Private Instrumental Lessons just £3.00 per month!

Parents are finding meeting the costs of music lessons increasingly expensive.

GigajamOnline http://www.gigajamonline.com/ is designed to support teachers with inexpensive resources for their students and also for self study, where a regular face to face is either not convenient, or considered too expensive.

Parents and students can sign up to learn guitar, bass, keyboard, drums AND theory for just £3 per month. The Online Music School subscription provides access to all of Gigajam's award winning lessons, so students can learn a second instrument at no extra cost...in fact, third, or fourth, instrument if they want.

Anyone can try GigajamOnline for FREE with 8 free lessons available - the introductory and first lesson from each course.

The lessons are all online and the playalong practice software can be downloaded freely. Practicing does not require any sepcicial equipment, juts you own instrument.

For students who have MIDI instruments, especially keyboard players and drummers you can record and analyse your performances.

You do not need to register to try your free lessons, simply visit here: http://www.gigajamonline.com/.

Brian Greene

Managing Director

Gigajam

http://www.gigajamonline.com/

Learning to play a musical instrument

Gigajam's Essential Skills Course for guitar, bass, keyboard and drums remains unique in the market. Our Unique Selling Point has always been that we provide the skills that enable people to be able to play an instrument.

It is interesting that the majority of online music tuition requires you to already be able to play to use their products. They offer much that is interesting and inspirational, and that is important, but rely on you developing the skills yourself, or having the benefit of a music teacher.

The whole reason we developed Gigajam was because developing the skills to be able to play music was not just expensive, it is not always easily accessible and is difficult to achieve on your own.

Gigajam is not just about our materials and our software, it is also about creating a clear, simple and logical path that leads to you achieving your goal.

Gigajam Lessons -You learn skills,
Gigajam Exercises - You practice your skills
Gigajam songs - Apply the skills learned to songs written to develop your skills from the course.
Play songs - You match your skills to playing songs you like
Write your own music - Take your skills and the tools you have developed and compose, perform, record your music.

Here are a couple of short videos that explain part of that process.

1. Playing Gigajam Songs http://schools.gigajam.com/VideoChannel.aspx?id=4
2. Playing Popular Songs* http://schools.gigajam.com/VideoChannel.aspx?id=5

*When we were young by The Killers

Let me know your views on learning an instrument and how you might go about supporting budding musicians.

Brian Greene
Managing Director
Gigajam
www.gigajam.com

Find a Teacher with MIA

You can find a local music teacher and study online with Gigajam through the Music Industries Association website.

The MIA is the UK Trade Association of the musical instrument industry. They represent the full breadth of the sector including manufacturers, distributors, retailers, publishers and educators.

Their mission is "CREATING AND ENCOURAGING MUSIC MAKING"

The MIA Find a Teacher section can be found here:
http://www.mia.org.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=21

Brian Greene
Managing Director
Gigajam
http://www.gigajam.com

Interesting research indicates that gamers who wish to learn to play the guitar could do well by using the new Your Rock Guitar with Gigajam's interactive music lessons: a gaming guitar, real guitar and midi guitar. www.YouRockGuitar.com

http://www.mi-pro.co.uk/news/31355/Research-claims-video-games-responsible-for-guitar-sales-surge

Obviously, Gigajam's unique award winning Analyser software would be a logical progression for gamers wanting to learn for real, and are used to interacting and receiving feedback from a console (PC). www.gigajamonline.com

Brian Greene
Managing Director
www.gigajam.com

Learn Online through your local Music Retailer

We are trying to be innovative in making music lessons more affordable and accessible, so you can now be study Online through local music stores. We are collaborating with the Music Industries Association.

Press Release here: http://bit.ly/9VnhvW

Gigajam Partner pages http://musicschools.gigajam.net/

Brian

Brian Greene
http://www.gigajam.com/

Free Music Instruction Videos on YouTube

If you are interested in learning guitar, bass, keyboard or drums, then please feel free to take a look at our lessons on You tube. We have shared the instructional videos from the first lessons of our Essential Skills Courses. These lessons won the BETT award for teaching wth technology so we are confident you will enjoy them.

The videos take you step by step through the process of getting started and you can follow the links to our Online Music School and get the full instructions. These include: narrated text, diagrams, and photographs. You can also download our unique Xtractor music player, which helps you practice the exercises.

The free videos are available at http://www.youtube.com/imsltd

Our full free lessons can be found at http://www.gigajamonline.com/

Brian

Brian Greene
http://www.gigajam.com/

ICT in schools

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-10865856

Having read the article from the BBC..

I think that it is really important that the distinction is clearly made between ICT lessons as a subject, using ICT to support learning; and computing. The latter definitely needs teaching so we produce meaningful vocational pathways and outcomes for our talented youngsters.

Personally, I am sure that the majority of pupils are more likely to be able to do more with computers than many teachers. This is not meant to mean that I do not value teachers, it is simply that technology is stuff that happened after they were born. Many of our young people do not even see using a PC, mobile phone, MP3 player as technology...it is just stuff, whereas the teaching workforce needs CPD! Our children are digital natives.


I would prefer to see schools using Excel in Maths and Science as just the tool that it is, not learning how to use it in ICT. Art should encompass Photoshop, in a way that Music has used technology since the mid 1980's. It is bizarre to me that people talk about ICT in Music - Musicians just use technology to help them create, record, and produce music using computers.

If lessons just used technology, when appropriate, with the appropriate application, then there would be no need for ICT lessons and no risk for them producing an engagement divide between technology at home and technology at school.

Brian

Brian Greene

http://www.gigajam.com/