Just pick up the beat! ♪

Just pick up the beat! ♪

Artpeggios is a brand new school of Music, Art and Performance that just opened on Earl’s Court Road, only 15 minutes walking or two tube stops from the Lycée. It offers a unique approach to music tuition with lessons that suit people of all abilities so that anyone can easily learn to master an instrument.

It is different in the sense that it isn’t a ‘traditional’ school – it is flexible and aims to be as fun as possible so that students enjoy themselves, and music and art become a pleasure rather than a chore. Lessons last between 30 minutes and an hour and are available in small groups of up to 4 so it’s a great opportunity to meet people with the same interests and learn in an entertaining way. 

The school’s 400 m² are filled with band practise and one-to-one lesson rooms, DJing facilities, instruments, a recording and a composition studio and much more. Artpeggios’ teachers are talented, very friendly, and from diverse backgrounds, and the variety of courses it has to offer is huge. The most popular are guitar, piano, drums and singing lessons as well as Fine Art and DJing.

I interviewed Max Cartoux, who is a Lycée student as well as a DJ teacher at Artpeggios.

“DJing is using your creativity to make people dance”

Max started music when he was 4 and it has always been vital to him. It is something he cannot live without, his personal fuel to keep going. He sees DJing as “using your creativity to make people dance”, which is his favourite aspect of being a DJ: “seeing everybody dancing, jumping and screaming- listening to what you produce”. Of his achievements so far, those that he most enjoyed were mixing live for a radio station and hearing feedback from professionals, which he describes as “priceless”.

 “Teaching stands for sharing”

Max thinks Artpeggios is different because it isn’t just about teaching; it is about sharing creativity with new people, which is his favourite part of being a teacher there. He loves seeing students smiling because they are “living their dreams.”

He thinks the facilities are great and that “if you like playing music, this is the place to go!” Being an artist himself, Artpeggios is where he would have loved to spend his early music years. He also enjoys working with the Artpeggios team and believes all the staff and professional teachers are incredibly dedicated to what they do.

-Sophie Latham.

Check Max's Music : www. cartoux soundcloud.com/max

ARTPEGGIOS

+44 (0)20 7244 45 70

info@artpeggios.com

www.artpeggios.com

198-200 Earl’s Court Road
SW5 9QF
LONDON