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  1. Pentatonics and beyond: improvising in popular music
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 19 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  David Harrison
    Study how to improvise in popular music. These two practical sessions are for players of any instrument. Get to grips with improvisation in this exploration of common scales and approaches to improv in pop, rock, blues, folk and jazz. We’ll look at blues scales, pentatonics, extension notes and more to help you get the most out of your improvisation.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00
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  2. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £299.00 Concession £209.00
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  3. Jazz piano: introduction
    Course start date:  Thu 24 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Della Rhodes
    Meet the jazz idiom as you explore time feels and harmonic progressions at your piano. For pianists at grade 5 and above, with some knowledge of chord structures (triads and 7ths), this session in our pianos room will give food for thought and practice.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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  4. Full fee £39.00 Senior fee £39.00 Concession £39.00
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  5. Excel: analysing your spreadsheet with pivot tables
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 24 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)

    Tutors:  Aurica Jalba
    Learn how to create and edit pivot tables to analyse large lists of data with multiple views and calculated fields using drag and drop. You should have a good understanding of Excel.
    Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £47.00 Concession £38.00
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  6. Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00
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  7. Opera appreciation: an introduction
    Course start date:  Thu 24 Jul 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Pauline Greene
    What is opera? And how do you approach watching and listening to it? Explore the ostentatious, sometimes overwhelming, world of opera through study of two major works and styles.
    Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00
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  8. Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £45.00
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  10. Japanese calligraphy: Shodo / peace and harmony
    Course start date:  Thu 31 Jul 2025 (and 1 other date)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Chikako Nakagawa
    Come and experience the calming effect of writing Japanese with a brush on a large scale. Shodo is an aesthetic and artistic calligraphy skill used to write the Japanese language. You need to have basic knowledge of the Japanese writing system.
    Full fee £29.00 Senior fee £29.00 Concession £29.00
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