Any Instrument Workshops

It doesn’t matter what instrument you bring to this class. Here you’ll benefit from seeing other instruments being learned, played & you’ll be able to play along with them....& you won’t have to wait until a workshop comes up for your particular instrument.

Knowing a little about & playing with other instruments is very valuable in an overall musical understanding & will help you become an asset to a group with sympathy of what your fellow musicians require. It may even lead you to playing a ‘second’ instrument.

Whether you’ve brought along a penny whistle or a tuba, a keyboard, guitar or a banjo, the principal of playing it by ear is the same.

First train the ear incrementally until you can:

• identify intervals
• identify whether a series of notes is going up or going down
• find the note you are listening to on your instrument.

If you can find one note by ear, you can find all the notes of your chosen tune. If you can tell if the notes in your tune are going up in pitch you’ll know which direction to search for them on your instrument. If you can identify intervals – even roughly, you’ll be quicker at finding your notes.