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Foxhill Year 3 Drum Group Next Stage of their Christmas Piece
Posted: 21/10/14
The Year 3 Drum Group at Foxhill are consistently impressive! Today we perfected the middle section of their Christmas Concert piece and it sounded amazing! We took a Latin feel with the boys mixing semi quaver rim strikes with Snare and Floor Tom strikes whilst the girls maintained a funky little pattern using Toms and Rim Shots. The boys then […]
Read more »Reece : End of Term Achievements on Bass and Drums
Posted: 21/10/14
Reece has had a great term! Check out the videos below to see how far he has come on Bass and Drums. DRUMS Today in Drums we have been perfecting a middle section for his school Drum Group Concert piece. Here we see Reece having learnt a really great Latin feel groove cleverly using semi quavers and giving the effect […]
Read more »Year 2 Students Working on The Christmas Concert Opening Piece at Dixons Music Primary
Posted: 16/10/14
It was a very magical morning today when Alison started rehearsals for the Dixons Music Primary Christmas Concert and the piece, The Little Drummer Boy, that the students will play to open the performance. Have a listen to this piece! Amazing work with the Year 1 and 2 students!
Read more »Wow Look at our Year 1 Drum Superstar at Dixons Music Primary
Posted: 16/10/14
Alison was absolutely blown away this afternoon when she went into Mr Hill’s Drum lesson with one of our up and coming Year 1 Drumming superstars! Here are three extracts of this five year old playing a combination of fly, spider and caterpillars on the Drum pads then on the Drum Kit whilst Mr Hill tried to put him off […]
Read more »Matt is Working Hard on Grade 6 Guitar
Posted: 14/10/14
Wow, Matt is working really hard on perfecting one of his Rockschool grade 6 Electric Guitar pieces. Pieces at this level are not at all easy but here is Matt making it look very easy. Keep checking ‘Track Student Progress’ to see how Matt is preparing for the grade 6 exam.
Read more »Tracking Beni on the Drums: Parradiddle time again!!
Posted: 14/10/14
Beni in Year 7 is doing a great job on the Drums. As part of his preparation for the Rockschool grade 4 Drum exam Beni has to play various Parradiddle exercises. In order to support his development of the Parradiddle technique I have set Beni a 4 part exercise featuring Parradiddles around the Drum kit. See part 1 below where […]
Read more »Burley Oaks Primary School Musical Theatre Performance Wednesday 17 December Showcase Details
Posted: 12/10/14
The Burley Oaks Primary School after school Musical Theatre group will showcase their work from this term on Wednesday 17 December at Burley Oaks Primary School: 5.30pm to 6.30pm. Parents can find all the details…….. Please follow the links: Parents Section- Information for Parents What’s on at Your Child’s School Type in Burley Oaks Primary School The information is there […]
Read more »Excellent Drumming at Dixons Music Primary
Posted: 10/10/14
Here we see another one of our brilliant drummers in year 2 accompanying Katie in year 13 as she learns a very difficult Bass solo to an unusual Flamenco backing. Our year 2 student also featured performing his rendition of a drum part to the Rockschool grade 4 piece ‘Noisy Neighbour’. Great music!
Read more »Year 2 student Drum student at Dixons Music Primary first recorded session
Posted: 09/10/14
Great morning of drumming at Dixons Music Primary. Here we have another fabulous year 2 drummer playing along to one of the Rockschool grade 4 drum pieces ‘Attitude’. He will be playing this with another year 2 student at the DMP concert in December!
Read more »Grade 8 Electric Guitar
Posted: 08/10/14
Grade 8 on any instrument is never easy! But here we have one of our Year 11 students making the opening section of ‘Lead Sheet’ from the Rockschool Grade 8 Electric Guitar syllabus look easy! It is a very tricky opening!
Read more »Year 7 Student Working with New Vocal Coach Malaika
Posted: 08/10/14
One of our year 7 students working hard in a new sing with Mal one if our new Vocal Coaches.
Read more »Great Afternoon of Music in Ilkley See Track Student Progress
Posted: 08/10/14
Yesterday was a great afternoon of Music making with some of our advanced students in Ilkley. Keep up to day by going to ‘Track Student Progress’ to see video footage.
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