Lee Wyatt-Buchan - Tutor/Founder
Lee learnt the guitar in his teens playing both guitar and bass guitar in bands during the mid and late 90's. He has 15 years experience of playing, performing and writing music. His real passion is songwriting having written many songs including a recorded album mainly specialising in song structure and lyric writing. Lee has performed at many venues having been part of the Oxford, London and Birmingham gig circuit during the 1990s and early 2000's.
'I wish something like the school of rock was around when I was a youngster. To learn key areas of music such as song structure and how to make a song catchy would have been great. Our guys attending the rock school are already learning more than I did by the time I was 20! The first time I went into a recording studio was when I was 21 years old, some of our guys are 6 years old and have already recorded their first song... amazing!'
Lee's favourite genre of music is punkgrungebluesgothrock with a hint of folk.
Sandy Chalmers - Tutor/Founder
Main Instrument: BassSandy studied sound engineering and gained his experience in South East London. He has worked for and run his own successful studios there.
After a brief stint (7 years) in a bhuddist monastry to find himself, he's now here in West Oxfordshire, eager and enthusiastic to pass on his years of experience to
the young and keen.
Aldie Chalmers - Tutor
(Volunteer )
Favourite music: Improvised Jazz/rock & funk fusion.
Aldie has played guitar for 35 years and his passion hasn't diminished in all that time, in fact it's increasing. If he had his way, everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, would play a musical instrument and express themselves daily through the deep joy of playing music.
Aldie's mantra is 'Keep perfecting your technique, it will free your soul to fly'.
Mark Crozer - Chipping Norton WSOR
Mark has been involved in the music industry since the late 1980s. He has written and recorded solo albums; performed live on television and radio; engineered, mixed and recorded bands; produced and promoted compilation albums and even spent time booking and publicizing artists’ tours. Since 2007 he’s been playing with The Jesus and Mary Chain which has taken him around the world and onto stages in front of huge festival audiences. He also plays in two Oxford bands: Chambers of the Heart – an improvisational rock band and International Jetsetters whose debut EP was released in 2008 to critical acclaim receiving airplay on over two hundred radio stations in the USA and UK stations such as BBC 6 music and BBC Oxford.
Images of the Guys Helping the Young Rockers out.
