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Check Out Our New Vocal Coach Mal Working with one of Year 10 students
Posted: 07/10/14
It has been another great day for our Ilkley students. I put Mal, one of our new Vocal Coaches, on the spot by asking her to accompany on the Guitar with one of our outstanding Year 10 students and I also asked Mal to impro some harmonies. Great rendition, first attempt! This particular student will be famous one day!!!
Read more »Reece Lesson 4 Bass Guitar
Posted: 07/10/14
Wow ….look at the progress Reece in Year 3 is making on the Bass Guitar. Here he is in lesson 4 where he is using RH walking fingers, crossing strings and fretting LH on a C. Rhythmically Reece is also listening to the backing drum track and varying straight quavers with a syncopated feel which echoes the rhythm of the […]
Read more »Spring Term Lesson Dates Now Posted
Posted: 02/10/14
Message for all parents of our students who have instrument, voice or band coaching sessions with us. Or for any of our after school Musical Theatre programmes. Invoices and newsletters for the Spring Term will be issued Friday 14 November. All dates for the Spring Term 2015 can now be viewed for all of our schools by going to ‘Parents […]
Read more »Brilliant first lesson for one of our new Reception Drummers at DMP
Posted: 02/10/14
One of new recruits had a great first Drum lesson today at Dixons Music Primary. Great sense of pulse and RH and LH coordination!
Read more »Dixons Music Primary Student Chief Executive Award
Posted: 02/10/14
One of our fantastic year 2 drummers has now perfected his rendition of a Rock School Grade 4 drum piece and will be playing it to the Chief Executive of the Dixons Group of Schools to try to earn the prestigious Chief Executive Award for Outstanding Musical Progress.
Read more »Sara in Year 6 Grooves on a New Latin Beat
Posted: 30/09/14
Check out the video of one of our brilliant Year 6 girls playing a great Latin groove using a mixture of Hi Hat and Ride cymbals with a funky end section combining rims and drums.
Read more »Reece Plays Noisy Neighbour from the Rockschool Grade 4 Drum Book
Posted: 29/09/14
Reece aged only 7 did a great job of playing along to ‘Noisy Neighbour’ from the grade 4 Rockschool Drum book. He listened carefully to each section and played stylistically and sympathetically to the backing track. He did excellently on his first attempt! Check out the video.
Read more »Reece In Year 3 at Foxhill Starts work on a Piece from the Grade 4 Rock School Drum Book
Posted: 29/09/14
Check out his progress by going to ‘track student progress’
Read more »Foxhill Primary Year 3 Drummers Crack the Introduction to their New Piece
Posted: 29/09/14
It was another superb day of drumming for the Year 3 drummers at Foxhill Primary School. They are currently working on perfecting their piece for the Winter showcases they are involved in. Today we perfected the introduction to their piece. Have a look at their rendition from today by visiting ‘track student progress’.
Read more »Fantastic Work at Dixons McMillan Academy
Posted: 26/09/14
Our tutors Monique, Josie and Malaika began work this week at Dixons McMillan Academy on the new Musical Theatre programme. Students have made a fantastic start on this programme and we hope to be showcasing some of the work at the end of term in December.
Read more »New Band Starting in Ilkley
Posted: 26/09/14
We are delighted to announce that our new Gifted and Talented Band will start rehearsals on Tuesday 3 November at our central venue at Ben Rhydding Primary School. Students have been specially selected to take part in this band based on; their excellence on their instruments in technique, musicality and ensemble skills, an ability to work at the highest creative […]
Read more »The Fantastic Work at Dixons Music Primary Continues
Posted: 26/09/14
See ‘Track Student Progress’ for the latest video uploads.
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