Gold Seal Support London Probation Learners

Following a mass of experience in successfully working with people who have not traditionally engaged with education or employment Gold Seal approached London Probation to see if we were able to further extend our remit to help those involved with London Probation learning schemes and offered a 30 hour accredited course under OCN syllabus which covered making music and sampling techniques.





The course was well attended with attentive, motivated learners that were eager to explore and gain useful information on new and emerging music technology practices. The course ran for 10 weeks at London Probations largest site in Europe with mobile workstations and all who completed the course now have the opportunity to further their learning locally in Stratford using a variety of further education options as well as look to progress into employment and plan music careers around their skills learnt to date.





All who attended worked hard and are testament to the program's core aims which are to empower learners to feel motivated by a new and emerging practices, identify transferrable skills as well as better themselves using music as a vehicle to engage and progress from.





With lots of positive, constructive feedback we are excited about being able to get more workshops running and look to the future where more learners will be able to reap the benefits of Gold Seal music technology training else where across the capital at London Probation sites.

If you are interested in any of our training programmes please call us on 020 8743 0009 or email info@goldsealproject.com and for more information check out our website www.goldsealproject.com

DJ B Supports east London DJ's in the making

Following a string of successful workshops at east London's Haggerston Youth Inclusion Project, during summer 2009, young people gathered to learn new mixing and DJing skills using a brand new mp3 DJing workstation at the Kingsland Road base for young people in the Haggerston area.





All who attended gained valuable tuition on setting up a DJ's workstation, tips and tricks on various mixing practices and scratching as well as how to record your own mixtape for demos etc.

The workshops were a hub of creativity and all the young people involved commented on how they felt the DJing allowed them to explore music in a new format.





The grand finale saw young people going to top east London venue The Vibe Bar on Brick Lane where they went back to back with 1xtra RnB DJing sensation DJ B who has supported acts such as Kano, Kanye West, Wiley and many many more. The two hour mix was recorded and has been used to help promote the young people looking for jobs and extra DJing work.





For further details on any music course please contact 020 8743 0009 where someone can help talk you through our options or check www.goldsealproject.com for more info.

Jammer supports Haggerston's Talent

On the 18th March, Grime legend Jammer came to Brick Lane's VIBE BAR to help summarise and celebrate the hard work of the young people of Haggerston Youth Inclusion Project who completed a music course with the Gold Seal Project recently.





The event involved a seminar and live performance that helped the young people get a first hand, realistic insight into the music industry. All who attended had the opportunity to talk up close and personal with the established grime artist about the musical ups the downs, do's and dont's, personal experience, planning a career and witness a 15 minute PA of his latest material that can be seen soon in stores and shows across the world.





Jammer handed out the young peoples qualifications personally and commended them for their hard work to date.





The event was a smash hit and all who attended commented on how they found it useful and informative.





We look forward to the DJing course which will run during the summer of 2009.





For more info on any of the Gold Seal Project courses please check our website

Tinchy Stryder in studio!!

Fresh off the back of his recent top 10 hit, Tinchy Stryder popped down to the project studio's to lay some bars with none other than Ruff Sqwad's finest Fuda Guy.

It was a heavy session but unfortunately nothing that we are allowed to give ya to hear.However,we wish him good luck in his future work - his current success couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!

Support the cause by buying his current single Take me Back ft Taio Cruz and what we do have are some pics of him in studio below!!

Rugby Portobello Trust and YCTV Smile Project

Finally we have a copy's of the hard work completed by the young people of Kensington & Chelsea that completed the summer Smile projected hosted at new media company YCTV's base.

The project was set to engage young people between the ages of 13-19 in Kensington & Chelsea to provide creative, constructive activities for them during their summer holidays. Special thanks goes to Derek @ Rugby Portobello Trust and Erin @ YCTV who sought funding to put the program together.

The theme for the course was to look at what makes the young people smile, to help spark some enthusiasm for those that may be surrounded by negative outputs in their day-to-day life.

Over the first 2 weeks of August, the Gold Seal team set about providing a producer and engineer who would help the young people capture their ideas musically, learning some of the practices required to create a track for them to write to and eventually record vocals. Needless to say, the young people set about working hard and 3 great tracks were created with vocals to inspire peers and demonstrate the practices required to complete this kind of task.

Check the final videos out below and see what hard work accomplishes!!







For details on projects similar to this please check the website or call the office today on 020 8743 0009 for a full assessment and exclusive program.

1XTRAS DJ B helps DJing @ Haggerston Youth Inclusion Project

Following the success of last years music project at Haggerston's Youth Inclusion Project, where we incorporated DJing supplier Stanton to help buy the site some industry leading equipment. This year we put together a 45 hour course that would help 10 young people from South Hackney gain 3 accredited units each to reinforce the skills learnt. After some valuable lessons from the previous year, the team were set to provide a course that offers more constructive activities for young people in the borough.

The program devised saw top UK 1Xtra Radio DJ, DJ B help open the course and incorporated him as a tool to engage and inspire the young people to make constructive life choices and learn new creative skills.

Needless to say the course had good uptake and the young people set about learning everything from setting up the turntables, to beat matching, mixing skills, scratching and even some basic beat juggling. Check the pics below and for any budding DJ's in the making there is also some DJing tips listed on the blog to help improve your skills.

The grand finale finished at top local east London night club Herbal. Special thanks goes to the whole team there who accommodated us at short notice and helped make it a special event for all those that attended. Once again 1Xtra's DJ B joined us again to go back to back with the young people to help create a memory to last for all those that finished the course.

18 qualifications were issued and we look forward to next years course where we hope to offer a similar program for south Hackney based young people.

For more details on any Gold Seal courses please check the website and contact the office on 020 8743 0009 for a full assessment of your needs and an exclusive tailored program.

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