Argyll Rock School this weekend

[IainJ]

Just a quick reminder about the Argyll Rock School, which is being held at the Grammar School over the next two days. Below is a quick run down on what will be happening over the weekend.

The second Argyll Rock School will be held in Campbeltown Grammar on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June 2007. Careers Scotland launched this project in the Highlands in 2006 and in the same year launched Argyll’s first Rock School in Dunoon.

Careers Scotland is pleased to announce an enthusiastic and experienced list of tutors who all hail from Campbeltown and have made their mark on the music industry. The aims of the weekend are to offer tuition in rock music for all ages in guitar, drums, vocals and sound production in conjunction with highlighting Careers Scotland concepts of Career Planning and Career Resilience through the medium of music.

The Twisted Melons a.k.a. Stephen, Paul and Mark Johnson will tutor guitar, drums and vocals while Iain Hill who is currently working in a top recording studio in London will tutor in live sound production. For vocal technique Janet Fergusson has agreed to offer her expertise as singer and music teacher and Robert Black (Catch 22 & the Favourites) will tutor the keyboard workshops.

Anyone interested in attending should pop up to the school during the morning and will be allocated a placement as long as they are still available.

The first workshop of the day will be a rigging workshop for everyone giving a basic background to setting up a live performance. This will be done by Iain Hill and if you are interested in specialising in Live Sound Production you can also attend the follow up workshops.

IainJ

[general jack o'niell]

very infomative, great to spend time with a bunch of lads who are so obviously knowledgable and passionate about their music, can't wait till tomorrow

[general jack o'niell]

day two surpassed day one, even lunch with DJKJ was very informative. many thanks to the melons, paul, stephen and mark, to the two iains, robert kaye suzie and all the rest, even macky, who was just macky.

hope all the kids got as much out of it as i did and enjoyed it as much as i did, can't wait for the next one, i promise to put the sound of my voice to better use at it, the melons have promised to let me sing with them. thanks for the wee impromptu set at the end and doing my fav song if only to shut me up!!!

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