John's Individual Study programme is open to all, and is usually taken over a series of four to eight lessons.

Whatever the student's current level of playing ability, John's diagnostic skills ensure that the student is given personal insight into their playing and the saxophone, connected to work appropriate to their personal development and next suitable goals - whether that be general study, entry into higher education, undergraduate and postgraduate levels or continued professional development.

His understanding of the different outcomes and results the students want for their playing in whatever genre of music are connected by his profound understanding of both the musical and technical aspects of saxophone playing, as well as thirty five years of professional solo playing experience at the highest level.

Improvements and progress in the following areas are guaranteed with a series of individual lessons:

• easy and immediate response over all registers
• correct intonation over all registers
• even and open sound over all registers with a variety of tone-colours
• clear and even articulation from slow to extremely high speeds
• a relaxed approach
• stamina