Southampton Guitar Academy
Southampton, Hampshire
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Southampton, Hampshire
(18)
Whether you want to learn for fun, or you are a serious musician looking to take your playing to the next level, we offer friendly, professional tuition to help you achieve your guitar playing dreams.
Unlike most other music teachers you benefit from a complete "all you can eat" lesson package and support that go's beyond the lesson time the studio.
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18 customer reviews
Matthew Surgeon
Marcus is an inspiring and passionate teacher who encourages you to develop your own interests and provides you with the guidance to do so.
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James Dyke
Marcus is an exceptional guitar tutor. He combines excellent ability, enthusiasm, sensitivity of students needs, and progressive teaching techniques. He has transformed by son’s guitar learning experience from something that ‘had to be done’ to something he is genuinely excited about. It’s been transformative! Marcus has done this by taking a careful and thoughtful approach to what would work best for what my son wants in terms of progression. This means lots of rock guitar and examples of shredding solos! The use of software is very productive. Games and tutorials maintains interests will building solid skills. The progress has been remarkable. More importantly my son has reconnected with his love of guitars and music. I would highly recommend Marcus as a guitar tutor. More...
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James
Marcus is an exceptional guitar tutor. He combines excellent ability, enthusiasm, sensitivity of students needs, and progressive teaching techniques.
He has transformed by son’s guitar learning experience from something that ‘had to be done’ to something he is genuinely excited about. It’s been transformative!
Marcus has done this by taking a careful and thoughtful approach to what would work best for what my son wants in terms of progression. This means lots of rock guitar and examples of shredding solos! The use of software is very productive. Games and tutorials maintains interests will building solid skills. The progress has been remarkable.
More importantly my son has reconnected with his love of guitars and music. I would highly recommend Marcus as a guitar tutor.
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Reply from Southampton Guitar Academy
Hi James, Thanks for your recommendation. I am very happy to hear that my lessons have helped your son reconnect to his love for music and guitar. He has made excellent progress in these last couple of months, and look forward to what is possible over this next year. Marcus
JamesD-887
Marcus is an exceptional guitar tutor. He combines excellent ability, enthusiasm, sensitivity of students needs, and progressive teaching techniques. He has transformed by son’s guitar learning experience from something that ‘had to be done’ to something he is genuinely excited about. It’s been transformative! Marcus has done this by taking a careful and thoughtful approach to what would work best for what my son wants in terms of progression. This means lots of rock guitar and examples of shredding solos! The use of software is very productive. Games and tutorials maintains interests will building solid skills. The progress has been remarkable. More importantly my son has reconnected with his love of guitars and music. I would highly recommend Marcus as a guitar tutor. More...
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Martin Green
Marcus is a brilliant guitarist with infinite patience, attributes which contribute to his excellence as a teacher. He has very positive approach and will always find a way forward when you think you have hit a brick wall. His laid back style enables lessons to be very flexible, you can learn to play the music you like, or follow a structured course, or meander anywhere between. The results are rewarding and good value. More...
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Duncan Smith
Marcus Richardson is an excellent effective music teacher and a mesmerising guitarist with a captivating range of inspiring skills. When searching for a Guitar teacher online, I was impressed with Marcus’s profile on the MusicTeachers.co.uk website, particularly his emphasis on the importance of having the right motivation and structure for learning, practice, and progress in between lessons. I met Marcus for an introduction and initial Guitar lesson in June 2018. He showed a positive in-depth interest in my reasons for wanting to learn Guitar, and my aspirations as I returning to studying music after a gap of 20 years. This thoughtful approach helped to ensure a learning style that was suitable to my level of music knowledge. I like Marcus relaxed down-to-earth manner, dry sense of humour, and entertaining use of metaphor, which has helped me grasp a series of physical techniques for arm, hand and finger dexterity. Marcus’s teaching methods put me at ease, providing encouragement and confidence based on progress measured by clearly structured practice routines and challenges each week. Marcus is able to blend physical teaching of the Guitar with informative and stimulating elements of relevant music theory. His experience and expertise has definitely broadened my knowledge and appreciation of music history, technology and instrumentation. All crucial components in my opinion to inspiring any music student to always strive consistently for improvements. I recommend Marcus’s services whole-heartedly to any keen guitarist and music lover. More...
