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CREATIVE LEARNING
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Stirling Schools
Visual Arts & Craft Maker Awards 2021
About the Programme Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award (VACMA) offers small grants to visual artists and craft makers for...
Art
Adult Art & Painting
Classes take place online via video conferencing platform Zoom. Tutor Peter Russell returns with his immersive art and painting days,...
Art
The City Music Project
Workshop takes place online via video conferencing platform Microsoft Teams. Our Friday night songwriting group workshop returns! Working in a...
Music
Youth Guitar
Classes take place online via video conferencing platform Microsoft Teams. Got a guitar lying round the house that you’d like...
Music
Ukulele
Classes take place online via video conferencing platform Microsoft Teams. The Ukulele is super fun, super easy, and a brilliant...
Music
Welcome to the Tolbooth’s online music-making resources!
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Songwriting Challenge – Using Photographs
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Songwriting challenge – Aleatoric Music
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Ukulele – Lesson 1
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Ukulele – Lesson 2
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Ukulele – Lesson 3
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Quiz #1 – popular music & music theory
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Intro to DIY music culture
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Backing track – Indie Rock
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How to use the Indie Rock backing track
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Songwriting challenge – Writing a song from your corner of the world
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Songwriting challenge – Writing lyrics
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Digital music-making – Lesson 1
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Digital music-making – Lesson 2
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Digital music-making – Lesson 3
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New music discovery – Euros Childs
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Scots Sang – Nursery to Primary 3
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Scots Sang – Primaries 4 to 7
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Backing track – Pop Ballad
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How to use the Pop Ballad backing track
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Keys/Piano – Lesson 1
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Keys/Piano – Lesson 2
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Keys/Piano – Lesson 3
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Songwriting challenge – Writing a vocal melody
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Backing track – Electronic/Dance
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How to use the Electronic/Dance backing track
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Songwriting challenge – The Alphabetter Boogie
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Quiz #2 – Pop Music
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TCMP Schools Outreach songs
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Exploring rhythm in popular songs
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A Brief History of Music Formats
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Songwriting challenge – 30 words, 3 chords
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Quiz #3 – Becci’s Big Disney Quiz!
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Playlist challenge – Peaceful/Relaxing music
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Songwriting challenge – Free writing
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Songwriting challenge – Complex rhyme schemes
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Chanter – Lesson 1
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Chanter – Lesson 2
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Chanter – Lesson 3
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Backing track – Hip hop
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How to use the Hip Hop backing track
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Digital music – making beats out of household objects
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Recycled percussion – My Shaker
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Playlist challenge – Alternative music
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Using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) – Lesson 1
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Using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) – Lesson 2
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Using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) – Lesson 3
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Playlist challenge – Piano songs
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Bass guitar – Lesson 1
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Bass guitar – Lesson 2
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Songwriting challenge – ‘Cafe’ chorus
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New music discovery – Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5
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Music ‘Royalties’ – how musicians get paid
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Cover songs and ‘authenticity’
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Women in Scottish music scenes – Jo Mango
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How DIY recording technology revolutionises music
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The story of hip hop and hip hop in Scotland
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The story of Britpop
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Guitar – Lesson 1
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Guitar – Lesson 2
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Guitar – Lesson 3
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Women in the Music Industry
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Campfire song #1 – ‘Stand By Me’
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Campfire song #2 – ‘Three Little Birds’
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Write your own Protest Song
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ARTi-play #1: Photo Montage
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ARTi-Play #2 – Animal Drawing
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ARTi-Play #3 – Imaginary Animal
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ARTi-Play #4 – Flowers In Bloom
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Hearing Sounds
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Seeing Sounds
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A Made Up Scale
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Play Your Kitchen
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The Alphabet Song
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Auld Lang Syne
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ARTi-Play #5 – Pattern: Repeat, motif, overlap
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ARTi-Play #6 – Numbers Abstract Tonal
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