Pratik Zephaniah Subba

Hi, I'm Pratik Zephaniah Subba,

I hold a Bachelor of Music with a major in Music Education.
I spent time on my degree studying how people actually learn an instrument, and the eight years since applying what I have learnt: school-age children, working professionals fitting a lesson into a lunch break, and retirees who'd been told their window had closed. It hadn't.

The biggest challenge for me growing up was finding a good music educator. I learnt what I could from whatever was available on the internet; and we all know the vastness of information there is. I am on a mission to provide professional music education to those who need it and have been doing just that since 2018.

Classical is where my training is deepest.
I teach acoustic and electric too; fingerstyle, chords and song playing, blues and rock vocabulary. What the classical grounding gives you is technique that holds up and the ability to read and understand what you're playing, whichever direction you take it.

My first question is "what do you want to be able to play?"

Then I work backwards from that to where you actually are today, and we close the gap in a sequence that makes sense.

Three things are true in every lesson I teach:

1. Musical independence is the goal.
You'll learn to read and understand music.

2. Personalized learning. 
Every student gets personalized attention and effort: what we're building, in what order, and what you should be able to do three months from now. Repertoire is chosen with you, not handed to you. If you'd like a measurable track, I prepare students for graded examination syllabi (Trinity College London, ABRSM). If you'd rather never sit an exam, that's equally fine and the plan simply changes shape.

3. Practice is designed and fascilitated. 
I'd far rather you do fifteen focused minutes daily than two frustrated hours on a Sunday, and I'll show you exactly what those fifteen minutes should contain.

For adults starting or restarting: you're the most common student I have, and "I'm too late" is the most common thing I'm told. You're not. Adult progress is slower to feel and faster to build than people expect, because you bring patience a twelve-year-old may not have.

For parents: I was taught, as a child, by people who used fear. I don't teach that way and I won't. What your child gets instead is a clear plan, feedback they can actually act on, visible milestones so you can see what you're paying for, and the literacy to keep playing long after the lessons stop.