Track Student Progress
Each term we will be tracking selected students to demonstrate their progress in one to one or small group lessons. Please check again soon for updates.
Ark Eye preparing for their Tour De France Gig
Posted: 20/05/14
Here the boys are working hard on one of their original songs ready for thesummer gigs for Learn to Rock including their prestigious slot at BroughtonHall in Skipton for the Tour De France passing through Skipton.
Read more »Jack prepares for his Rockschool Grade 3 Bass Guitar exam
Posted: 19/05/14
It’s really coming together now for a Jack and his grade 3 Bass Guitar exam. Today we have been working in adding dynamic contrasts in the pieces he is playing and he has got it down straight away. Check out these two contrasting pieces …… Brilliant!
Read more »Bass Guitar Grade 8 student
Posted: 18/05/14
Our superb year 12 Bass Guitar student from the Learn to Rock band ‘Feedback’ diligently works on this difficult slap solo section in one of her grade 8 Rockschool pieces ‘Lead Sheet’. This piece is very technically demanding with shifts in positioning, the incorporation of solo, harmonic and chordal playing and the tempo is fast! Also look at her fantastically […]
Read more »Year 7 drum work : paradiddles !
Posted: 13/05/14
It’s that paradiddle time of year with one of my fabulous Year 7 students. A great technique that sounds funky used as part of a groove and useful in terms of speed and manoeuvrability in terms of fills. This student is very gifted all round as a drummer and he has really got this technique down now ……from today we […]
Read more »Foxhill Primary: Renowned Key Stage 2 Drum Group
Posted: 12/05/14
Here is the piece that these amazing Year 6 students will play to close the show at Foxhill on Monday 23 June. This piece has taken hours of preparation, has been written by the students, neatened by me and perfected by the students. Fusion of Rock and Latin styles using dustbins in the middle section. I am always exhausted after […]
Read more »Foxhill Primary Key Stage 1 Drummers
Posted: 12/05/14
These little guys are amazing! They have had lessons for 9 months now and here they are preparing their piece to play at the forthcoming Foxhill Primary Summer concert on Monday 23 June and at Foxhill’s Arts Day in a Friday 11 July. The piece features a great introduction using unison Hi Hat semi quavers followed by a Rock Groove, […]
Read more »Dixons City Academy: Alison’s advanced drum work with a Year 11 student
Posted: 12/05/14
This grade 6 Rockschool drum piece is really tricky moving from 7/8 to 4/4. An extract from this piece with backing track as this students prepares for the grade 6 exam!
Read more »Bass Grade 3 Rockschool preparation
Posted: 10/05/14
Jack is ready to do his Rockschool grade 3 exam. Students must play their pieces with a backing track. A great intermediate phase after students have got all the notes down and before playing with the recorded backing track is to play their line against another single instrument. Here I am providing a simple chord accompaniment with some unison playing […]
Read more »How Do Bass and Drums Work?
Posted: 10/05/14
Today Jack was learning to lock a simple slapped Bass groove tightly with the Drums. This is a key skill that all Bassists and Drummers must learn if they want their band songs to sound great. Extract 1: uses simple Bass octave patterns over a 3 chord pattern picking out Thumb Slap with the Bass Drum and Finger Pops for […]
Read more »Dixons Music Primary
Posted: 09/05/14
Today the Year 1 Drummers began work on putting together their piece for our Dixons Summer concert on 27 June. We have been working on ‘Call and Response’ featured in the introduction. We have also recently learnt how to incorporate ‘Caterpillar’ fills (semiquavers) using the Snare Drum and the First Tom. This piece, the boys have learnt, is in Ternary […]
Read more »Jack Hendy “My aim is to be the best”
Posted: 09/05/14
Jack Hendy at 10yrs old aiming to “be the best”. Watch out Alison!!
Read more »Grade 2 Electric Guitar Year 8 Student
Posted: 09/05/14
Have a look at one of our Year 8 students playing a couple of his grade 2 pieces. He has only been having individual lessons for 9 months and has worked really hard in such a short time frame.
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