar shredding.

Q: What should I bring to the lessons?
A: 1) Your guitar. 2) Yourself. 3) A music notebook or a folder for A4 papers. 4) smartphone/camera if you wish to take a short video at the end of the lesson – it really does help when practising at home.

Q: What is expected of me as a student?
A: Three important things: practice, practice and more practice. If you don’t have a minimum of 20 minutes a day to practice – learning guitar is probably not for you. Learning a new instrument or progressing to more advanced levels requires time to practice. There’s no other alternative or a hidden secret to learn guitar quickly yet (there might a quicker way when we’ll become cyborgs…).

Qualifications:

M.A. Music Psychology in Education, Performance and Wellbeing / University of Sheffield (studying), Advanced Orchestration course / Berklee College of Music, Specialist Certificate – Orchestrating and Producing Music for Film and Games / Berklee College of Music. *Granted a scholarship in the name of guitarist Jeff Beck, Sound Engineering Diploma – Sound for Live shows and Recordings / Sound College, B.A. in Musicology / Tel-Aviv University