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Training Summary

Working in the community is above all about making relationships with others and through that relationship communicating ideas and thoughts. It really does not matter what medium is used as the end result tends to be the same. As we base our everyday relationships on mutual respect and tolerance, our relationships within in a community arts group are no different.

A healthy dose of common sense and humour will go far. However, awareness of certain issues both cultural and political is vital when working with community groups.

This training resource will examine the community music group in not only a mental health but a multiple and learning disAbility context also. There are crossover techniques when working in all these areas, which are very useful. This resource is intended as a guide towards the techniques and issues surrounding community music making. It is only a starting point, as ultimately each individual community group will adopt its own ways of working.

Training Manual

Creative Issue Management - Mental Health

Taking Control - Special Needs and Learning DisAbility

Music Therapy

  • Case Study from Columcille Day Centre (special needs)

Participatory Learning and Action

Reading and Writing music from scratch

Sound Therapy and Psychoacoustics

  • See the Drake Music Project Report in  Music Technology below

 

Setting up a Music Group

Setting up a Music Group

Music Group Training Exercises

Specimen Voice Workshop

Workshop Songs from around the World

Rhythm workshop Idea - Pulsing

Conflict Management

 

Music in the Community

Useful Templates

Monitoring Sheet

Monitoring sheets are extremely useful for recording information about the session on the spot. However, if they are filled out in detail, they can often act as full reports in themselves.

Report Template

Learning Plan Template

Learning plans are especially important when working in schools.

Specimen Session Plan

Session Plans For Werrington YOI

Sessions plans will vary from session to session but always include as much information as possible about the content of the session and its processes. 

Working in Schools

Final Evaluation Report for Moor End Community Primary School and Creative Partnerships

Teacher Training Resource Pack for Moor End Community Primary School - NC Key Stage 2 Music

This resource will enable staff at Moor End Community Primary School to examine teaching strategies that will allow them to deliver aspects of the Key Stage 2 Music syllabus more creatively. The resource is also aimed at staff for whom music is not a specialism and would need guidance in classroom based facilitation techniques as opposed to the instruction based approach they already use. This pack accompanies a CPD training session, where all the issues raised in the resource can be discussed.

Teacher Training Resource and Learning Plans

Monitoring Sheet 1

Monitoring Sheet 2

Learning Plan Evaluation

CPD Training Day

 

Music Technology
 
Midi Grid + E-scape

Specimen Agenda for Preparatory Meeting for Training

Agenda for first supervision for New Trinity Training Centre and Drake Music Project

Specimen Reports
 

Final Drake Music Project Report

The Drake Music Project is an organisation that uses adapted Music Technology to allow people with disAbilities to compose and perform their own music.

Specimen Training Plan

Drake Music Project Training

Music Technology in Prisons

This project at Werrington YOI is at the half way stage at present. It seeks to examine and measure both the benefits of using Music Technology and its legacy as a Participatory activity in a Prison environment. This work is part of a larger project run by Sonic Db. The project is currently being externally evaluated by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the lead researcher is Dr Andrew Miles of Manchester University.

Final Evaluation Report for Music Technology Project at Werrington YOI - Phase 1

Final Training Evaluation Report for Music Technology Project at Werrington YOI and Keele University - Phase 1