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About Ford
Ford is a professional folk musician who regularly tours the UK and has teaching experience in a wide variety of settings. As well as teaching privately since completing his degree in music, Ford teaches creative music-making workshops at the National Centre for the Folk Arts, is a peripatetic guitar teacher in a primary school, and has experience working with SEND children in schools. Ford is a flexible and responsive teacher. He always tries to respond to the needs of each individual student, finding their strengths and working on their particular interests. He is very passionate about music, having spent many years exploring different instruments and genres through writing and performing his own music.
Teaching in Guitar
Ford teaches Guitar from beginner to advanced students of all ages.
Ford will build his lessons around each student and is happy to be directed to their interests and goals. He will focus on technical skills where necessary, but his strengths as a teacher are in developing listening skills through teaching by ear and encouraging students to develop their confidence in playing with other musicians.
He might do this by teaching songs that the student has requested, even without existing notation to work from, and exploring what resources can be used to learn the song, or even turn it into a piece for performance, perhaps as a duet for teacher and student.
Ford has Grade 8 RGT acoustic guitar and is happy to explore other grading options with his students, e.g. Rock School, classical grades.
Teaching in Tin Whistle
Ford teaches the classic high tin whistle, which is not only a great instrument for beginner musicians looking for an intro to Irish/Scottish traditional/contemporary folk and children with no instrumental experience, but also a highly expressive instrument for advanced students, with challenging techniques to master. There is a wide range of keys and sizes for students to explore, and Ford will encourage intermediate and advanced students to take the challenge of learning low D whistle (which is his primary performing instrument), and extend the possibilities and expressiveness of their playing.
Ford prefers teaching by ear and by demonstration and he believes this is an important and valuable musical skill, particularly for tin whistle, but always adopts a flexible approach, and can use traditional or alternative n...
Teaching in Guitar
Ford teaches Guitar from beginner to advanced students of all ages.
Ford will build his lessons around each student and is happy to be directed to their interests and goals. He will focus on technical skills where necessary, but his strengths as a teacher are in developing listening skills through teaching by ear and encouraging students to develop their confidence in playing with other musicians.
He might do this by teaching songs that the student has requested, even without existing notation to work from, and exploring what resources can be used to learn the song, or even turn it into a piece for performance, perhaps as a duet for teacher and student.
Ford has Grade 8 RGT acoustic guitar and is happy to explore other grading options with his students, e.g. Rock School, classical grades.
Teaching in Tin Whistle
Ford teaches the classic high tin whistle, which is not only a great instrument for beginner musicians looking for an intro to Irish/Scottish traditional/contemporary folk and children with no instrumental experience, but also a highly expressive instrument for advanced students, with challenging techniques to master. There is a wide range of keys and sizes for students to explore, and Ford will encourage intermediate and advanced students to take the challenge of learning low D whistle (which is his primary performing instrument), and extend the possibilities and expressiveness of their playing.
Ford prefers teaching by ear and by demonstration and he believes this is an important and valuable musical skill, particularly for tin whistle, but always adopts a flexible approach, and can use traditional or alternative n...
