I have been working with young people at Hamstead Hall school to create a piece to be showcased at the CBSO centre next month. We had loads of fun using a melody I composed and enhancing it using reggae beats and jazz chords. The biggest challenge was to motivate and encourage new players- making the [...]
February, 2008
Exciting Job Advert from Media Snackers
“MediaSnackers is a site/weblog/project/call to action for anyone interested in young peoples’ consumption and creation of media across the globe”. They are looking for new trainers;
How to make it as a musician?
Whilst flicking through an improvisation manual written by Sid Peacock- I came across a couple of paragraphs under the header: ‘So you want to be a Musician!’ which struck a chord in me. In the ‘Practical Steps’ section when discussing going to music college I read: “If you go to music college you will most [...]
Shejays
As I mentioned before Sister 45 and I like to collect funk 45s. There are quite a few collectors on the scene and many seem to congregate at Fryer-mantis forum. It can be quite intimidating to post there, as some of these collectors own 7 inch records worth thousands of pounds and have been collecting [...]
Music Learning Live 2008 (Classroom of the future)
After bemoaning the lack of documentation of Music Learning 2008 I came across this from the guys at Synergy.
W7
Music consumers can download for free and the artist still gets paid!! This could be used in some future projects. Would young musicians be happy with splitting profits 50/50 with W7? It could be quite useful in a music project where young people were motivated by selling their end product. It could serve to encourage [...]
Music Learning 2008
Music learning live 2008 kicked off yesterday in Gateshead and so far I have not managed to find one weblog or website that gives a brief synopsis of the day’s findings. An interactive section would have done the world of good- where music teachers and community musicians could comment on how the day progressed. It [...]
I live in Digbeth baby
The first year of living round here was uninspiring to say the least. Mainly to do with the lack of greenery, large cranes and scaffolding opposite as well as the drilling that would promptly awaken me. A few days ago, I had an interesting chat with Andy from Substrakt about the state of things in [...]