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Ilkley Students Continue to Make Amazing Progress
Posted: 02/02/16
Check out a range of music lessons taking place in Ilkley filmed last week. Go to ‘Track Student Progress’ to see the great work.
Read more »Summer Term Teaching Dates Available
Posted: 02/02/16
The teaching dates for the Summer Term in all of our schools are now available to view. To see these please proceed as follows: 1. Go to the Learn to Rock homepage: www.learntorock.co.uk 2. Click on Parents (information for parents) 3. In the left hand menu click on ‘What’s on at Your Child’s School?’ 4. Then enter the full name […]
Read more »Ilkley Students Continue to Make Amazing Progress in Lessons
Posted: 21/01/16
Have a look at some of the recordings from this week. Our Ilkley students are making amazing progress each week. Here we have some great examples of performance work from our students in years 5 to 10.
Read more »Gareth Grade 8 Bass looms closer!
Posted: 21/01/16
As Gareth’s (Year 12) Rockschool Bass grade 8 exam looms close we have been making musical sense of one of his improvised solo’s. The solo in ‘Dark Matter’ from the grade 8 syllabus is particularly challenging in attempting to make the solo sound fluid and musical whilst concurrently demonstrating a range of solo techniques, finger style, slap, chordal work in […]
Read more »Reece is Grooving
Posted: 12/01/16
Reece had a fantastic lesson yesterday we asked Tom our tutor to come and groove with us. Reece made sure Tom understood the groove first!! Fantastic drumming by an 8 year old!! Check out these great fills using alternate bass drum and toms.
Read more »Reece is Grooving
Posted: 12/01/16
Check out Reece grooving with Tom our tutor. Reece is using some excellent alternate bass drum and Tom fills.
Read more »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!!
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