MUSIC
MEDIA
services and tuition
Contact:
rob@matchmusicmedia.com
07500 114 208
MUSIC
Willow Springs is proud to offer workshops and music tuition, to spice up your holiday. Experience various musical traditions from around the world.
With your family or friends, book a group session in the barn, or under some trees, with drumming, gamelan, singing, kudu horns, Nyanga pipes, and more - you choose.
It doesn’t matter if you are a total beginner, or an advanced musician, for an hour or two you can experience music you might never have tried, or even heard of.
Robert Shipster is a professional musician with a collection of over 1000 instruments. He is also a music producer and film editor. He has toured with various bands, and also works as a music producer and film editor, composing music for films and adverts.
For over a decade, Rob has taught different types of music in schools and festivals, and now offers groups for you at Willow Springs.
Please get in touch to discuss a personalised plan for your wants and needs. Individual or group tuition, all is possible whilst you are on holiday at Willow Springs.
West African Drumming
Large groups, small groups, one to one tuition
Drumming and songs, from Ghana, Gambia, Mali and Senegal.
ONE TO ONE: £30
GROUP: £15 per person
Ceilidh Music
One to one tuition on how to play traditional music from the UK, and become a session musician.
Accordion, Fiddle, Bodhrán, Mandolin, Guitar
You will be playing Irish and Scottish Tunes in no time, and will leave with music materials to continue playing after your stay.
ONE TO ONE: £30
GROUP: £15 per person
Create a music track
Bring your instrument and / or voice - if not we have instruments
Recorded mix and mastered here at Willow Springs.
Use it as your soundtrack to your holiday.
£500
Film Editing
Hire Rob to make you professional content for your social media
Or learn to edit on Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Use your own footage to learn Adobe, and leave with content to post.
Please visit Rob’s website to see content he has worked on.
From £50
Nyanga Panpipe dance
One of the rarest musics in the world, and the most spine tingling.
Outer-body experience, with hypnotic polyphony on pan pipes from Mozambique.
Singing and blowing and dancing, at the same time!
Simple, but tricky, and very fulfilling - It’s truly magical stuff, and you won’t believe it.
£30 one to one
£15 per person for a group
Promo / Music Video
Employ Rob to film and edit you a video.
Please visit Rob’s website to see content he has worked on
From £200
Music Production tuition
If you want to create music, but you don’t know how to get started, Rob will show you, and it’s easier than you think!
Ableton, Logic Pro X,
Recording, Synthesis, EQing, Compression, Mixing and Mastering
How to get your tracks loud, but with a dynamic mix.
Please visit Rob’s website to see content he has worked on
From £50
Gamelan
One of the most disctinct musical ensembles in the world. The Balinese gamelan orchestra has long fascinted musicians, composers, and musical enthusiasts. Accessible for all levels, from total beginner, to advanced classical musician:
This music will never stop blowing people’s minds!
£30 one on one
£15 per person in a group
Podcasting
Have something to say?
Get a professional mixed recording, using quality mics, preamps, in soundproofed studio.
Mixed and mastered, ready for release.
From £50
The Magic of Mbira
Always wanted to learn the piano? Well… this is the thumb piano.
It’s easier, and you won’t believe how magical it sounds.
Music from Zimbabwe.
ONE TO ONE: £30
TWO PEOPLE £50
Drum Kit
Learn world drum grooves on Roland’s flagship electronic drum kit, or a Tama Starclassic Performer Birch Kit
The drum kit is Rob’s no. 1 instrument, and he started when before he could remember. You can start now, and will be drumming up a storm in no time.
ONE TO ONE: £30
Kudu horns
6 part polyphonic horn ensemble from Central Africa
For fanfare, and royal ceremonies.
Try not to laugh, but you will, because it’s too fun.
Each part on the horn is simple, and very easy to learn. Together the different pitched horns fuse together to form a hypnotic cycle of melodic polyphony.
GROUP: £15 per person
Live Looping
Looping is fun, easy, and now more accessible than ever!
You will be shown how to use the looper, Boss 505mkii
ONE TO ONE: £30
Ceilidh Sessions
Come and join our session
It’s the first Wednesday of each month. Anyone, of all abilities welcome.
Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English folk tunes
Trad singing
Learn folk singing from the British Isles, Europe, Africa, and Beyond
GROUP: £15 per person