Over two resources James Manwaring is investigating cloud-based digital audio workstations: this month the focus is BandLab. BandLab is a free online digital audio workstation (or DAW) that allows...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
The third movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A, K622 is a study piece for AQA’s GCSE Area of Study 1. The study of this piece will allow students to study not only the Classical style but also...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
For some students, instrumental jazz can seem like black coffee compared to the milkshake of pop. It still has a reputation of being hard to access and appreciate, particularly post-swing. This...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
This resource will take you through the process of teaching improvisation and composition within a class setting, working with students with different abilities and little improvisatory experience....
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
This is the second in a series of resources to help students develop their understanding and experience of music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods, and from the 20th and 21st centuries....
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This will act as a summary introduction to the subject area, to whet the appetite and start placing the main styles in their contexts, with suggested listening and a playlist. Following the examples,...
Jonathan James Teaching Materials
In part 2 of this two-part resource, I will look at further development of reading skills and musicianship, learning pieces with understanding, and amassing a bank of repertoire, rather than just...
Edward Maxwell Teaching Materials
During the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns in the UK, I have led several interactive online composition projects. This resource shares practical advice gained from this experience, examining the...
Richard Barnard Teaching Materials
This resource aims to give you some ideas for teaching great music lessons, whether remotely, through a ‘blended’ approach, or even back in the classroom – whenever that might be.
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
This is the fourth stop in our World Tour series, which began over a year ago and has so far visited the Caribbean, Latin America and China. This month we explore some of the vast and diverse...
Simon Rushby Teaching Materials
This resource looks closely at rhythm from both ends – the aural, non-notated, knowledge-of-music end, and the notation-based, knowledge-about-music end. Ideas for unpicking rhythm including learning...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
Rimsky-Korsakov, a Romantic Russian composer and inspirational orchestrator, said that ‘to orchestrate is to create; it cannot be taught’. Let’s hope he was wrong, at least on that last point.
Jonathan James Teaching Materials