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Live performance is great for kids suffering from every day anxiety. Otto plays guitar in one of our young bands (10 years old) and his...

Live performance tips: The main thing to focus on is having fun. It doesn’t matter how many people come to your show all that matters is...

Tuning a guitar. There are a few ways to tune a guitar and today we are going to look at three of them.. 1. From an instrument like a...

Putting a bit of graphite or pencil lead in your nut can really help with tuning. The strings slide through the nut uninterrupted making...

Are guitarists the coolest of all the musicians or is it all in their heads? Interesting belief but really the coolest of all the...

Holidays are just around the corner! Do you have any young guitarists, singers or keyboardists keen to play some music in the holidays?...

April dates: Week 1: 15th, 16th and 17th. Week 2: 23rd, 24th and 26th. Book at: http://www.therockacademy.co.nz/contact/ Or email:...

Practice what you preach. The owner of The Rock Academy is still playing live and doesn’t intend on stopping anytime soon. Oh and he...

Nick V one of our fantastic guitar teachers here with the busking group during the school holidays. Nick is amazing and can play/teach...

Luke has been busking a few times now and is ready for the next challenge…joining a band! It is something every young musician should...

Six sing bass? Why not? It’s lots of fun playing a six string bass as apposed to a four stringed bass. More strings, more notes, more...

Liv Calder is a young singer headed for the top. This girl has a great future with her voice. A very relaxed mature disposition and a joy...

Music Lessons Wellington – The Rock Academy focuses on finding the offer a half price trial lesson to make sure the pupil and the tutor...

You must be sick of the kids by now surely If you need some space and they need to burn some energy off please let us know, we have two...

Surely the kids are driving you crazy by now The kids can really boost their confidence and ability with the non stop playing and daily...

Music is a great activity for the school holidays. Holiday programmes with us or just jamming with friends. We have two programmes...

Kids activities in the school holidays can be great for both the kids and parents. Being a parent myself I know that looking after kids...

The Lyall Bay guitar and ukulele pupils performed at the Good in the Hood picnic on the 1st of December 2018. It was an amazing day of...

I’ve been teaching music for 28 years now and the longer I teach the more I realize that practice for kids under the age of 10 is not so...