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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 »Gig Update ‘Warme’
Posted: 10/05/14
The up and coming Bradford based band ‘Warme’, featuring our very own Drum tutor Dan Hudson and one of our ex students Bassist Macauley Haywood (and the band with whom our Jack Hendy, year 8 student from Ilkley) jammed with a few weeks ago are performing at various venues over the summer. Check out their website for more details: http://www.warmemusic.com
Read more »‘Warme’s’ latest official Video
Posted: 10/05/14
Check out Bradford band ‘Warme’, featuring Learn to Rock Drum tutor Dan Hudson and ex Learn to Rock student Macauley Haywood on Bass, latest official video ‘Monday Comedown’ on YouTube.
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 »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.
Read more »Dixons Music Primary: Learning About Musical Phrases Using Ukulele
Posted: 09/05/14
Today Mrs Baker began work on how to understand Musical Phrases. This will lead to understanding about Form in Music. Check out two of our 5 year olds playing a recognisable tune on their Ukuleles each taking a phrase. Also look at the brilliant right and left hand articulating and fretting technique.
Read more »Dixons Music Primary Outstanding Tuned Percussion Work
Posted: 09/05/14
One of our amazing all round musicians aged 5 playing a great ostinato pattern on the slit drum with Mrs Baker. Fantastic timing and look at her excellent stick technique.
Read more »Advanced Drumming
Posted: 09/05/14
Have a look at the talented Jack Hendy aged 12 here preparing on Drums a version of Animals by Muse for our Ilkley Central summer concert at Ben Rhydding Primary School on Saturday 12 July. Difficult piece in 5. D3488ABDDC6B”codebase=”http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab”width=”128″ height=”240″>
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