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Online music tuition, mentoring and consultancy service, yourmusicmentor.com is currently offering a 25% fee reduction for all its services, exclusively to jm-education.
To benefit from this offer, simply send them your full name and state whether you are a student or teacher and you will receive a unique voucher code which can be redeemed against any service.*
*Vouchers can only be used once and are not transferable. Under 18’s require adult permission.
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21 music resource books by jm-education: including manuscript and tab paper, chord boxes and fretboard grids for 6, 5 & 4-string instruments and lesson logbooks
Published in January 2020, this fully up-to-date book for the Higher Music course is compiled in a similar format to the previous ‘How to Pass’ music books by Joe McGowan (published by Hodder Gibson). The new book features musical concept revision, music literacy, a specimen question paper, composing workshop and an extended chapter on practising and performing music, as well as a wealth of study tips and exam advice.
An added bonus with this new book is that POD and e-Book publishing mean that any changes to the curriculum can easily be added to the text at any time, ensuring that the book will ALWAYS be up-to-date!
The jm-education Guide to Composing Techniques: Minimalism. ‘Infinite Circles’
Published in December 2023, this step-by-step composing workshop interactively guides the student through the processes involved in creating a multi-track instrumental composition based on the style of minimalism using a Digital Audio Workstation as a composing and production tool.
Supported by online video and audio resources, musical references, notation examples and professional tips, this creative project uses straightforward techniques and shortcuts for composing a coherent, professional-sounding piece of music, with only a minimum level of musical knowledge required.
Ideal for Higher, Advanced Higher and A-level students.
5 video tutorials covering all of the current Higher Music concepts are now available on the jm-education YouTube channel. Click here to navigate to the videos.
Second Edition of How to Pass National 5 Music
The new, revised edition of How to Pass National 5 Music
This revised edition reflects the changes made to the National 5 Music course, ensuring teachers and students alike have accurate and relevant resources.
This appeal was set up to benefit the following charities:
MacMillan Cancer
Children in Need
Unicef
NSPCC
St Andrew’s Hospice
Save the Children
Oxfam
Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland
We have set a target fund of £250 for each charity, which we can achieve with YOUR help. Please consider donating just a single pound to any of these charities, which will be very helpful in pushing us towards our targets.
You can donate by accessing the Just Giving pages set up by jm-education for each of the charities - see the Charity page on this website for details.
You can see the funds raised so far by accessing our Just Giving pages and, if you wish, choose to have your name added to the list of donators.
21 Music Resource Books from jm-education
Music Manuscript Paper Books (6, 10, 12 or 14 staves per page)
Music Manuscript Paper Books with Treble and Bass Clefs
Music Tab Paper Books for 4, 5 and 6-String Instruments
Chord Box & Fretboard Grid Books for 4, 5 and 6-String Instruments
Music Staff &Tab Paper Books for 4, 5 and 6-String Instruments
Backing tracks for students to practise improvising
jm-education has prepared two backing tracks in different styles and keys for music students to practise improvising over.
These can be found on the jm-education YouTube channel (click here), or by accessing the Improvising page of this website (part of the National 5 supplementary material).
Note: a video on basic improvisation techniques can also be found on the jm-education YouTube channel. Click here.
