Marie-Claire Warren Music Tuition

Good people of South Yorkshire: I am seeking disused clarinets, flutes and saxophones for my teaching business. These do not have to be in great condition as I am primarily planning to use them to offer initial taster sessions to potential new pupils. There is a chance that I may also get some instruments fixed up to rent out.

If you happen to have any of these instruments lurking about and would like them to go to a good home, please get in touch. I am willing to come and collect from anywhere in South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire. Thanks for reading.

Someone’s been playing in MY room.

This is what happens when I let my 10 year old daughter chill out in my teaching room. She did however leave me a cute chain of ghosts, so I guess I won’t tell her off too much for making a mess!

Cliff has been having lessons for a few years now and is really enjoying his retirement. He started off playing clarinet and has now switched to saxophone.

Sometimes we have to rearrange his lessons because he’s too busy playing golf, but it’s not a problem because I only teach part time so I can see him on a different day or we have longer lessons before and after his trip.

In readiness for the new term if anyone is wanting to start learning the keyboard here is quite an in depth look at my preferred Keyboard Method Book along with a few hints and tips.

Although I grew up learning Kenneth Baker’s Complete Keyboard Player series, I find these that I just use the genre based books in this series for more advanced pupils and Books 3 & 4 are useful too. If there are any keyboard books you’d like me to review please let me know as music shops are unfortunately becoming rare breed and it isn’t always easy to get a look inside these books before you buy them.

Review of Progressive Keyboard Method Book 1 (lessons 1 & 2) by Marie-Claire Warren of S12 Music In this video I tell you what I like about this book and play throu...

Some great advice here…

Sarah is enjoying her lessons and particularly likes having a teacher who is chilled. I guess a lot of people associate teachers with school and with getting told off - but I’m running a business here - I really want you to enjoy your lessons and keep coming back - I’m nothing like the teachers you had at school!

As I’m not teaching during the summer holidays I thought some of you might appreciate some app recommendations to keep you ticking over.

This one is for students who have been learning for over a year or so. It shows you a note to play and then you have to play it before it reaches the side of the screen. What is cool about this is that this app listens to what you play and responds to it.

If you don’t get the hang of it straight away, don’t get stressed, you can try again in a few months.

Note Hitter Voice Lite