Courses and Workshops at the PMC

The Centre regularly runs music workshops and courses for the community, and wants to develop this area of work - so please get in touch if you have requests or proposals for training events, and bookmark this page to check in regularly on the latest schedule.

Band Lab
Starts Spring 2010

Following the huge success of our pilot Band Lab, we have submitted a bid to BBC Children in Need, which we hope will enable us to set up a regular programme of Band Labs, three times a year. This series of six workshops will be ideal for bedroom rock stars - anyone who has the passion, the instruments, the ideas - and just needs to find the rest of the band. Working with experienced musicians who can advise on the ups and downs of the music business, workshops will develop your skills on guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals, drum kit - and any other instruments you want to bring to the mix - and help you to build your own band. We'll look at what makes a band work, what you need to do to make it hold together, and give you some time in the studio to get experience of playing and recording together. For those interested to, there will be live performance opportunities at the end of each course.

If you'd like to join this course, please get in touch straight away to register your interest.
Call Amanda on 07751 786315, or email her at apickering@humphry-davy.cornwall.sch.uk, and we'll be in touch in the New Year if our bid to the BBC is successful - and in the meantime, check this out to get your ideas flowing:

www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Rock-Band

Penwith College, Penzance

As you  may have seen, Penwith College is currently undergoing big changes, with new buildings and facilities opening in the New Year. We shall regularly be posting news of courses which might interest musicians on offer at the College, - please contact Penwith College direct if you would like more details. 

Composing for the Media and Modern Composition January 2010
This course will take  place on Monday nights for ten weeks, starting on the 18th January 2010. This will be run by the company 'Music for Media', aka Andrew Harris, based in the Mac and Film suite at Penwith College. Click here for details.

Audio Engineering and Songwriting course
This course will start in April 2010, again one night a week, to be run by Dare Mason and Marty Wilson Piper. This will be run partly at VIP studios and partly at Penwith College’s new Music Department. (details to follow, please check back or contact the College).

Both courses give you 20 HE credits, and are taken from Truro and Penwith  College’s FdA programmes. Each course costs £250, but there is a range of funding available to support this for people both in and out of work (up to 100% of the fee paid)

If you’d like to know more, please contact Sarah Crook on 01736 335125 at sarahcrook@truropenwith.ac.uk  or Jo Davies on 01872 267502.

If you are interested in putting on a course or workshop at the Penwith Music Centre please let us know. Contact us here.