Instrumental tuition

Instrument tuition in Jazz, Latin, Rock and Classical music, is available on
Trumpet, Saxophone, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums, and Latin Percussion.
Lessons are usually 30 mins duration, once a week. We don’t have a lot of teachers and we are
not a music store selling lessons on the side! Your music education is our core business and our
our goal is to bring you the best music lessons and courses in Sydney, if not Australia.
You don’t have to go to New York to learn to play Be-Bop, you don’t have to go to Cuba to learn
to play Salsa. Just come to sunny Leichhardt, in Sydney. 10 mins from the CDB and also very close to
Newtown, Annandale, Habberfield,  Balmain, Petersham and Summer Hill.

What is your teaching philosophy?

Learn an instrumentMy name is Peter Miles Kartu, you can follow that link to find out more about me, but in short, I have been traveling the world playing, teaching and creating music on many instruments, for more than 30 years. I firmly believe in teaching you only what you REALLY need to know to do your job on the band stand. It is very easy to get lost in learning an instrument, there are thousands of things you could be practicing, and I have tried most if not all. My teaching is a distillation of all that experience. I’m not interested just in progress; my goal is THE MOST PROGRESS in the shortest amount of time! Life is short and music is virtually a limitless field of study!

People often ask me how I can successfully play so many instruments. I reply that learning instruments is a lot like learning languages. You learned your first language by trial, error and schooling. It probably took you 10 years of your young life to do it. In high school, in just 4 years, you probably learned to speak French or German. When you got out of school maybe you really wanted to learn Spanish and that only took you maybe, 2 years. The more you learn, the quicker it gets, because once you’ve learned one language you know what to look for. You know for example, that a new word must turn into related verbs and nouns. You know there must be tenses, grammar and so on. I met a university lecturer once who spoke 7 languages fluently, 5 really well and reckons they could master any new one in just 3 months if they wanted to.

Specifically my teaching blends the fundamentals and practicality with creativity and FUN. We will focus on MUSICAL skills such as:

How to get a great sound:
How to shape your notes and have a super strong sense of rhythm and melody.
How to obtain fluent music reading skills FAST.
How to  INTERPRET AND IMPROVISE music in styles such as Jazz, Latin, Classical, Funk and Rock.

In short, my goal is that you become a performer who can deliver the goods, not in the bedroom, but on the bandstand!

How much is tuition?

All private tuition is charged at $30 per half hour, payable by the term.

I teach in blocks of 10 weeks, 4 blocks a year, mirroring the NSW school timetable.

No matter what your musical goals are, you will see solid undeniable progress towards your goals, in just 10 weeks.
That is our benchmark and our promise!

Click here to email us with questions or books or just call me
02 9569 1893 (mornings)
0415 272 158 (anytime)