Jazz Ensemble 1
This Jazz Ensemble class will examine and develop a repertoire of standard tunes and arrangements for you to develop your performance skills and confidence within the ensemble.
This group will work at a lower intermediate level.
Jazz Guitar - Intermediate
If you are a guitarist who is already competent in other styles, or has recently started to play jazz, this course will equip you with the basic technical skills and musical knowledge for playing jazz on the guitar.
The course is "hands-on", designed to help you develop your guitar technique and expand your knowledge of chords, scales, arpeggios and melodic patterns on the guitar. From the start you will learn to play jazz tunes - their chord progressions and melodies - and begin to improvise on them. You will receive guidance in developing your improvisation, accompaniment and performance skills and an understanding of music theory. We also study the work of the major jazz guitarists and other leading jazz artists.
Jazz Guitar - Advanced
Your course will support and further explore all aspects of your jazz guitar playing and you will be comfortable playing jazz standards and wish to further develop in a supportive but challenging environment at a more advanced level. This course is run at the Jazz School at our Richmond site in London
Jazz Saxophone - Intermediate
On this exciting practical course, you will further explore all aspects of your jazz saxophone playing. You will be comfortable playing some jazz standards and wish to develop in a supportive but challenging environment at a more advanced level.
Watercolours & Drawing from Scratch
A course suited to the complete beginner in watercolour painting, introducing the basic techniques required in order to gain some confidence and mastery of the medium
Painting & Drawing from Scratch
This course is for absolute beginners or those with little experience in drawing and painting. It is aimed at giving you an introductory grounding in drawing and painting and providing the tools and techniques for you to continue practising independently or within one of our more advanced courses.
Taster - Access to Humanities
Access courses are designed to give adult learners the necessary study skills and subject knowledge to go on to a Degree at a University. This course will give you a day in the life of an Access student.
Photography Pearson Level 3 Certificate
Our BTEC Level 3 Certificate in Photography is designed to give you the specialist knowledge, skills and understanding you need to progress towards professional practice or further academic study of Photography. You will gain an in depth experience of the techniques, disciplines and issues within the contemporary Photography field, and will use this to build a portfolio for application to higher level courses or your own professional practice.
Great Artists in Focus
Join Nick Pearson, artist and lecturer for a weekly in-depth look at a particular artist?s work. These lively slide lectures will give anyone the opportunity to concentrate on and appreciate a particular artist?s work with the expert guidance of an artist and art historian from the college?s School of Ideas.
Saturday Ceramics - All Levels
Have you always wanted to have a go at ceramics? Then this course is for you.
This is a general ceramics course which covers one or two methods of handbuilding pots, as well as throwing on the potter’s wheel. Interspersed with this you will learn several decorating and firing techniques.
