Counterpoint Music

School Holiday Songwriting clinics are happening again this coming January! By popular demand, both senior (grades 8-12) and junior (grades 4-7) clinics are available. Limited numbers, book now! https://www.counterpointmusic.com.au/school-holiday-songwriting-clinics.html

The School Holiday Songwriting Clinic is running in the first week of the winter holidays! Suitable for any high-school aged kids of any ability. Strictly limited to 10 places, head to https://www.counterpointmusic.com.au/school-holiday-songwriting-clinics to find out more and secure your spot!

Just announced! 4-Day School Holiday songwriting clinic this September for Grades 9 to 12. Limited places!

Go Elizabeth! Proud to have helped you transition from classical to being a working rock musician!

MEET THE BAND:

Stemming from a classical piano background, and accompanied by a Korg Kronos 2, keyboardist Elizabeth Anderson completes the Oasis/Noel Gallagher experience, layering piano, cellos, organs, trumpets, string orchestras and so much more. Emerging from Counterpoint Music studio and inspired by pianists Tori Amos, Ukrainian Viktoriya Yermolyeva (VK Goes Wild) and Melburian Josh Cohen, Elizabeth transitioned from Beethoven recitals to Radiohead solos, embracing her musical love of the alternative 80s and 90s over 88 ebonies and ivories.

Five notes is all you need!

Weekly Studio Update + The Power of the Pentatonic Some of you have been enjoying a break coinciding with school holidays - it seems that anyone high-school aged was pretty stressed in the last couple of weeks of term with exams and assignments. It's...

Sometimes it's good to make life more difficult for yourself.

Weekly Studio Update + Brainstorming Problem-Creating Over the past couple of weeks I've been doing a lot of brainstorming with my students during their lessons. Often we'll use brainstorming as part of our methods for trying to solve problems, but...

Why the sheet music is just one step in a chain of instructions.

Weekly Studio Update + Translating Note Data in to Movement One fantastic thing about teaching is finding out how your mind works - what makes you tick, what gets you frustrated, how you measure success - it's different across each and every student. Some...

How many things can you hear around you that tick, beep, swish or drip to a steady beat?

Weekly Studio Update + Rhythm in the Real World February already?! How the time flies. This week I'm looking forward to seeing a bunch of students who have been away through January - I'm looking forward to catching up and hearing about your...

I've been having some issues with email over the last couple of days, so if you've been in touch, please call or text as I may not have received your message. Hopefully back to normal soon!

Do you have a musical hero or dream dinner party musician guest?

Weekly Studio Update + Your Musical Hero Who would have thought that having a baby would mean I had a little less time on my hands? (Everyone. Everyone thought that.) So, that's my excuse for this being the first newsletter of 2021 despite...

How a simple chord plus a different bass note can open up a whole new extended world.

Accidental Chord Extensions + Weekly Update Today I want to talk to you a little bit about chord extensions - the added notes on top of your standard major and minor chords that add some different flavours in a lot of the music we listen to....