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There is an allegory I like to refer to sometimes when trying to illustrate the point – in mid conversation – that absolutes don’t matter half as much as relatives. It goes along the following lines: Two explorers are on Read More …

Currently, we are putting together a band musicianship course with a view to offering it online and offline in 2021 onwards; covid pending! We hope the course will appeal to all sorts of folk: amateur players, students, pensioners and everyone Read More …

Improvisation – in a musical sense – is what we do as players when we have to make things up; which is when the musical instructions regarding what to play and when are not nailed to the mast. There is Read More …

Below you will see a flyer advertising some of bandskool’s musical instrument teachers. Whether offline from our teaching studio in Altrincham, Greater Manchester or a home visit; or indeed an online lesson if you prefer and which is perhaps more Read More …

Just to let you know that all of BANDSKOOL’S lessons can be offered online; whether it is guitar, banjo, mandolin, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, violin, Viola or Cello. Or perhaps you are looking for lessons in song-writing, composition or arranging Read More …

In May 2005, the members of Cream reunited to perform concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. A lot of time had passed since their last gig in 1968. In truth, they were only together for a relatively short period of Read More …

Check out the video below. Bluegrass and all that fast yee ha music is so compelling to watch and play (in this author’s view). The video displays a very fine team of players with not one weak link between them Read More …

Live music is taking a hammering at the moment. It seems that the somewhat spurious and fast changing rules regarding preventive measures to combat Covid are not all that favourable. Of course, one reads and hears about a determined few Read More …

It only recently came to my attention – because I hadn’t had the occasion to really sit down and think about it – that Trad Jazz was/is in fact a revivalist name tag for music that originally prevailed in New Read More …

Currently the new band musicianship course is at the planning stage but the aims are already clear: to provide an opportunity for players to develop their band/ensemble skills and improvisational skills using the big band and combo formats. The course Read More …