Transformance Music Group

Spring is here and Transformance Music would like to celebrate with this exclusive Music Hub offer!

As hubs begin to form their CPD programmes for the 2015/16 academic year, we are offering all Hubs a 30% discount on in-house training days if booked before the end of April. This includes our popular one-day training for up to 25 delegates, providing all the information and resources needed to teach composition with iPads over the course of a year. More details and pricing is available here. Training is delivered by Ben Sellers, author of ‘Teaching Music with GarageBand for iPad’, with support from another member of the Transformance team.

The course is ideal for both specialist and non-specialist teachers at KS 1-3, as well as workshop leaders, peripatetic staff and SEN and Music Co-ordinators. A comprehensive resource pack allows delegates to disseminate the information from the training to their colleagues, facilitating high-quality delivery across the school.

To book e-mail marianna@transformancemusic.org

Looking for fun and simple activities to get you or your students making great-sounding music? Read our latest blog post detailing five popular GarageBand exercises! Check it out!

One grey rainy Saturday, Tranformance Music (commissioned by Drake Music), got together with a group of deaf and hard of hearing children and adults and set out to:

1. Create melodic and rhythmic motifs, and more abstract textures, generated through games, exploration, and cross-arts exercises.
2. Develop their capacity to solo, and to mine these solos for moments of genius that could be re-contextualised in a final composition.
3. Explore participants' identity as deaf children and potentially write some lyrics based on this identity.

Read all about the day here and stay tuned to see the final piece! We will post it shortly! http://transformancemusic.org/music-composition-by-and-for…/

Transformance Music's Ben Sellers recently published a textbook: Teaching Music with Garageband for iPad. Packed full of detailed lesson plans, music theory lessons and engaging exercises, it's perfect for home-schooling, music teachers, afterschool clubs or to use at home. Check it out here!