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Body percussionist and Body Beats Author Ollie Tunmer discusses the benefits of his method in today’s music education landscape When Body Beats was launched at the Music and Drama Education EXPO in March 2020, no one could have foreseen just how much things would change due to Covid-19. Following the initiation of lockdown, I delivered Read More

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  Times are tough for musicians at the moment. At Encore we’ve been investigating this first hand – in a recent survey of 560 musicians we found that 64% of them were considering leaving the industry. But as we all begin to adapt to the ‘new normal’, it’s more important than ever that as musicians Read More

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It may not be the same as singing live, but continuing to sing online with your choir can really invigorate your singers. It gives them something to work towards, to look forward to, and it can also be a tremendous learning experience for singers and directors alike. We wanted to create this choral pack to Read More

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What is ScorePlay? ScorePlay allows you to listen and read through entire choral arrangements online. Due to the current climate, we’re unable to meet up with our local choirs – ScorePlay is the perfect way to sing along to your favourite choral arrangements and decide on repertoire for your next rehearsal!   Who is it Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education. Since lockdown started we have provided 27 free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 in conjunction with Rhinegold Education. These lessons are simple to use with no previous musical expertise required, and can Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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  Finding the best resource to begin a journey in music theory is not easy. It’s a jungle out there! To help you navigate through it, Musicroom provides here a review of some of the most reputable theory books available on the market. Picking the right resource will be at the heart of successful learning, Read More

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How do you maintain a spirit of community when faced with an extended period of isolation? Bringing people together through singing has been the essence of Gareth Malone’s work for over a decade. Whether it be through his days as a youth and community choir leader at LSO, inciting children’s investment in school through his Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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Remote Classroom Learning Solutions   How to improve the audio quality for remote educators. We would like to share Part 1 of our tutorial videos for teachers and remote learning. Educator, and Samson demonstrator, Matt Vanacoro shows how to enhance the audio for remote instruction and lesson planning using tools like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Read More

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  Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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Key Stage 1: Lesson 3   Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! From Rhinegold Read More

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From Rhinegold Education, this week’s Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14) home music lesson, which will get you listening to and performing Irish Traditional Music! Key Stage 3: Lesson 1 Irish Traditional Music Learning Objective: Listen to, review and perform some Irish traditional music. Length: ½ hour. 1. Watch the clip below and answer these questions. (Listen Read More

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Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical expertise is required! This week, Read More

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Key Stage 2: Lesson 2 Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical Read More

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Key Stage 1: Lesson 2 Musicroom is dedicated to helping you provide your child with a rich and rounded education, even during school closures. Every week we’ll be providing free outstanding, fun and rewarding music lessons for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 that can be taught at home. Simple to use and no musical Read More

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The Casio Music Academy The Casio Music Academy is an online learning platform designed to help you learn to play the keyboard! You don’t need any prior musical knowledge, just a Casio keyboard or digital piano and a compatible device. Starting from the most basic stages, this online academy will have you playing straight away Read More

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March has begun with a spring in its step at this year’s London Music&Drama Education Expo, held at the Kensington Olympia on 4-5 March. For those of you who don’t know, the Music&Drama Expo is Europe’s largest conference and exhibition for music and drama education professionals where authors and products took centre stage in a Read More

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  ‘One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.’ Johnny Marr – The Smiths Rory Gallagher: Profile Despite over 30 million record sales, and having been a noted influence on such acolytes as Brian Read More

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As the year begins so too does the mass of awards shows, a whole host of ceremonies that continue throughout much of the year. Amongst all of the various ceremonies celebrating the arts, four stand out above the others, these being the Academy Awards for film, the Emmys for TV, the Tonys for theatrical works Read More

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As the year draws to a close, we at Musicroom regularly compile the best-selling titles into a single, handy page for your perusal, which you can check out here! But before you go exploring that list, perhaps it’ll be worth your while to read about some of the books below!   Bright Star – Gareth Read More

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With the recent premiere of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s lauded musical, Dear Evan Hansen, we at Musicroom have put our heads together to bring you our favourite picks of the Musicals currently on in the West End. And so, in no particular order… 1. School of Rock   Based on the successful 2003 film Read More

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Sibelius Tips & Tricks: Ultimate Intelligent MIDI Import In the latest Sibelius update, Avid introduced their Ultimate Intelligent MIDI Import tool, allowing users to convert MIDI compositions into perfect scores that are fit to print and perform, allowing greater ease of access between Pro Tools and Sibelius. Watch the video tutorial above to see how! Read More

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As the year draws to a close, the holiday season seems to creep up and, before you know it, Christmas time is here, and you still have a fair few presents to buy without any idea of what exactly to get. Here at Musicroom, we stock a variety of novelties, games, puzzles and much more. Read More

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ABRSM and Hal Leonard Europe have hit the right note by working together and publishing new Singing for Musical Theatre Songbooks! This new partnership supports the recent launch of ABRSM’s Singing for Musical Theatre exams, for Grades 1–3. For many singers, accessing a variety of popular, published songs from a wide-range of musicals in one Read More

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Elise Ecklund is a YouTube and Instagram influencer from the United States, best-known for her ukulele covers of famous songs by the likes of Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and Twenty One Pilots. Elise is currently on her first Europe-wide Meet & Greet tour, performing famous covers from her YouTube repertoire as well as her own Read More

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As another year comes to a close in the UK, the holidays are marked by a relatively recent tradition – that being the John Lewis & Partners Christmas themed advert. For ten years, to accompany these charming tales, one can always expect a dressed down cover of a previously established hit single. And so, from Read More

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