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Music classes in Hampstead Garden Suburb for 2-6 year olds. YMC Junior Musicianship Classes, Youth Music Centre, Loopla
Music classes in Hampstead Garden Suburb for 2-6 year olds. YMC Junior Musicianship Classes, Youth Music Centre, Loopla
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Youth Music Centre
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The Youth Music Centre was established in Bigwood House, Hampstead Garden Suburb in 1967 and since that time has become one of the foremost Saturday morning music schools in London. The essential aim of YMC is to welcome all children from the age of two to eighteen years into our community and to help them achieve their highest musical potential within a creative and happy environment, where they can come together to enjoy making music. YMC provides classes in musicianship skills for the very youngest children before they embark on instrumental lessons at the age of five or six. After a year of group lessons on the violin, viola, cello, double bass or recorder children are ready to have their first orchestral experience. We also provide theory classes up to grade 8 and voice/aural classes. We are proud to say that we have many children who stay with us for their entire music education.

YMC Junior Musicianship Classes in Hampstead Garden Suburb

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from £11.80 per session
Henrietta Barnet School, Bigwood House, Bigwood Road, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, NW11 7BD
Henrietta Barnet School, Bigwood House
Henrietta Barnet School, Bigwood House
Bigwood Road
Hampstead Garden Suburb
London
NW11 7BD
GB
2025-03-29
2025-03-29
10:00 - 11:30 Sat 29th Mar
from £11.80 per session
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Category Music
Ages Covered 2-6 Years
Booking required Yes

About YMC Junior Musicianship Classes

 These are pre instrumental musicianship classes which are organised into small groups for our youngest YMC members between the ages of 2-6 years.

These classes run every half hour through the Saturday morning arranged by age.

The aim of the classes is to explore the basic concepts of music ie. rhythm and pitch, while inviting different forms of expression (through music, speech, drawing, etc), developing the singing voice and offering the chance to play with various small musical instruments.

The class combines the Kodaly method – a system of corresponding syllable names and hand-signs to represent the intervalic relationship between the notes of any key, and rhythm syllables to express the duration of the note values – and the Orff method – a ‘child-centred’ approach which combines music, movement, drama and speech incorporating the use of small musical instruments and inviting improvisation.

Special attention is given to inner hearing, memorising, co-ordination and expressivity.

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About Youth Music Centre

The Youth Music Centre was established in Bigwood House, Hampstead Garden Suburb in 1967 and since that time has become one of the foremost Saturday morning music schools in London.

The essential aim of YMC is to welcome all children from the age of two to eighteen years into our community and to help them achieve their highest musical potential within a creative and happy environment, where they can come together to enjoy making music.

YMC provides classes in musicianship skills for the very youngest children before they embark on instrumental lessons at the age of five or six.

After a year of group lessons on the violin, viola, cello, double bass or recorder children are ready to have their first orchestral experience.

We also provide theory classes up to grade 8 and voice/aural classes.

We are proud to say that we have many children who stay with us for their entire music education.
Henrietta Barnet School, Bigwood House , London
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