Happy New Year to all of our students and subscribers, new and old! As I sit and reflect on the previous year at Guitar School, I really can't believe how quickly the time has passed. We have achieved so much together over the last 12 months. Our students achieved many
Distinctions and Merits in their guitar and piano exams. Whilst I achieved some good results in the studio, working on backing tracks and a selection of acoustic cover versions of some well known songs for my YouTube channel. You can check out the following acoustic covers by clicking below:
Catfish and the Bottlemen ‘Hourglass’
Oasis ‘Fade Away’
In my first blog of the new year, I thought I'd look ahead at 2016 as I highlight my main focus for the year ahead. Much emphases will be looking at the ABRSM, LCM, RGT Syllabus in acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, rock guitar, ukulele and piano playing. At this point, I would like to stress the importance of practicing for these exams in your own time at home, thus helping you to achieve the level of musicianship required to enable you to achieve good pass rates in the examinations.
There will be three opportunities to sit the guitar and piano examinations this year with the last dates for exam entries in the UK being as follows: Spring 2016 - 1st February, Summer 2016 - 1st May, Winter 2016 - 1st October. As always I will try and enter as many students as possible throughout 2016, with the hope of a record breaking year for the number of students entered. If you are not currently working towards a syllabus and would like to start, please let me know ASAP and we will get started. For our advanced students we will be looking at some famous guitar solo’s whilst we try and put some speed techniques into your playing to enable you to conquer those mammoth guitar parts.
In edition to the exams I would also like to make recording a large focus point this year, as I aim to record as many students performances as possible. I will be offering a FREE mixing and mastering service to all our students that wish to record their tracks, students will be able to record whilst in lessons so there will be no extra studio recording fees endured. I will also be teaching the art of home recording whilst the student records their performance so they will be able to achieve good results from their recording sessions at home. I myself will also be recording as many tracks as I have the time for and releasing them through my YouTube and Soundcloud channels. If you haven't already, please follow all social media pages here to be the first to hear the tracks as they are released:
www.youtube.com/user/markellwood22
www.facebook.com/guitarschooluk
www.twitter.com/guitarschooluk
www.facebook.com/somethingaboutthegirl
https://soundcloud.com/something-about-the-girl
All said, it looks like another crazy busy year for us all here at Guitar School… Are you ready!? I can't wait to get started! :)
