Music
City Lit offers a wide range of part-time, evening and weekend music courses at many levels to suit your needs and aspirations, with highly sympathetic and motivated teachers. You can learn to play a wide range of instruments (or further develop your skills), explore jazz, learn or improve your singing and work in our professionally-equipped music technology studio. We are passionate about helping you to learn music and find the right music class for you - please talk to us about which course or level would suit your needs and about the various performance opportunities available.Find out more about our music courses, by coming to one of our advice sessions or contacting us on 020 7492 2630 or email music@citylit.ac.uk
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- A celebration of Gilbert and Sullivan`s operettas
- A history of jazz piano
- A history of jazz piano: from blues, to boogie woogie, bebop and beyond.
- A promenade around the Proms
- American revolutionaries: minimalism, Broadway and jazz
- Britten's Gloriana and Strauss's Capriccio
- Exploring classical music
- Gilbert and Sullivan: Utopia Limited and The Grand Duke
- Handel`s London
- Haydn and Mozart in London
- Inside the BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Korngold - from child prodigy to the Oscars
- Mavericks in their anniversary years: Verdi, Wagner, Britten
- Music appreciation: George Frederic Handel and Susannah
- Music for the ballet
- Progressive rock: Sgt Pepper's children
- Schubert's song cycles
- Silver screens, golden scores: King Kong to Koyaanisqatsi
- Singing in Western Europe 1
- Singing in Western Europe 2
- Singing in Western Europe 3
- Tchaikovsky - an international nationalist!
- Wagner and Schopenhauer
- A fast-track introduction to Sibelius software
- A short introduction to Sonic Arts
- Ableton Live plus: advanced techniques
- Ableton Live: Djing and performance with Martin Delaney
- Advanced composition - experimental techniques
- An introduction to audio synthesis and sampling
- Composing with your environment: spectral techniques for analysing everyday sounds
- Make your own beats and backing tracks
- Max/MSP advanced techniques
- Mixing and advanced music production techniques
- Music for film - the process
- Music production with Ableton Live
- Music production with Cubase
- Music production with Logic
- Musicians - how to make recordings of your live performances
- Pro Tools and recording studio practice
- Pro Tools fast-track
- Pure Data starter: sound and vision
- Reason plus: creative tips and tricks
- Vocal recording techniques
- Advanced song lyric writing for popular music
- Composing music for performance
- Essential ear training
- Explore jazz harmony
- Exploring harmony 3
- Jazz course year 1
- Jazz course year 2
- Jazz course year 3
- Jazz course year 4
- Jazz harmony and ear training 1
- Jazz harmony and ear training 2
- Jazz: woodshedding for all
- Mark Bassey's original tunes
- Music theory: grades 3-5
- Music theory: grades 4-5
- Music Theory: Grades 6-8
- Music theory: grades 7 to 8
- Musicianship for singers
- Musicianship: sounds and symbols 1
- Musicianship: sounds and symbols 2
- Musicianship: sounds and symbols 3
- Song lyric writing
- Song writers: finish that song
- Song writing: form and function
- The Kodaly method of music education
- The rhythm class
- Theory and composition for absolute beginners
- Vocal musicianship level 1
- Vocal musicianship level 2
- Writing song tunes
- Advanced piano workshop
- Blues piano
- Get to know your piano
- Improvisation for pianists: level 2
- Introduction to piano harmony and improvisation levels 4-6
- Introduction to piano harmony and improvisation levels 7+
- Introduction to piano playing
- Jazz piano 1
- Jazz piano 2
- Jazz piano 3
- Jazz piano introduction
- Jazz piano taster
- Jazz piano transcription
- Keyboard harmony with elements of improvisation 1
- Latin piano taster