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Dave Summerton
Marcus has been great! Absolute beginner to learning new songs every week. Brilliant, a great teacher!
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Lee Goodwin
I have been learning with Marcus for the past few months. I have found he is a very patient teacher and the information he puts across is easily retained. I would highly recommend him to anyone just starting out in Guitar like me. More...
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Matt Masters
Marcus is well informed, very focused on helping me achieve my goals learning both acoustic and electric guitar. His structured approach ensures you master the basics first to ensure bad habits don't inhibit your playing later on.
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Damian Murphy
As an online colleague Marcus is extremely interested in furthering himself as a teacher and ensuring the best teching outcome for his students
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ChrisE-80
Marcus has been an excellent guitar teacher for me. He showed me countless exercises to develop many different technical aspects of my playing, and taught me a lot of scales and patterns for me to use in my own solos. He always provided me with plenty of material to practice each week, and I have really seen my skills improve a great deal thanks to his lessons. More...
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Simon Dawson
I've been a student of Marcus for more than 5 years. Marcus has great breadth and depth of knowledge and passes this on in a very easy going manner. He employs a variety of teaching methods and is happy to follow either a structured syllabus for grades or a less formal structure. The lessons are fun, I enjoy every session and my guitar playing has improved enormously. What more is there to say?! More...
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Amanda Lees
My son has been learning guitar with Marcus for about 18 months. He really enjoys the lessons and Marcus' friendly teaching style. He has also learnt a lot and taken/passed his grade 2 guitar exam. More...
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Liam Farlow
Marcus is a great, understanding and approachable teacher. I have been self taught for 4 years and after a couple of months of lessons with him I have improved faster than ever. Great value for a prestige service
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Rafael Perez-Torro
Marcus is a very nice and dedicated guitar teacher. I enjoyed his lessons for almost a year. Southampton Guitar Academy is definitely the way to go if you are looking for a fun learning environment. He makes you learn by playing your favourite songs while at the same time introduces you to theoretical contents. Totally recommend it!! More...
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Huw Davies
Marcus is not only a great guitarist but also has an in depth technical knowledge of the music theory behind it and can teach it at a rate the student can absorb without being overwhelmed or bored. With Marcus' help I've made great progress over the past year and look forward to seeing how far my playing will have progressed in the next year. More...
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Jonathan Bulpitt
Marcus has been teaching my Daughter the guitar for just over a year now.
She has shown great progress over this time. This is down to his excellent knowledge and teaching abilities.
His lessons are interesting, fun and relaxed but at the same time he encourages her to move forward and expand on skills learned. He also promotes the learning of Music as a whole and not just the guitar. He has some great computer programmes to assist. I highly recommend SGA!!!
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William Durrant
Marcus is an exceptional teacher with versatile skill. He is patient while eager to teach. During my time with Southampton Guitar Academy my playing advanced through the structured, educational yet relaxed way that Marcus teaches. I thoroughly recommend Southampton Guitar Academy and can assure you will receive excellent tuition under Marcus Richardson. More...
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What do you love most about your job?
It is a real joy and honor to be in a position where I can pass on my knowledge and love of music and guitar playing and help those that take lessons with me to become better musicians
What inspired you to start your own business?
After working for several years as an employee for schools and music tuition services I saw a gap in the market. Whilst many teachers and services provide lessons for their students, I wanted to go a step further than that.
I saw an opportunity to create a service that supports my students, not just during lesson time, but also between lessons (where most of the progress takes place). You can find out more about my approach to teaching and the support available between lessons at my website www.guitarlessonssouthampton.com
Why should our clients choose you?
Instead of using this space to sell my service, it would be more beneficial for you to look at feedback from other students and parents that have used my service and make a decision for yourself.
If you type "Southampton Guitar Academy reviews" into a search engine such as Google, you will find several sites where customers have left their feedback on my lesson service.
