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Great Exam and Christmas Performance Preparation in Ilkley
Posted: 10/12/15
The students in Ilkley are continuing to work hard with exam preparation and Christmas performance work. Check out the following extracts with one of our year 4 drummers working in a very tricky Latin grade piece and one of our fabulous Year 6 Clarinettists working on her Christmas music.
Read more »Gareth Prepares for his Grade 8 Bass Exam
Posted: 17/11/15
We have been working on many aspects for Gareth’s Grade 8 Bass exam preparation. Here we see two of his three pieces at different stages. The Shuffle piece is almost polished. We have been working on the detail of dynamics and articulation. The Heavy Rock piece featured here was the first time played with the backing track. We still need […]
Read more »Reece Learns How to Create Gaps in his Improvisations
Posted: 17/11/15
Many students, whilst improvising, think they have to fill every gap or silence in their music. It is an important technique to learn how to create those gaps to allow the listener to digest what is being played. Today Reece began to learn the art of not overfilling his Improvisations by using a simple question and answer technique. Here are […]
Read more »Jack Prepares for his Grade 6 Drum Exam
Posted: 03/11/15
Jack is working really hard on his Rockschool grade 6 drum exam work. He lives Latin style pieces and therefore did not shy away from the difficult piece Flavella in the grade 6 book. He has almost got all the sections perfected still some sections to really perfect and tidy up to get a top mark but here is the […]
Read more »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 […]
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