We are delighted to formally announce the appointment of James Hannay as Area Associate for Mix Music Education in London. James has actually been working with Mix Music Education formally for the last 12 months. He met Dan at the inaugural Music Education Expo and they immediately struck up a friendship. Over the coming monthsread more …

Five years ago I took the giant leap to leave the classroom. To paraphrase the great Martin Luther King, “I had a dream!”. It was born from my own experiences of classroom music lessons at Secondary & Further Education. As I entered music college, I reflected over my time flowing through the system as aread more …

I spent a huge part of my classroom music career delivering whole class percussion lessons. One of the biggest frustrations the primary schools I was working in then had, was they had a huge desire to deliver a vibrant music curriculum, but a limited budget to do it with. We used to start our programsread more …

In my classroom teaching career, one of the biggest challenges i felt was how we best introduced the learning of melody. recently i have been really impressed with the engagement touchscreen apps are empowering, but of course they are not a real keyboard. so i’ve been wondering is there a way to effectively transition appread more …

Five years ago we formed Mix Music Education with a vision to provide appropriate, engaging, all inclusive music educational programs that would allow schools to transform their music departments. The Roland Handsonic 10 formed a huge part of our initial JamPod™ program. Last year a new model appeared, the Handsonic 20. We felt this wasread more …