Brief History -

Hi,

My name is Nirvana, and I am originally from Nepal. For those, who don’t know, Nepal is a small, beautiful, and hilly landlocked country right in-between India and China. I grew up there and later moved to Australia to pursue music as a career.

I started playing guitar at around the age of 12 and have been captivated ever since. Since I was predominantly a self-taught guitar player in my formative years, my approach to music and guitar has been very empirical. I have been performing since the age of 12 and started out as a rock guitar player. I eventually found myself playing prog rock/metal and finally transitioned into gypsy jazz and other various forms of jazz and fusion. Even though I feel like I have a lot to learn and work on as a guitar player/musician, I feel like I am at a stage where I have a lot of cool stuff to share with other fellow guitar/music lovers. I graduated from the Bachelor of Music Course at Excelsia college in 2021 and am currently studying The Master of Music Course there. In Sydney, I have found myself performing in a lot of different styles and venues such as wedding and corporate events, worship music at the WIN stadium entertainment centre for the LIVE festival, jazz shows at various jazz clubs with Ms. Stone and the Velvetones, various Nepalese restaurant such as Gali Gali at town hall, chulo at Harris Park, various Nepalese rock fests etc. I am also very active in studio session guitar work with various artists in Nepal and play regularly for pop projects and movie scores in the Nepali scene in both Australia and Nepal. A recent session I did for the new Coca-Cola ad in Nepal with my good friend and music composer Utpal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ9H-E9LZW8

Invitation to learn:

Music has always been a language to me. Let us embark on this journey to learn and understand the language of music together and in doing that lets understand this beautiful instrument we call guitar. For those who are curious to know if my real name is Nirvana or not, come ask and say hi :)

My Educational Philosophy -

As a teacher I believe my job is to show my students the immense possibility of music and guitar. Guitar can be an incredibly complex instrument and I hope to help my students deal with this instrument in the easiest way possible. Being a self-taught player in my earlier years I have had to deal with a lot of the plateaus that musicians struggle with and have been fortunate enough to figure my way around these problems. I wish to share every piece of knowledge I have with my students and help them develop and find a voice in the instrument. I further wish to offer music theory, Sight reading skills to my students. I also try to encourage my students to regularly bring in songs they love, as learning material that is familiar to the student encourages daily practice.
I love teaching any form of music, ranging from rock, pop, jazz, gypsy jazz, fusion, funk, prog rock, metal, Nepali traditional etc. My goal is to get my students playing and understanding the styles they love and ultimately being able to create or improvise in that context of music or ensemble. The ability to listen to what is happening musically in the moment and create from within has always been the overarching focus of my teaching philosophy.
I have also had extensive experience in teaching students of all age groups and am aware to adapt my teaching methods to the students learning process.

Some Videos-
https://www.instagram.com/nirvanabista/

check this video out of me playing my composition when I was around 13 years old. (almost 1.5 years into playing guitar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeG2qpPHMx8
few of my fav sessions I played in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtVrWYy15K4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVTNGdnRoDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3SSXtZbWN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9gzXyDJR2k

check out a shred jam I did with a fellow guitar player
part 1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0kxmdJQW2I&t=0s
part 2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJFE5JgbzgA

an impromptu jam with Dan at the gasoline pony (another one of the teachers at the Learning lounge)
https://www.facebook.com/673247575/videos/734999854207065/