Autumn is here, windy and rainy weather followed by dark skies earlier in the day and the incoming Winter cold. With this it’s easy to look back and reminisce on the warmer times, Summer. Here at The Rhythm Studio we had a particularly busy Summer, whilst our Sixth Formers and our extra-curricular students took the six weeks off, we spent five weeks running our Rock and Roll Boot Camp courses.

Our Boot Camp programme takes the rockstars of tomorrow, forms them into bands with other people their age, then they learn songs and work together to perform them with our friends at Pizza Express Live in Holborn.

Over the course of the Summer programme we had around 50 bands formed, 100 songs learned, 5 concerts played to over 500 crowd members, made up of the students’ families and friends.

Whenever Boot Camp season rolls around it’s always super interesting to see which songs the bands pick, as all of the students come from varying musical backgrounds, and this Summer was no different. We had people from Jazz and Classical backgrounds, through to the more alternative Indie, Rock and Punk crowd. This didn't stop everybody getting along and picking tracks to perform that fed into everyone’s strengths.

The bands performed a wide variety of different genres from pure 90s Pop-Punk in the shape of Blink-182’s ‘All The Small Things’, mid 2000s Emo with Paramore’s ‘Misery Business’ and some modern Pop with Imagine Dragon’s hit ‘Radioactive’.

As a part of the weeks activities students also took part in our ‘Beat Camp’ project. ‘Beat Camp’ introduces the students to Music Production and allows them the chance to create their own music from scratch. Throughout the week they study different genres and styles of music and what makes each genre its own. Following this they will create their own tracks in whichever style they choose.

Want to get involved next year? Well good news! Sign ups are now available for the next wave of Rock and Roll Boot Camp. We have a week in February Half Term and two weeks across the Spring Break. Please see the dates listed below:

February Half Term: Monday 12th February - Friday 16th February 2024

Easter Week 1: Tuesday 2nd - Friday 5th April 2024 (4 Day)

Easter Week 2: Monday 8th - Friday 12th April 2024

Sign ups are available through this link