Welcome to YRock School - Lets Rock.
One Week Courses
Running throughout most school holidays we run a variety of workshops focused on getting young people playing together in bands. We cover improvisation, song writing, live performance and more...
Ages 11+
Our courses are flexible and tailored to the needs and abilities of the young people, whether they've only been playing for a few weeks or have several years experience, we'll make sure everyone has a great time....
Bespoke Education Projects
We offer bespoke projects that cover all aspects of the Creative Industries as well as looking at personal development, enterprise and employability skills in young people.
Our course runs at the award winning Glasgow Music Studio‘s in Glasgow’s Merchant City.
The course covers:
- Live performance
- Song Writing
- Music Theory
- Improvisation
- Plenty of Jammin’
Recent portfolio
Hear Glasgow Mentoring
Hear Glasgow! teamed up with YRock to bring you the Hear Glasgow! Mentoring Scheme. For ten weeks between April – August 2012 our ten mentees will work with their mentor who they have been matche...Hear Glasgow New Music Creation
Our aim with this project was to facilitate the collaborative development of classical and contemporary musicians, during the process of cross genre music compositions. Our key delivery goals were as follows: Networking and improvisation ...Epic Solo (St Roch’s Secondary School)
We worked with St Roch's Secondary School to create a music & enterprise project. The students wrote and recorded their own song, set up their own record label (Epic Solo), and ran workshops with local Primary Schools in conjunction with students...Lourdes Secondary
The schools music department had been given funding in 2004 to build a recording studio within the upper floor of the main school building. In 2008 the teaching staff changed and new staff had no training in the use of the recording facilities. The e...Glow (St Paul’s Secondary)
We worked with St Paul’s Secondary School to create a music & enterprise project. The students wrote and recorded their own song, set up their own record label (Glow). The students wrote and recorded a song about "Wee old Charlie" which told a ...Fresh4Music (Hillhead Secondary)
YRock worked with Hillhead Secondary to create an in-house record label that took advantage of the schools very own recording studio. Students wrote songs, recorded the songs, promoted their event and worked with St Roch's Secondary to run workshops ...Colours (Hillpark Secondary School)
Sense Over Sectarianism work across Glasgow to enable people to challenge the existing attitudes, behaviour and assumptions which contribute to bigotry, sectarianism and division within society. Hillpark Secondary School brought their award winnin...O2 Think Big
In 2009 we were given funding to create 3 videos for Glasgow based bands. Each video consisted of a short interview and was used by the bands as promotional material. Click here for more in for...
