The Trade Me managers were blown away with The Rock Academy team building workshop. Jimmy McGee, Head of Commercial rated the event as a...

The Rock Academy’s last day was ‘such a buzz’ according to young participants Conor and Wiley. The last hour is a big concert with...

It’s amazing to see the speed that pupils learn music these days. Young pupils are exposed to more media that involves musical...

Part of learning a musical instrument or learning to sing happens together with the tutor.  When a pupil connects with a tutor, quite...

Yes 5 to 10 minutes a day is all it takes to progress with guitar. Remember to leave your guitar out of its case. And place it somewhere...

Here’s a band of 12 year olds who Ive had the pleasure to work with for the last 4 years. Mindfire recorded Victory at Matrix studio 2013...

Guitar pupils Kaleb, Jacob and Russell made a handy $54.90 busking in the weekend and donated it all to their class book fund! I’m...

One of my guitar and singing pupil’s mum’s just sent me this about empowering girls with awesome music ‘100 girl empowering...

Hi all Enough people have expressed interest for a holiday programme in Decemeber and we are all go. The Holiday programme offers young...

Hi all We have had a lot of inquiries regarding our school holiday programme opening for the last week of December, 17th-21st. At this...

Research is coming out of America stating that children’s confidence can increase up to 35% when they learn a musical instrument. I have...

Dad on guitar, big brother on drums, sister sings and plays guitar, little brother on key boards and mum on tamborine. There has been a...

The July holiday programme looks set to be the best yet! We’ll continue to go busking each day. We are also looking to record every day...

In short yes. There are some advantages and some disadvantages. ADVANTAGES: The strings are lower to the fret board. This makes it easier...

Hi Viv That is fantastic that your son (11) he is starting to teaching himself guitar! Not many people do this so he must really have...

Hey there Geoff, Hope things are well… Its hard to fathom that almost a month has gone by since the last school holiday program–where...

A must view for any young rocker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhoidUaNT4&feature=related

I would just like to say how well all the boys performed during The Rock Academy’s Jan 2012 school holiday program. Their behavior was A+...

What draws us to the guitar? Is it the vibration of our physical being? Is it the way our ear drums are individually made up? Chances are...