So, for nearly a week now I’ve been conducting my regular lessons online, using a Zoom video link. Most of you will be familiar with this by now because lots of families are using the technology to stay in touch with one another during the Covid-19 lockdown. I’ve got to admit that before I tried it I was a bit… Read more »
Hi all. As you know, I’ve now switched to online lessons. I’m using the Pro version of Zoom – the highest quality video conferencing software available. It’s free for my students to use and allows us to have a ‘nearly in the same room’ type of experience. There is, admittedly, one small downside: that it’s difficult to play / sing… Read more »
A bit of good news: I’ve found a really good online conferencing tool that will be perfect for conducting piano, guitar and music theory lessons via video link. It’s free for students to use, requires no additional software to be downloaded to PC / laptops (and only a little app for android and apple devices), and so allows musicians to… Read more »
As I’m sure you’re aware, yesterday the government announced that the public should avoid large gatherings and other non-essential social interactions. As you can imagine, this has put the fear of God into lots of ordinary folk who are now wondering what on earth they can or can’t, should or shouldn’t do. As far as my service is concerned, I… Read more »
Despite all the chaos, cancellations and disruption around the world as a result of the Corona Virus, my service continues to be as busy as ever. This week is another one that is completely fully booked out with students but, as usual, if this changes I will post it to my Facebook page. Speaking of the dreaded Corona Virus, I… Read more »
Hi everyone. Thanks for visiting the blog again to check for lesson availability. Hopefully, posting available spaces here each week will continue to prove useful to those of you who want to book in last minute lessons / have sudden changes of plans etc. Unfortunately, though, this week is absolutely fully booked, with students and band camp sessions running from… Read more »
This is an exciting week for me because, for the very first time, I’m collaborating with Sarah Churcher (another excellent singing teacher based in Carleton) to provide a full day’s singing workshop. It’s on Thursday at Woodlands Retreat in Giggleswick, and will be all about songs from the shows. We’re actually fully booked out already, but we’ll be planning to… Read more »
Today we had our first ever ‘Band Camp’ group sessions, in which small groups of students performed songs together. In both sessions we got the opportunity to record our work… and here are the results: In both cases, we just set up a small recorder while we played the songs live. For this reason, the balance isn’t quite right (both… Read more »
This week is school half term week in the Skipton area (and many other parts of the country). However, my service will continue this week pretty much uninterrupted; only a very small number of students will have had their lessons cancelled as a result of the school holidays. There are also a few available lesson slots, should you wish to… Read more »
Only one slot is available this week: Wednesday 12th Feb 13:50 (30 mins) Drop me a text on 07746637472 if you would like to use it.