Key To Music

Lovely open mic night this evening! Some first EVER performances plugged in and practicing with a mic, and some good old jamming! Lovely sunny day to be hard at work learning new skills and challenging ourselves, to fantastic results. 6 stars out of 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - watch out Edinburgh we have some super stars in our midst coming out to perform for you soon.

Excited to teach as part of the Guitar Breakthrough Summit tomorrow 24 January. Starts 4pm UK time, it's free, sign up here for a load of cool sessions on songwriting, guitar playing, practice strategies and more

Guitar Breakthrough Summit Join the world's leading guitar teaching experts for an outstanding virtual guitar playing event and gain significant new insights, tools and guitar skills.

Some 2025 going’s on at Key to Music! From intro to Trad and DADGAD workshops, special guest teachers, to performance readying for some. As always a total joy to see these awesome folks hone their skills on guitar and enjoy learning new genres of music too. Warning Halloween jump scare as you scroll.

Calling songwriters! 🎵 The chord progression secrets that made The Beatles legendary
Discover 5 techniques they used in classics like: → 'Yesterday'→ 'In My Life'→ 'Eight Days a Week'→ 'When I'm Sixty-Four'
You can use these chord moves today in your own writing
Full breakdown: https://songwritinglessonsonline.com/write-songs-like-the-beatles

5 Ways To Write Songs Like The Beatles xplaining how the Beatles used II major chords, accented relative minor chords, secondary dominants and other songwriting techniques to write their chord progressions, explaining how songwriters can use those ideas in their own writing.

Calling songwriters - Live stream - How to write expressive songs - https://mailchi.mp/8705758711c1/calling-songwriters-live-stream-how-to-write-expressive-songs

The coolest kids and junior students in town. Very proud of these guys ⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍 consistently showing up with their best attention and greatest of attitudes towards their playing and learning.

Interested in songwriting? Free four video series - https://mailchi.mp/ee8df0ab1d3c/interested-in-songwriting-free-four-video-series-8253002

Songwriters! I have a free four-part video series on songwriting that addresses some of the challenges that come up most often for songwriters I've worked with:
- how to get unstuck and finish songs
- how to get ideas for songs
- how to fix something that's not working in a song
- how to sequence the ideas in your song so that they connect most effectively with the listener.

The link to get the four-part series is here

Why it feels hard finishing songs - and how you can make it easier Have you ever started a song but then struggled to finish it? Read this article to discover the biggest reasons all songwriters struggle with this, and how to finish your songs.

I'm going to be a guest this evening at 6pm on Tommaso Zillio's channel (internet legend Music Theory For Guitar) and we'll be talking about how to go from a story to a song - how you can 'tell a story' with the musical elements of a song

How To Go From A Story To A Song [With Diana de Cabarrus] How do you go from a story to a song? What parts of the story you have in mind are important enough o end up in your song, and how do you put these elements ...

https://mailchi.mp/247627cda01e/youre-invited-to-the-free-guitar-summit Last call for the Guitar Breakthrough summit on Saturday 20th 4pm - free to attend, featuring no less than SEVEN great instructors.