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| Instruments: |
Guitar
Piano
Keyboard
Bass
Drums
Vocals
Music Theory |
| Genre/Style(s): |
All Styles |
| Ability Levels: |
Beginners to Advanced |
£23 for a one hour lesson if paid in advance or if it's the first one; otherwise it's £26.
I do travel out for an additional fee.
Length and frequency of lessons are flexible.
Students can choose to learn any or all of the instruments I teach. They do not have to own an instrument - e.g. a drum kit - to spend part of their lesson learning it.
I teach drums and vocals at Beginner level only.
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Music is not nearly as complicated as it is made to seem by the standard systems of notation and nomenclature and by standard music theory. These are badly mistaken.
• The 12 tones in our note system are all used equally in music and all require a place on the stave and an alphabet letter for a name. The black and white tone-pattern of the classic keyboard is not there because seven of the tones are more important than the others; it's there to give each tone a visual identity.
• Note duration is actually measured in beat-value, and there is actually no such thing as semibreve-value except in a bizarre system of notation that has a time signature rather than simply having symbols for all the durations. Why on earth would you want to change the value of all the duration symbols? When the meter changes from 'simple' to 'compound', the beat does NOT lengthen, it gets divided into new divisions, and the new durations require their own symbols.
• Actually, duration is not best indicated via different kinds of note and rest symbols. Besides the fact that this method presents a lot of symbols to learn, it is restricted in what kind of pitch notation it can be used with and it also restricts the possibilities of the only pitch notation it CAN be used with. We need simple notations for all the durations, not single symbols.
• The bass clef should have been given the same order of tones as the treble clef.
• A pitch-stave should have a line-pattern that gives each tone its own visual identity - not only to make it much easier to read but to allow it to extend to any range of pitch, just like a keyboard.
• A keyboard stave should indicate where the notes are located on the keyboard.
• The 'melodic minor scale' is a not a scale, it's a weird, very unmusical exercise involving two different scales. The fact that the Associated Board have teachers teaching it to total beginners instead of the natural minor scale is a scandal.
Those are just some of the mistakes being made, there are numerous others.
The first proper pitch-stave was invented in 1819 by L. D. F. Dumouchel. The first proper rhythm notation system was invented in 1997 by me and part of a simplified musical reference system I devised that same year which I call, funnily enough, Simplified Musical Reference, or SMR. I have been developing it ever since.
I began teaching musical instruments in 2000, using my SMR notation. I teach standard pitchtone and chord names - as these are in such wide use, but make students aware of the SMR ones. I teach with what I call 'Semi SMR' notation, which is SMR notation that incorporates standard chord names.
There is no problem teaching with an alternative notation system because the majority of today's musicians don't actually use the standard pitch-stave/rhythm notation, and the standard guitar tab and chord-name notation only differ from the SMR versions by not having any rhythm details. The fact that my pitch-stave shares the same basic design as that of two well established systems that have a lot of sheet music available - Klavar and Ambrose - also helps. Rhythm details are often not needed, so a good deal of my notations for students are conventional ones, and I often give them notations printed straight off the internet, just making corrections to these where needed.
I do teach the standard pitch-stave/rhythm notation to those who want to learn it, but only after they have learnt the SMR system, so that they are not given a warped and overcomplicated view of music that may make them give up. I do also teach grades if requested, but I will not teach these to a beginning music student. The music theory I teach is not just the rules of a bad notation system stated as if it's a good one; I teach the real rudiments of music, and my teaching involves diagrams, slide-charts and data-wheels.
I am able to teach students to play any songs or pieces they like and not make them learn any they don't like. I teach them to play by ear, by memory and by notation.
I've been playing keyboard since age 7 and guitar since age 10. I studied music at Los Angeles Musicians Institute and Cambridge Anglia Ruskin University, I studied graphic design at Lowestoft College School of Art & Design, Newcastle College of Arts and Technology and Cambridge School of Art. I have been designing and inventing music teaching devices since 1988. I have been teaching guitar and music theory since 2000, keyboard since 2001, bass and vocals since 2002 and drums since 2003. I play a variety of musical styles, and the music I make is generally instrumental and in the funk and ambient ripple field.
My name is pronounced 'Dave Montaig'. 'Deive' is from Deiven.
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