I am a classical guitar teacher and classical guitar performer based in Melbourne, Australia.
My passion is purely and simply for all things classical guitar.
I am a Committee Member of the Classical Guitar Society of Victoria (CGSV), a performer in the CGSV Guitar Orchestra, the Society’s social media “bod” on Facebook and Twitter, MC extraordinaire for the Society’s tertiary student Twilight Recitals on Sunday afternoons and soon-to-be conductor for a Training Orchestra for the 2013/14 season. Phew! Exciting times!
My background
I started studying the guitar in the UK at the relatively ripe old age of 13 or 14 (after having first studied piano and clarinet), with the great British guitar pedagogue Peter Nutall.
Moving to Australia, and after a bit of a hiatus from the guitar, I continued guitar performance and pedagogy studies with the well-respected (and one time teacher of Slava Grigoryan) Ron Payne. I then continued on my higher level studies with the inspirational Ben Dix of the Melbourne Guitar Quartet. I’m proud to say that Ben is still currently my mentor and teacher, helping to lead me towards my AMusA performance diploma and beyond.
Objective of this blog
One of my key objectives for this blog is to help others – help you – if and where I can, sharing my own lessons learnt and experiences, to shape and follow your own path of learning on the guitar.
Other stuff
I am also a member of the Association of Music Educators (Vic), aMuse, as I feel it’s of the highest importance to continue my own professional development so I can be of the greatest service to my own students.
And in line with this philosophy of mine, I’m also well on the path to becoming a fully qualified and accredited life coach. This is so I can help my students even further in setting goals, understanding their preferred methods of learning, facing challenges and developing resourcefulness to face those challenges, becoming more proactive in handling problem areas in learning, playing and practice and ultimately achieving those desired goals in the most efficient and effective way possible.
Want further advice, help or lessons? Then drop me a line! I won’t bite….
If you think I could assist you further, on more of a one on one basis, then please send me an email with your contact details and we can have a bit more of a chat.
You have a nice blog and good ideas to help students and teacher. I have nominated you for the Blog of the year 2012 award. If you do not already know what needs to be done, you can find the instruction in my last post. Good luck!
Thank you very much! That’s very kind of you
It’s so nice to know that you enjoy the blog! And thanks for the repostings on your own site too.
Nicole
Hola Nicole !!!
Speak to you soon.
Antonie Field here – great to meet up the other day and wow, what a great blog – well done!
Look forward to contributing and checking out what happens here.
Antonie
Thanks very much
I am seriously truly humbled that you like the blog – thank you. 
Keep up the good work – educating future Classical guitarists is a great thing to do, as it is an instrument we love so dearly. But I do see a terrible curse falling upon us Classical guitar lovers, which must be combatted, and that is the curse of TAB. I am very surprised that (at least here in the UK) so many people are simply refusing to learn to read music and only learning to play guitar through TAB Understandable in rock guitar or accoustic guitar, where music is less nesscasary, but now it’s beginning to take hold in CLASSICAL guitar! Theyre are now Classical guitar book available in TAB as well! Do you find this a very bad development? And do you have a strategy of dealing with this? I hope you will join me in trying to reverse this sad development. I hope that reading “proper” music is still alive and strong over there,
Thanks for the comment and really glad you like the blog
You’ll be pleased to know it’s a tab free zone here!!
Nicole
Nicole, I have nominated your WordPress for a Liebster award!
See instructions at the bottom of this page here: http://zombieminstrel.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/1565/
Hi, Such a pleasure to read about your passion for Classical Guitar. I would really like to feature you on our hobbies website, and introduce Classical Guitar as a new hobby to our visitors. Hope you may be interested in helping us. cheers, Graham…..www.yourhobby.co.uk…..
Hello Graham,
thanks for your message.
Always happy to help – drop me a line at nicole@nicolelouiserogers.com with some details on what it is you need help with.
Thanks,
Nicole
Excellent blog!! Nice to meet you…
Thanks – glad you like it. And thanks for reading!
Nicole