Archive for October, 2015
Students in Ilkley Continue with Audition and exam Preparations: Great Progress!
Posted: 22/10/15
Here we re visit some of our students as they prepare for their exam and auditions. Seeing the progress they make from week to week is amazing. Great commitment and great teaching! Well done everyone!!
Read more »Spring Term 2016 Lesson Dates Now Available for Viewing
Posted: 18/10/15
The Spring 2016 lesson dates are all posted now and available for viewing for parents and students. To view 1. Go to the homepage 2. Click on ‘Parents’ – Information for Parents 3. Scroll down to ‘What’s in at Your Child’s School?’ 4. Type in the full name of the school or venue where the lessons occur Invoices and newsletters […]
Read more »Tuned Percussion Work with Year 2 Students at Dixons Music Primary
Posted: 13/10/15
Our new tuned percussion Tom is going down a storm at Dixons Music Primary. The year 2 children are really enjoying learning how to play the Glockenspiels and full sized Xylophones. Here are a couple of examples from yesterday.
Read more »Piano Students are Excelling at Dixons Music Primary
Posted: 10/10/15
It has been a great start to our Music work at Dixons Music Primary. Our Piano students in particular are progressing in leaps and bounds. Have a listen to one of Year 2 students who this week began to apply her music notation reading skills with her developing technical ability on the Piano. Very impressive.
Read more »Tutors having fun at the end of an 12 hour teaching day
Posted: 07/10/15
Moving our evening work this September to the new bigger venue at Burley Oaks Primary School has meant we have been able to take on more tutors to accommodate our ever growing waiting list of students wanting lessons with us. It is fantastic that we are able to open our service up to many more students and since September alone […]
Read more »Year 11 Vocal Student
Posted: 07/10/15
Here we see one of our fabulous year 11 students working on her latest song with Monique one of our Ilkley Vocal Coaches. We are hoping that one day this student will audition for the X Factor! She has got amazing potential!! Hopefully this student will follow in the footsteps of one of Alison’s former students Gareth Gates who Alison […]
Read more »Drum and Guitar Students Preparing for Exams
Posted: 07/10/15
Here we see one of our Year 8 students preparing a Latin piece for his Rockschool Grade 5 Drum exam. In this extract the student is listening to the backing track through his headphones. Check back in two weeks to hear the full mix and the final section of this piece which is an improvised section. The second example is […]
Read more »Ilkley Year 7 and 8 Students Preparing for Grades 1 and 2 Exams
Posted: 07/10/15
Our keyboard and Piano students are working really hard towards their grade 1 and 2 Piano exams coming up at the end of November. Have a listen to work in progress. We use a variety of Music exam boards for Piano and Keyboard exams including Rock School, The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and Trinity/ Guildhall. Here […]
Read more »Ilkley Students Preparing for Exams
Posted: 07/10/15
We have been working our students in Ilkley very hard this term as some of them prepare for Music College and University auditions and some are preparing for their graded Music exams. To view work in progress in our lessons please go to the home page and click on Track Student Progress in the bottom right hand corner. As in […]
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