Key To Music

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.

Former student Annie is selling off some of her recording gear if any budding home recordists might want some of it:
Pm us and we'll put you in touch.

Scarlett 2i2 Audio Interface USB (£70)

Presonus Eris E5 Studio Speakers x2 (£150)

Rode SMR Premium Shock Mount (£45)

Rode NT-USB microphone (£100)

Rode PSA1 heavy duty mountable microphone stand (£70)

It's easy to get stuck a rut with your chord playing! At the start of learning guitar, it's pretty apparent that we need to learn open chords in order to play any songs. Then there are barre chords and power chords. Then what?

It can be hard to know:
a) What even exists in terms of chord vocabulary
b) Out of all the possible chords you could learn, which will help YOU at this stage in your playing sound the way you want to? There's no point learning 90 ways of playing an A7 altered chord if that's not a sound that features in the music you want to play or create.

If you have been playing the same chords the same ways for a while, come along to the live stream Diana's doing at 5pm GMT today with special guest Simon Candy of Acoustic Guitar Lessons Online. Our topic is 'Five Ways To Level Up Your Chords'. Simon has great material that's simple to apply whatever your level and he will also be giving something away.

https://www.youtube.com/live/8Z6bo7kEDWQ?feature=shared

Join us live here.

5 Ways To Level Up Your Chords Songwriting discovery talk with Simon Candy of Acoustic Guitar Lessons Online during which he'll share his top five simple ways to level up the way you use c...

Leith Depot Key to Music open mic and jam session ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Well if it isn’t a bunch of Key to Music student LEGENDS. Our second jam session and open mic at Leith Depot last night. An absolute pleasure as always to watch your jamming skills and performances. Well done cool kids. More pics to come

Some of you will remember Key to Music student Nat Wilson His new band the Burnside Burners have a gig not to be missed this Sunday 2nd of July at the Hive in Edinburgh. Very inspiring for all of us to see our alumni musicians turn professionals doing their thing. Particularly fans of blues music (hopefully all of you!) get yourselves along to this. ⭐️🎸

We all had a really great evening at The Leith Depot on Monday night for a students open mic and jam session. Well done everyone 👏🤩 also huge thanks to this awesome venue for hosting us

This months student Open Mic night was a huge success! Well done everyone!! 👏 ⭐️

I’m one of six instructors presenting at next Saturday’s guitar breakthrough summit. It’s free to attend and the sessions will explore aspects of blues guitar, acoustic guitar, guitar technique and speed, composition and songwriting. A nice and musically valuable way to spend what could otherwise be a dark damp January afternoon!

Want to improve your songwriting?

Meet our next expert at Guitar Breakthrough Summit:

• Diana De Cabarrus - Songwriting Mastery Coach (UK): Spilling the beans on how to Write Lyrics That Stick In Your Listener’s Mind

Join us - for free, from your home by locking in your spot today at https://bit.ly/3XchvOx

Last session of the year with the awesome Ruth, playing us out with a Christmas original at our regular open mic!

Merry Christmas from some of our awesome Juniors!

Going live today at 5pm as a guest of Tommaso Zillio, (Guitar and Music Theory For Guitar wizard) on his channel https://www.musictheoryforguitar.com/theory-talk.html?acm=46713_643
Join us live or watch the replay if you're interested in songwriting - we're discussing how you can take a well-trodden theme (like Christmas) and respond in an individual way, or give your own twist and expression to a popular theme.

Theory Talks - Live Stream Get my FREE eBook “18 Tips To Make Your Pentatonic Solos Sound Professional” here: https://www.musictheoryforguitar.com/pentatonic-guitar.html

Steve Vai's cameo videos (where you can get him to record you a wee message) are so endearing! https://www.cameo.com/steve.vai?fbclid=IwAR3zz8EbLWqz098QobFlMHLV8DWRUXuBZNPtSp_TqljxEL0yy2CJxb8CqcM

Cameo - Steve Vai Steve Vai on Cameo! Cameo lets you book personalized videos from your favorite people.

Check out our Instagram this month for the first ever Key to Music Advent Calendar, where we will be giving you some tips and tricks for your guitar playing and generally getting into the festive spirit. 🎄See you everyday till Christmas!

Key To Music on Instagram: "The Key to Music Advent Calendar is here! #haveyourselfaverystrummychristmas #guitarlessons #guitaredinburgh #guitartips" Key To Music shared a post on Instagram: "The Key to Music Advent Calendar is here! ". Follow their account to see 63 posts.

We host a regular open mic for students who want to come along and get some practice playing in front of others and hone their playing chops. It’s always an awesome and supportive evening of great tunes and performances and a chance to try out covers or original material they have been crafting arrangements for! Well done students for another great open mic tonight - KTM stars

When was the last time you trained your rhythm skills? stay tuned for some short and very effective activities that will make your strumming sound pro. , tag

Students open mic night tonight. Some performing for the first time EVER. What a brilliant evening with fantastic performances and camaraderie. Bravo KTM super stars! 🤩

Live stream in T - 10 minutes! Diana will be joining the legendary Tommaso Zillio on his YouTube channel Music Theory For Guitar. This one is all about how to get unstuck when you are writing your own music. Very relatable!

Tune in for some inspiration and top insights here 🎸🎈

Songwriter's Block: How To Get Unstuck [with Diana de Cabarrus] Join songwriter Diana de Cabarrus and yours truly Tommaso Zillio for a chat on how to get unstuck when you are writing your music. Diana will share some grea...

How to finish songs - upcoming lyric writing livestreams - https://mailchi.mp/39ee25e10dee/how-to-finish-songs-livestreams

A bunch of super cool dudes performing at the Portobello Beach Busk today. Exceptionally proud of you all for showing up and rocking out. Your hard work continues to pay off in skill and also mega cool points!! A joy to watch 🙂🥳😎Well done everyone!

Very proud of guitarists who went along and took part in the Big Beach Busk today! I used to really enjoy this event and I'm glad I get to see the clips and photos from Spain! Great job everyone :) 🤩

Students present and past! Fancy a spot of busking? 🤩 Key to Music is heading down to the infamous Portobello Big Beach Busk this Saturday!

If you have some songs you’ve been dying to try out to an audience, some old covers you’d like to dust off, would like to jam in with some others or just head down for some fun and great live music please do join us. We’d love to see you!

Sarah will be there to greet you at 11.30am near ’The Beach house’ cafe on the promenade. From there we will find a spot to set up, and relax into the great atmosphere of the day.

See you there!

Livestream - how to sound great playing guitar on your own - with acoustic guitar expert Simon Candy! Friday 12th August. https://mailchi.mp/70b58e692a0c/livestream-how-to-sound-great-playing-guitar-on-your-own-5650601

Livestream - how to sound great playing guitar on your own - https://mailchi.mp/8abf3ab8771b/livestream-how-to-sound-great-playing-guitar-on-your-own-5650593