New students at Towc Rock School

Since the start of the new academic year I have had a couple more children start lessons, all going very well! We had a lovely family day for new people to come and register, where already established bands could perform some of their songs on stage to an audience of friends and family. The weather was stunning so it was a very enjoyable day on the grass listening to them all perform their sets

Starting song writing workshops in primary schools

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I'm putting together a program to deliver songwriting workshops for children. Primarily it would be for use in primary schools, a class would be mentored for the whole day.
Firstly, the children draw a mind map of a theme for the song and come up with ideas for lyrics. Then, after some funky, upbeat warm ups they start developing ideas for the song. Whether they want to sing, say or rap the words, it is left totally up to the children. Beat boxing is also quite popular :-)
The end product from the day would be a professional cd of their pop song recording making use of every single child’s voice. It would be recorded, mixed and mastered entirely by me.
The second track on the cd is an instrumental version which can be used if the children want to perform their song singing live.

(All parts and tracks for the songs are inputted, written and recorded on Logic Pro 9)
Exciting! Watch this space...