Contact Details & The Music Room

Home Telephone: 01661 83 55 88
Mobile Telephone: 07976 823 564
Main Email: richard@rhannam.orangehome.co.uk


A Relaxed Place To Learn
Number Of Lessons Given - 5000+ as at Feb 2010

Monday, November 26, 2007

Blog Update

I have recently given this Blog a complete overhaul.

You will notice that I have changed the colour scheme, made some text changes and, most important of all, added some useful and interesting web sites for you to visit.

I will be adding other information from time to time so please come back and visit regularly.

Your comments are always very valuable so please let me have your views and questions on any topic.

Regards and best wishes, Richard

What The Students Learn

Key~Skills Music

Student Work Programmes

** All students’ studies include:
- Correct fingering techniques
- Correct posture
- Musical theory
- Scales: separate hands & hands together in both contrary & similar motion
- Note reading in bass and treble clefs
- Associated Board of the Royal School of Music or other Graded work as required
- Both piano & keyboard playing techniques
- Playing with automatic rhythms & chords
- Elements of music technology
- Playing by ear - i.e. playing with both hands without music
- Use of chords in rhythmic styles including broken & arpeggio
- Chord construction techniques
- Musical styles e.g. Classical, Blues, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Cowboy, Chinese etc
- Instrumental styles e.g. Piano, Guitar, Violin, Bagpipes, Harmonica etc
- Introduction, fill in and ending techniques
- Improvisation
- Composition
- Performance skills including concerts

** Musical pieces & exercises are generally provided as part of the lesson fees. However, students can also bring their own pieces if they wish

** Free advice is provided on the purchase of suitable instruments & music

** During each lesson, pieces & exercises being worked on or completed are digitally recorded & dated. These recordings are saved in the student’s personal file & are available at any time to the student or family

** After each lesson, students receive a slip reminding them what to work on during the coming week

** A register of lessons attended & their dates is also maintained

** A combination of the digital recordings & lessons register enables students & their families to compare effort & progress with their investment in the lessons


Teaching Philosophy
* Making music should be fun
* It is more my responsibility to teach than the student’s responsibility to learn



© Richard Hannam, Key~Skills Music™ October 2006 Amended November 2007

How Do You Say It?

27 FAMOUS COMPOSERS’ NAMES........
.........and how you pronounce them!

CHOPIN - SHOW PAN
MOZART - MOATS ART
STRAUSS - STROUSE (as in 'house')
BEETHOVEN - BATE HOEVEN
TCHAIKOVSKY - CHY KOF SKEE
BACH - BARK
HANDEL - HANDLE
GRIEG - GREEG
BRAHMS - BRARMS
LISZT - LIST
DVORAK - VOR JACK
BIZET - BEE ZAY
PUCCINI - POO CHEENY
WAGNER - VARG NER
VERDI - VAIR DEE
DEBUSSY - DAY BOOSY
PURCELL - PER SELL
GOUNOD - GOO NO
HAYDN - HIDE IN
SCHUBERT - SHOO BERT
OFFENBACH - OFFEN BARK
DELIBES - DAY LEEBS
KHACHATURIAN - KAKA CHOO REANN
SCHUMANN - SHOO MAN
BORODIN - BORROW DIN
PAGANINI - PAG A NEENEE
WALDTEUFEL - NO IDEA!