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Do you ever feel uncertain of grammar or punctuation when writing reports? This is not a thing which can be fixed overnight but perhaps, subscribing to a site like Daily Writing Tips <a […]

I recently took part in some interesting research in that intriguing Venn diagram intersection of music/language/psychology.
To ensure that the tests weren’t skewed by knowledge of what was being studied, […]

I’m going along to The Child’s Curriculum on Saturday, hosted by Edinburgh University’s Institute for Music in Human and Social Develpment.Hosted in Queen Street’s Royal College of Surgeons‘ buildings,speakers […]

Those studying composing/arranging and listening in SQA Music exams pretty soon come upon variation form. If you’re lucky enough to have an iPhone or iPad you can download a free app containing a recording by […]

Well done and many thanks to all the members of the East Lothian Guitar Ensemble – one of six ensembles to take part in last night’s excellent Showcase Concert. It was a full house in a newly vamped Brunton Hall. […]

Honest debate impels me to include points of view which do not match my own. In this regard here is an article in which it it stated that parents who invest in music lessons for their children, in the hope of […]

This fun video considers the elements of space and time in music – no specialist knowledge required to understand it:

We have a date for this year’s Trinity Guildhall guitar exams – Tue 19 Mar – times to be confirmed. See Dates for Your Diary page for more details and map.

Those of you studying string instruments – or simply fans of string quartet music – might like to know of this free gig by the Edinburgh Quartet this Friday at 21:00. Details here. Music by Henry Purcell and Nigel Osborne.

Details here of seminars, concerts etc.

New dates for rehearsals, concerts, exams have been added to the Dates for you Diary page.

New info has been posted here about recommended clip-on tuners and strings. I would thoroughly recommend everyone in a school guitar group to get a clip-on tuner as it enables you to tune in a noisy environment – […]

New play-along midi files for Knox, MGS, NBHS and ELGE have been posted on the Guitar Group Midis page.

Staff and students currently scaling the steep learning curve from Sibelius 6 to 7 may be find some cheer in the wealth of YouTube tutorials in existence. A simple search revealed the following:

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Thanks to David Gilmour for getting this blog back from the void. There’ll be play-along midi files before you know it

I always look forward to notification of a new YouTube upload by Smalin aka Stephen Malinowski. I’ve linked to several here before but this one is a cracker and features: 

his uniquely colourful system for […]

This is a time of year I enjoy greatly – and not only because the opportunity to bolster one of Europe’s sun-drenched but struggling economies approaches. There are performances aplenty. In the secondary sector […]

Last night saw the return of Campie’s Musical Evening, where guitarists perform in addition to brass, recorders and choir. Many thanks to Danny, my ‘recording engineer volunteer’. The guitarists played a mixture […]