Lessons take place in schools during school time. If brass teaching is not offered in your school, lessons may be available at our Music Centre. Lip muscles, tummy muscles, finger and hand co-ordination have to be developed, alongside a growing awareness of pitch and rhythm, as an ongoing process. As long as parents support short but frequent practice periods, however, five notes can be learnt quite quickly, and a number of well-known tunes will soon be within reach. Group lessons, especially in the early stages, can be more fun than lessons by yourself, and the natural process of learning from your mistakes less intimidating.
Children learn from each other, seeing their own strengths and weaknesses in context.
The smallest group size for beginner lessons is three. In some special cases larger groups of up to ten may be taught in the early stages of learning. Each lesson will last half an hour. Later, as pupils progress, individual lessons may be arranged through the Music Centre. Brass instruments can sound glorious, lyrical, grand, loud, soft, spine-tingling and exciting in many different sorts of music.