Dave O'Neill Music

Dave starts a 6 week teaching term next week. Enrol now

Dave commences teaching for Term 1 on Monday 3 February.
Currently there are the following lesson timeslots available. These do fill quickly - usually just after Australia Day they will have been snapped up. So get in quickly if you would like weekly or fortnightly lessons.
MONDAYS
5.00 pm weekly
5.30 pm weekly
6.00 pm fortnightly
6.30 pm weekly - filled
TUESDAYS
3.30 pm weekly
5.30 pm weekly
WEDNESDAYS
5.00 pm weekly
5.30 pm fortnightly
6.00 pm weekly
6.30 pm weekly
THURSDAYS
3.00 pm weekly
3.30 pm weekly
4.00 pm weekly - filled

Contact Sharon (his admin) on 0418 405 236 or email [email protected]

Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You, According to Science If your parents ever submitted you to regular music lessons as a kid, you probably got in a fight with them once or twice about it. Maybe you didn't want to go; maybe you didn't like practicing. But we have some bad news: They were right. It turns…

It's not too late! A couple of spots still available for this course starting tomorrow night.

Learn to Play Music by Ear (9 week course)

If you’ve always wanted to be able to play in sessions, can play an instrument but wonder how all those players in the Session Bar at the National seem to know hundreds of tunes without the sheet music in front of them – then this course is the gateway to a whole new playing experience.

Dave is running a nine week course that will teach you the fundamental skill-set that will help you open up a whole new wonderful world of music. Learning tunes by ear is essential for anyone who wants to really play traditional music. (And not have to lug an instrument stand or books of music!) There is so much missing when traditional tunes are put onto paper, and being able to learn a tune directly from a musician or a CD enables you to play with the right lilt. Tunes learned by ear stay in the memory in a way that tunes that are learned from sheet music don’t as well!

This course will teach you what to listen for, what the essential (and eventually quite predictable) patterns are that will come up tune after tune, and de-mystify the process. Playing by ear isn’t a special talent only available to those born with an innate gift – it’s a completely learnable skill set that involves hearing, some cues and clues, and knowing enough theory and scales and arpeggios to make very good guesses that won’t sound awful.

There are a couple of weeks of the course where there is some theory so you come to understand what is happening in the music – but it’s hands on your instrument to try it straight away too. This course suits beginners through to intermediate players of melody instruments [guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, whistle, accordion etc] – You need to know your way around your instrument – knowing a G and D scale pretty much is the starting point.

When: Thursday nights from 6.30 pm to 8 pm starting Thursday 17 October for 9 weeks

Where: Training Room, Youth Coalition of the ACT, 46 Clianthus St, O’Connor 2602

Cost: $220

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Or phone Dave’s teaching administrator Sharon on 0418 405 236 to book your place.

2019 Term 4 commencing 14 October Enrolling NOW Dave is back from France this week and currently enrolling students for Term 4 commencing Monday 14 October. TO BOOK any of the spots – please call Sharon on 0418 405 236 or email: daveoneill…

Dave is back from France this week and currently enrolling students for Term 4 commencing Monday 14 October.

TO BOOK any of the spots – please call Sharon on 0418 405 236 or email: [email protected]

Lesson spots open are:

Mondays
Now full

Tuesdays

3.30 pm (fortnightly lesson on 22 Oct and every 2 weeks)
4.00 pm weekly lesson
4.30 pm weekly lesson

Wednesdays

4.30 pm weekly lesson

Thursdays

4.30 pm weekly lesson

Play by Ear Course commencing 17 October

There are just 2 places available on this 9 week course commencing 17 October. The course takes place 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm on Thursdays at the Burranda Training Room, Youth Coalition of the ACT, 46 Clianthus St, O’Connor ACT 2602

https://dornsife.usc.edu/bci/brain-and-music/

These guys study the effects of learning music on both brain development and emotional development - in a longitudinal study now in it's 4th year and showing some interesting results so far.

Brain and Music Program > Brain and Creativity Institute > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Sometimes it's good to read science...especially the science of music and learning.

Neural correlates of accelerated auditory processing in children engaged in music training Several studies comparing adult musicians and non-musicians have shown that music training is associated with brain differences. It is unknown, howeve…

Term 4 is enrolling now