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.
Foxhill Primary School Drum Group Dynamics Added
Posted: 25/11/14
The Year 3 Foxhill Drum group have added all the dynamics to their drum piece ready for their performance. Today we learnt about the need for light and shade in Music and how to create musical interest by adding dynamics (the louds and quiets in Music). We learnt that as an ensemble when there is a solo part in the […]
Read more »Foxhill Year 2 and Year 3 Drum Groups are Ready for their Christmas Performance
Posted: 18/11/14
It was a very productive day yesterday at Foxhill Primary School. The Year 2 and Year 3 Drum groups are now ready and just polishing their pieces for the Foxhill Christmas Concert on Monday 15 December. Just now to perfect the Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 Drum groups next week and we are ready to give a spectacular performance at […]
Read more »Arul tries a grade 4 Drum piece
Posted: 14/11/14
Arul aged 8 played excellently to a grade 4 Rockschool drum piece today ….. He learnt the sections and kept in great tine to the backing track…… The bonus was that we all had our ears protected including me, Mum and brother….. Happy days with a very gifted student!!!!
Read more »Grade 8 Bass Guitar this Week
Posted: 13/11/14
This week two of our top Grade 8 Bass Guitar students have been working on a simple groove using E min, D maj, C man and B7. We applied a Flamenco accompaniment alternating with a nice Bossa Nova pattern. In the video extracts below we see Katie experimenting with dissonance and resolution ( as Mrs Baker teaches to our little […]
Read more »Drum Demo at Burley Woodhead
Posted: 13/11/14
The Drum demo at Burley Woodhead School was great! All the children in the school were entertained by our Drumming. We had Jack Hendy in Year 9 with us who held his own with the Learn to Rock Drum tutors! In addition two of our Drum students at Burley Woodhead each played one of their Debut Rock School exam pieces […]
Read more »Our Classical Guitar Work
Posted: 11/11/14
Learn to Rock also works extensively with children playing the Classical Guitar and to great effect. Have a look at just how far one of our Year 5 students has come in just 7 lessons. The first example is one of his grade 1 pieces played with a traditional accompaniment. The second example features Jonny, the tutor, adding a Flamenco […]
Read more »Ilkley G and T Band First Recording
Posted: 11/11/14
The guys in the new Ilkley band have been rehearsing hard and after only two weeks of being together check out how great they sound! We even had MAL our new vocal singing with them!!!
Read more »Foxhill Drummers Preparing for Children in Need and Look North
Posted: 11/11/14
We worked very hard yesterday at Foxhill in our Drum rehearsals preparing for our non stop Music day on Friday 14 November in aid of Children in Need. Also in the hope that Look North will pop into our rehearsing on Friday to feature us as part of the evening news that night. Have a look at the amazing Junk […]
Read more »Our Year 1 Dixons Music Primary Drum Students
Posted: 08/11/14
We had a great day on Thursday at DMP in our Drum lessons as we continued to prepare for our Christmas concert on Friday 12 December. Two of our Year 2 students were working on their grade 4 renditions of Noisy Neighbour as can be seen on the video below. But one of our Year 2 students performed superbly to […]
Read more »Beni Parradiddles Part 3
Posted: 05/11/14
Over the last few weeks we have been featuring Beni in Year 7 on the Drums as he prepares for his Rockschool Grade 4 exam. As part of this exam, Parradiddles play a big role in terms of extending a students’ technical ability. It is really challenging to get Parradiddles fast and sound even and smooth. To that end I […]
Read more »Arul is Preparing for Grade 1 Drums
Posted: 27/10/14
Wow!!!! Arul had a fantastic lesson today. After only starting to learn the Rockschool Grade 1 pieces three weeks ago Arul put two of the pieces with the backing tracks today and did excellently in maintaining a steady pulse, using the correct techniques and remembering all of the other technically demanding aspects such as syncopation, opening and closing the Hi […]
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