Improvisation for Kids

Workshop for students to create their own inspired, creative music in an organised and supportive environment. No experience necessary, all welcome whether they play an instrument or not. No reading or writing of music, just playing and enjoying; skills that will last a lifetime! RupertG explains and demonstrates sounds and influences from the full spectrum of music. He shows how everyone can do the same for themselves through his innovative method, which forms the basis of all his workshops and classes. Each student in the group will bring, or be given, an instrument to use for the workshop. Each student's input will be valued and is important. They will all contribute to ideas and sounds which make up the whole piece or pieces, which will then be performed in the last segment of the workshop. They create sounds and stories through sound which means something to them. They learn new skills and gain confidence with deep and profound practical grasp of what all music is about, and how to create it themselves. It gets students past the formality and difficulties of classical music seeming remote, too much hard work, irrelevant or of another world and time, and puts it straight in the personally and socially relevant basket, simultaneously keeping the discipline, subtlety and soulfulness which makes classical music what it is. Applicable to all instruments including violin, viola, cello, voice, piano, harp, woodwind, recorder, brass and percussion. Instruments provided on the day will include percussion, xylophones, keyboards etc.