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- Pentatonics and beyond: improvising in popular musicCourse start date: Sat 6 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David HarrisonStudy how to improvise in popular music. These 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 £109.00 Senior fee £109.00 Concession £76.00 - Piano practice and memorisation: levels 3-5
Course start date: Mon 8 Jul 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Shelagh SutherlandThe perfect course for pianists of level 3-5 standard who would like to streamline their practice and improve their memorisation skills.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £62.00 - Piano/keyboards: revision for levels 1 and 2Course start date: Tue 9 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ana Claudia MagalhaesReinforce your basic piano skills, improve your reading, hand co-ordination and technique. This course will revise key topics from City Lit level 1 and 2 piano syllabus and is a great opportunity to keep learning throughout the summer!Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Music theory: introduction to score readingCourse start date: Tue 9 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Trish ShawLearn to navigate diferent types of classical music scores, analyse musical features, and identify style and period. Suitable for those with music theory knowledge at equivalent of ABRSM Grade 5 and upwards.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Guitar fingerpicking: American folk stylesCourse start date: Tue 9 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: David HarrisonExplore how to play the acoustic guitar styles and techniques that became the sound of the American folk revival. Learn what makes American folk picking tick, and how the techniques continue to be heard in contemporary guitar. Suitable for guitarists with a basic grasp of picking and preferably able to read guitar tablature.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £62.00 - Piano/keyboards: revision for levels 3 and 4Course start date: Thu 11 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Ana Claudia MagalhaesReinforce your basic piano skills, improve your reading, hand co-ordination and technique. This course will revise key topics from City Lit level 3 and 4 piano syllabus and is a great opportunity to keep learning throughout the summer!Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Baroque instrumental ensembleCourse start date: Mon 15 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Layil BarrLove early music and want to play it with more awareness of style? Explore how to achieve a more 'authentic' sound, covering interpretation of rhythm and ornaments, tone, embellishment and more.Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £104.00 - Classic albums 1966–1973: The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie and Pink FloydCourse start date: Mon 22 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Toby ManningExplore the making and meanings of four classic albums released 1966–1973 that reflect and define their era: The Beatles’ Revolver, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.Full fee £119.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £77.00 - Musicianship: Kodály workshopCourse start date: Mon 29 Jul 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Selena KayAn introductory course for all musicians to improve their aural skills, sight-singing and general musicianship using this renowned teaching method with an experienced and qualified tutor.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £64.00 - Afro-centric drummingCourse start date: Sat 3 Aug 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul ChiversExplore your enthusiasm for drumming with African rhythms and their variations. Enjoy improving your individual and group playing skills and learn how to apply a variety of percussive instruments in any musical style or setting.Full fee £69.00 Senior fee £69.00 Concession £69.00 - Piano: healthy technique workshop
Course start date: Tue 6 Aug 2024Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lewis KestertonExplore the foundations of healthy piano playing and discover how technical difficulties at the keyboard can be overcome.Full fee £89.00 Senior fee £89.00 Concession £62.00 - Come and sing: Rodgers and HammersteinCourse start date: Sat 10 Aug 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Siobhan Blake, Richard Hartley WilsonRodgers and Hammerstein - Together they created a series of innovative and influential American musicals. Their musical theatre writing partnership has been called the greatest of the 20th century. We will be looking at some of the big ensemble numbers from shows such as Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music alongside a couple of lesser known shows. Alongside soloists required for the ensemble numbers you are invited to bring a piece of your choosing from the vast catalogue of songs by these exceptional composers. Please write to music@citylit.ac.uk with your choice of solo.
Please contact music@citylit.ac.uk if you would like to sing solo.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £69.00 - Music in the 21st century: the first 25 yearsCourse start date: Tue 29 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Edward HendersonWe are now 25 years into the 21st century. This course is a guide to concert music and new composition of the century so far.Full fee £99.00 Senior fee £99.00 Concession £99.00
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