Author: bandskool

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 …

It is good to hear that the big bands never went away – not since their heyday in the 30’s/40’s. Since then they have been less about dancing and more about ambitious compositions and arrangements. Stan Kenton was a leading Read More …

If is is stringed and plucked, then I most likely can teach it; but especially those instruments with fretboards. Of course I teach guitar in all of its forms and all kinds of techniques. But I also teach bass guitar, Read More …

bandskool has been around a while and as the founder of bandskool, I have been around longer still – teaching that is…in different contexts from schools to colleges to adult education and so forth. It is my hope that soon Read More …

Here’s an interesting article which I find very encouraging… concerning a revival of interest in Library Music; whose golden period was arguably the mid 60’s to late 70’s/early 80’s. A period during which a great deal of said music was Read More …