Take Music lessons with Sarah F. - For great music lessons you need a great music teacher!

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From £16.86 / 30 min.

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About Sarah F.

Sarah teaches in Birmingham from her home (B30) or online and teaches on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Sarah has 15 years of teaching experience teaching privately, working for music services and schools, and creative music projects. She also works as an artist and art teacher delivering workshops to adults and children. She has several years of experience working with young people and adults with additional needs and she really enjoys the creativity involved in tailoring lessons to individuals to best suit them.

Sarah graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with a Masters in Instrumental studies (violin), and Birmingham School of Art with a BA Fine Art (Hons). Sarah believes strongly in a creative and flexible approach to instrument learning, incorporating the individual student’s interests, goals and unique learning styles, and she encourages students to find and follow their own musical interests.

Teaching Violin and Viola
Sarah teaches Violin and Viola from beginners to advanced students of any age. If students wish to take grade exams Sarah can take students through ABRSM and Trinity syllabuses, although there is no pressure to take any exams if the student doesn’t want to! Sarah will teach fundamentals such as good posture, technique, tone production and tuning, connecting these to expressive and creative building blocks such as musical understanding, ear training, scales/modes/finger patterns, improvisation and composition if the student finds these interesting.

Sarah also teaches beginner piano (up to grade 3) and Music Theory (up to grade 5).

Genre
Sarah specialises in Classical, folk and contemporary music, being a regular performer of all 3 genres.

First Lesson
First lessons will vary depending on the age and ability of the student, however every first lesson will begin by getting to know the student, their aims, interests, commitments and existing musical understanding. After this the lesson will include some work on the instrument, whether playing a piece, or simply learning to hold the instrument and make a sound and would usually include some playing from Sarah to help the student hear what they are aiming towards. The goal of the first lesson is have the student leaving feeling excited about what they are about to be able to do!

Beginners
Beginners should ideally have their own instrument, although it is possible to borrow one during the lesson as a trial (full size violin only). Nothing else is necessary - books and worknotes will be made during the first lesson and can be bought after consideration and advice from Sarah, unless the student already has some. Learning an instrument is really rewarding, but can also be tricky and working outside your comfort zone can feel intimidating - please don’t worry! There are no expectations of ability or musical knowledge; everyone can learn an instrument and everyone, no matter how talented, has to start from the beginning so lessons will always start with the very basics and work upwards.

Reviews of Sarah F. 5

Created at 14/06/20

Tisa P.

My 12 year old son has just finished his first block with Sarah and she is amazing. Super friendly and easy going as well as really knowing her stuff. Shes helped him build his confidence as he has not long started and gets easily frustrated with himself and with no schools open (co-vid) its been very hard finding a tutor to continue his lessons, let alone one that's good enough to make sure he doesn't give up and affordable! He is very comfortable with Sarah and she will now continue to be his violin teacher, even when he goes back to school. He even says he doesn't want to stop sessions with her so I cant argue with that as he his really enjoying it. Shes given us some great advice too along with links to some help with the basics including pictures and where to buy useful books and spare strings and if I have any questions, I can ask her whenever I want. Even I have learnt how to change the strings and tune them. Its great! The set up for lessons online is really easy too. You just log in on the music tutors website and go to your dashboard. On there you will see all the lessons you have booked with Sarah in date order and you just click on the one for that day and straight away a page opens where your webcam and mic will be turned on and you will see Sarah waiting and away you go. Easy peasy! Once the session has finished you just close that window and that will turn off your webcam and mic. I think its a great set up and music tutors are very helpful too if your unsure of anything.

Created at 05/09/20

Sarah S.

Sarah is fantastic! Thomas has come on leaps and bounds in confidence and ability since working with Sarah. We are absolutely thrilled.

Created at 25/09/20

Aminah N.

Sarah Sarah was lovely, understandable, supportive and very professional. I love the way she makes my son feel comfortable and full of confidence to improve. Kind Regards

Created at 30/01/21

Noemi S.

Sarah is absolutely wonderful! She is a great, inspiring teacher, always patient and encouraging! She always goes that extra mile to explain me things, helping me tuning my violin and encouraging me throughout the challenging times of my learning process! I am so grateful I found her, she truly is an important part of this journey of fulfilling my dream of playing the violin! :)

Created at 06/05/21

Wai S. N.

My daughters have been with Sarah for almost a year now and have made excellent progress. They really enjoy the lessons.

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