Introduction
Why learn an instrument? Most obviously, perhaps for the sheer joy that can be had from making music. But the pleasure gained from being able to play music is complemented by other benefits.
Teachers are often struck by the difference between students at their first lesson and the same person a year later. The change can be remarkable. Exposure to music and the learning of an instrument changes someone and makes them grow, both as a musician and as a person.
We hope that learning with Black Dyke will help build your confidence, develop your self-expression, improve reading, comprehension and maths skills and create a sense of responsibility, both to yourself and to others.
In this video, our Director of Music and Conductor, Professor Nick Childs, himself a virtuoso musician, introduces and describes our lesson series, giving you a good overview of the courses available across the five key instruments of a brass band.
Our COURSES
- Leading Black Dyke Band members, each one a world-class musician, will act as your teacher in a series of ten short video lessons. Each instrument has three different course levels available: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. This series has been developed by Black Dyke during lockdown and we hope that all courses will become fully available during the coming months.
- Details of each course, and the lessons that are currently available to you, can be seen when you click through on your chosen instrument. Courses aim to develop pupils’ musical ability to standards laid down by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) grade exams. Beginners approximate to Grades 1 to 3, Intermediate Grades 4 to 5, and Advanced to Grades 6 to 8.