- Learn to play piano in the summer
- Learn to play popular classical tunes by summer
- Piano repertoire
- Piano workshop level 3
- Piano workshop level 4
- Piano workshop level 5
- Piano workshop level 6
- Piano workshop level 7
- Piano workshop level 8
- Piano/keyboards level 1
- Piano/keyboards level 2
- Piano/keyboards level 3
- Pop piano 1
- Pop piano 2
- Pop piano 3
- Pop piano taster
- Prepare for pop piano
- Progress in piano playing
- Revision for foundation and level 1 pianists
- Revision for level 2,3, and transition pianists
- Second steps in piano playing
- The art of accompaniment
- Transition to piano workshop
- Advanced string ensemble
- Afro-Cuban big band
- Beginner string ensemble
- Beginners' cello: taster
- Blues harmonica for beginners
- Building a string performance
- Cello level 1
- Cello level 2
- Cello level 3
- Cello taster: part 2
- Cello: advanced workshop
- Chamber music ensembles
- City Lit Big Band
- Clarinet chamber ensembles
- Clarinet level 1
- Clarinet level 2
- Clarinet level 3
- Clarinet level 4
- Clarinet: advanced workshop
- Classical guitar level 1
- Classical guitar level 2
- Classical guitar taster
- Drumming 1
- Drumming 2
- Drumming 3
- Fingerstyle guitar workshop
- Flute level 1
- Flute level 2
- Folk and pop guitar 1
- Folk and pop guitar 2
- Folk and pop guitar 3
- Free improvisation: sax
- Intermediate drumming
- Intermediate string ensemble
- Introduction to Big Band playing
- Introduction to drumming
- Introduction to string ensemble playing
- Introduction to tabla
- Jazz clarinet
- Jazz drumming
- Jazz flute
- Jazz guitar 2
- Latin percussion 1
- Latin percussion 2
- Orchestral workshop
- Polish your string quartet playing
- Recorder ensemble
- Samba day
- Saxophone 1
- Saxophone 2
- Saxophone 3
- Saxophone 4
- Saxophone ensemble
- String quartets
- Tabla
- The City Lit wind ensemble
- Ukulele for beginners
- Ukulele improvers
- Violin and viola level 1 - term 3
- Violin/viola advanced workshop
- Violin/viola level 1
- Violin/viola level 2
- Violin/Viola level 3
- Violin/viola level 4
- World groove and jazz drumming
- A cappella singing
- Advanced singers' workshop (performance)
- Advanced singers' workshop (Song)
- Basic technique for solo singing
- Choral singing for pleasure
- City Lit a cappella
- City Opera
- Consolidate your singing
- Develop your singing
- Easy opera - French
- Fundamentals of the singing voice 2
- Golden age of English song
- Improvisation for jazz singers
- Introduction to jazz singing
- Introduction to music theatre
- Jazz singers' workshop 2
- Jazz singers' workshop 3
- Jazz singing 1
- Jazz singing 2
- Jazz singing 3
- Jazz vocal improvisation
- Music theatre 1
- Music theatre 2
- Opera performance workshop
- Overcome stage fright (for singers)
- Prepare for opera
- Professional singers' workshop (performance)
- Rock, pop and soul singers' workshop 2
- Rock, pop and soul singers' workshop 3
- Rock, pop and soul singing 1
- Rock, pop and soul singing 3
- Rock, pop and soul singing for beginners
- Rock, pop and soul singing: beginners
- Sight-sing through sol-fa: 2
- Sing 'La belle Hélène' from scratch
- Sing 'Les Miserables' from Scratch
- Sing a cappella
- Sing Gilbert and Sullivan
- Sing oratorio
- Sing the blues
- Sing the songs of yesteryear
- Sing with confidence
- Singers' rehearsal sessions
- Singing for absolute beginners
- Singing intermediate 1
- Singing intermediate 2
- Singing Mozart accompanied recitatives
- Singing: find your voice - folk and gospel
- Singing: find your voice - general
- Singing: find your voice - music theatre
- Taster for classical singing workshop
- Technical singing workshop for experienced singers
- Two's company: sing duets
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Music for film - the process For composers, producers, writers and directors interested in the process of making music for film
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