“Richard is an accomplished bass player and educator. His methods encourage students to be self-motivated and knowledgeable bass students. Richard is highly informed of a range of bass methodologies, while also having a clear vision of the consistency and diligence required to become a versatile bass player and musician. I have been studying with Richard over a period of three years and have benefited greatly from his clear instruction – not to mention his patience and good humour.”

“It was truly a great experience to spend some time with Richard. I think he is quite quick to identify where the areas of opportunity in your playing are, and he tries to tailor the program to those things you struggle the most with. In my case, it was building up practice habits and practice exercises, and he gave me a bunch of options to choose from and showed me how I could derive my own routine from exercises that have worked for him. On top of just the theory-related stuff, he’s a hell of a guy and he makes the classes very fun and oriented around the players and genres you enjoy. I could not recommend him enough.”

“Richard taught my teenage son bass guitar. I was impressed by how quickly my son advanced. Richard has a beautiful temperament and clearly has a very musical soul that rubs off onto students. I have been a musician for 30 years and I highly recommend him for musicians at any level.”

“Richard is an exceptional teacher with an extremely high level of musical skill, but just as importantly, he has a fantastic manner: patient, encouraging, thoughtful and genuinely invested in his students’ progress. From the very first lesson he took the time to really listen to what I wanted (improving technique, starting to read music, and re-learning scales etc), and every lesson since has been focused, purposeful and tailored directly to these.

One thing that really sets Richard apart is his commitment to non-rote learning. Rather than just giving you tabs and sending you on your way, he makes efforts to help you understand deeper which has massively improved my grasp of music theory in a very short space of time. The quality of his teaching resources is also outstanding; most of them are self-written and very clearly structured, making it easy to build on each lesson and practice effectively between sessions.”