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AGENDA FOR FREE MUSICAL WORKSHOP
Saturday - 20 February 2010
10.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Springfield Methodist Church
Bispham Road Blackpool at the side of The Squirrel Public House >>
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DETAILS | TOPIC |
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| All attendees to sign in. Please fill out form: | Event opens Musical Instruments that are available by BMA'S |
Names of the Tutors On various instruments | 10.00 | |
| 1 | Welcome | Chairman starts event | John Shaw | |
| 2 | Family musical workshops etc | Guitar / Drums / Keyboard Instruments loaned by B.M.S |
Phil Roberts Chris Holland/Robert Lee/Alex James | 10.30 To 11.00 |
| 3 | Second workshops | (Flute / please bring your own instrument
on this) Drums / Piano/keyboard |
Veronica Flete/ Robert Lee/Amy-Stretch-Parker/Jim Lomas | 11.10 To 11.40 |
| 4 | Third workshop | Over 50s Keyboard Max of 7 in class /Piano/Drums others | Amy Stretch-Parker/Robert lee/ Alex James | 11.45 To 12.15 |
| 5 | Word from the chairman | Chairman gives speech opens Buffet |
John Shaw | 12.15 onwards |
| 6 | Fourth workshop | Mixed group guitar drums Keyboard Flute Piano any other instrument | Blackpool music school tutors | 1.15 To 1.45 |
| 7 | Finish with Jam altogether |
All instruments and students/tutors etc | Phil Roberts /Robert Lee etc | 2.20 To 2.50 |
| 8 | Raffle | Chairman draws raffle closes event | John Shaw Draws raffle thanks all the staff tutors and the community for their input event closes | 3.00 |
All Age Groups are Welcome from seven to the Young at Heart & Disabled:
Avoid disappointment -Spaces are limited - please book your time and instrument early; either through the contact page or email: info@blackpoolmusicacademy.com
The above venue is available with FREE Buffet and refreshments subject to availability.
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BLACKPOOL MUSIC ACADEMY ------------ Click here for the Academy shop
registered charity No 1120716
Tel: 07887873309 or 01253 807978.
ACADEMY HITS THE RIGHT NOTES!!!
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In September 2007 the academy was granted £7500.00 for the children of the community to learn a new skill in music.
Part of this grant also enabled us to offer graded exams to all students that attend the Academy. We're pleased to let you know that 7 pupils all passed the exam with marks of 75% to 88% - 1 pass was with distinction and 1 with a merit.
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Drum Tuition Update from Robert Lee Tutor
A quick update - November 2009.
After only a few months the Drums are now going strong. Already The students
are progressing at a great rate and have just entered six of the students
into the next rock school grading.
The addition of the new electric drum kits have been excellent for the students to experiment on, and are great for adjusting to different specifications for the size of the student (For example, Dania, is around 8 years old and is too small to reach the pedals on an acoustic kit, but on the electric kit, she's already playing full beats and progressing at an amazing rate for such a young student.)
Obviously, having two kits allows us to teach two students at the same time, but at present organising the students into pairings hasn't happened due to students being at different levels of progression. Recently we have had a couple more students join, and having quickly getting them to a point where they too can start going in for grading, we will soon be able to start placing the students into grading pairs. Hopefully this will happen by the end of the year.
As for the future of the drums, I am currently creating a catalogue of music that the students can start learning. Learning music they like is crucial to keeping the interest of the student as drum beats can be quite monotonous. As I can imagine its quite hard for students to listen to modern music, especially with families in hardship, I have been thinking of the purchase of cheap mp3 players that we can either give or subsidize to the students. This way they can bring their personal Mp3 players to each class where I can supply them with any tracks, be it a band that they like or a piece of grading music, that they can take with them and have the ability to listen and learn from music more often.
In the long term, I would like to create a loose syllabus based around the rock school grading material and modern music in order to create an interesting and accessible teaching guide in which we can bring an additional drum tutor in and enlarge the drum section into classes of four to six students. This way we can bring the cost of lessons down to make this project more accessible to those who can’t afford the current costs. By the word loose with the syllabus, I mean creating an optional route for the tutor to choose when teaching in order to accommodate to the students needs.
All in all, I am so pleased with the progression of the students, and
the interest they have in learning, and I am proud to be more involved
in a charity that offers these services to children and adults. Something
I have recently found with those that haven't normally been able to do
music, is that they take to it with a passion, which is a great joy to
see.
Robert Lee
The academy covers most instruments. We have eight highly qualified tutors plus one assistant tutor; you can read about them in the 'about us’ page. We have many choices for learning for example a session of one to one in the academy, or for those with special needs we come to you.
Music can be learnt as a leisure learning activity or you can go down the more formal exam route to get internationally recognized qualifications and hopefully reach a high grade. We teach from the ages of 8 years to 100.
Anyone needing information should ring --- 07887873309 or 01253 807978
Thanks for visiting and we look forward to seeing you.
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