Matteo Ciminari

Guitar teacher

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Guitar Lessons for absolute beginners to advanced

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About

Matteo Ciminari is a musician, teacher and composer based in South East London offering private guitar lessons in London and online, in Italian and English.

Matteo graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz from Italian Conservatory “Giovanni Battista Pergolesi”

He has 20 years experience as a guitar teacher offering guitar lessons in London and Italy, teaching students of all ages and levels. He also taught in private and public schools.

As a performer and composer he has several publications at his name and as a session musician. He played at many festivals and venues and his music has been used for commercials, radio and television. He also won several prizes as composer, guitar player and theremin player.

Guitar lessons in London or online

Matteo is available for one to one tuition both in person, in the area of London, and on-line.

The guitar lessons are organised according to the level and the age of the student, you will be able to choose to be trained on playing your favourite tune or to get into more specific topics such as:

  • Studying a specific music style (e.g. rock, pop, funk, jazz, metal, classical, …)
  • Chords and scales
  • Music theory
  • Ear training
  • Playing technique
  • Composition
  • Soloing and improvisation
  • Reading notes and TABS
  • Recording and FX techniques
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FAQ

Most frequent questions and answers

Nothing can substitute the tips and directions you can receive from an expert guitar teacher. Nowadays it’s very easy to find any sort of free lessons or video courses on the internet. The incredible advantage of having a guitar instructor is to have a personal guidance without loosing time and energies to find your learning path.

As much time as you like! Playing music is something we do to fulfil our life, studying music is something we do to enjoy our passion in a deepest way. When you put passion in your life then the “time concept” becomes something else!

The one that appeals to you! On a starting level every guitar is good but you have to keep in mind the music styles you like the most to learn and think about the sound you have in mind!

Written music is a tried-and-tested way to “speak” between musicians.

However there are many ways to communicate musical ideas, for the guitar we can use tablatures, chord charts and schemes. Professionals usually can read/write music at least on a basic level but hey, have you ever heard of Jimi Hendrix?

Music comes first, theory is something we use to organize and summarize in our brain the situations that happen in music. We use music theory as a practical way to “crack the code” of the various styles and genres.

Of course I can, depending on your level I will teach you how to play all your favorite songs. It’s really important to analyze songs especially for discovering and studying new techniques and approaches. Learning other’s song is a fundamental device to get a vocabulary, the main goal is to develop your own voice.

I teach rock, pop, metal, indie, jazz, progressive, blues.

Improvisation is one of the most amusing things that we can do in music (and in life!) so I definitely encourage to learn improvisation.

Most of my guitar lessons last 1 hour. However I’m happy to accommodate your needs for shorter or longer classes.

I require 48 hours notice to cancel a guitar lesson. Where this is not given, the lesson fee is charged in full.

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