Teaching

I provide guitar, bass and musicianship tuition

My lessons encourage you to enjoy playing, express yourself, and grow as a musician.

My home music room where I teach my students

About My Teaching

With over 15 years teaching experience, I prioritise being a friendly, patient and enthusiastic teacher.

Learning an instrument takes time —there are no hacks or cheat codes.

I focus on building your passion for the instrument, while giving you the tools and structure to keep progressing over time.

Beginner lessons

I’ve helped many students through the early hurdles—sore fingers, fret buzz, tricky hand positions etc — with patience and encouragement.
We set clear goals based on the styles you want to play
I’ll ask for your favourite songs and inspirations to use as material to guide you through the early stages of guitar or bass.
Learn chords, strumming patterns, fingerpicking, scales, beginner riffs and solos.
After 10 lessons aim to be able play along to most popular songs

Intermediate to Advanced Lessons

I specialise in helping intermediate players deepen their musicianship and instrumental skills.

I encourage a multi-instrumental approach in my teaching— using the keyboard to help visualising harmony, drumming to help embody rhythm and singing to help internalise melody.

Intermediate lesson focusses include:

Fretboard & Harmony

These lessons are about developing your ear.

Understanding what you are hearing and learning how to play it across the fretboard.

Learn to pick up songs by ear and join in with jams

Move beyond first‑position pentatonic‑boxes
Learn to use familiar chord and scale shapes to follow chord changes.
Expand across keys, positions, inversions and broaden your harmonic vocabulary.
Music theory concepts are only introduced through playing hearing and feeling.

Groove & Rhythm

I specialise in teaching rhythm guitar, and groove-oriented bass.
These lessons focus on developing a strong time feel—essential for strong musicianship

Deep dive into right and left-hand rhythmic techniques
Learn to play the drums through your guitar/bass
Explore groove patterns, claves, syncopation, note length and dynamics

Improvisation & Composition

These lessons help you to develop your intuition and build confidence when improvising and composing.

Learn to shape melodies, build motifs and develop new ideas
Exercises in listening, responding, leading and following.
I offer support with your own songwriting/composition

Each lesson includes:

Written/video recap of key content and what to practice
Personalised resources / jam materials
Flexible learning pace and goals
Opportunity to perform for my other students at the end of term

About My Lessons

Location:

I teach in my home music room in Glasgow Southside, near Crosshill Station
I can also teach online

Pricing:

Introductory lesson - £15
45 minute lesson - £30
Bloc of 10 lessons - £270

If you'd like to book a lesson, please fill out this form!

Reviews

"Mischa is a brilliant, creative and caring teacher. Since taking lessons with him I have been able to play melodies in different keys up and down the neck. He has written tailored lessons to different styles I was interested in. He also makes sure he provides materials that are suited to your learning style. Short videos, artistic diagrams or written notes. I wanted to be taught in the same way you might teach children. Dog step; elephant step. I couldn't recommend Mischa more"

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