Great starting the new year with a whole host of succesful musicians receiving recognition for their hard work. Harriet is a star and received Distinctions from The University of West London/London College of Music at debut and Grade One for Drums. Brilliant! The University of West London/London College of Music Examinations in partnership with Gigajam have created the Music Performance Qualifications for guitar, bass, keyboard and drums. Find out more here: http://www.gigaja

2016 is bringing up lots of new playing opportunities for rock band Space Elevator, which means I have a lot of fun gigs and recording to do with 3 of my favourite people. Dave Young - Guitar, Chas Maguire - Bass, The Duchess - Vocalist and our producer Adam Vanryne. We opened up the year with a home gig at Arts4evry1 in High Wycombe, which was huge fun, but was all about promoting the new single we have released. It is inconjunction with the charity Action on Addiction and

Happy New Year - I know that is a bit late so apologies. We may have made a new year resolution or just been reminded by the turn of the year that there is something we have wanted to do that is new. Perhaps by the 19th January we may have simply not got around it to yet...SO, if you want to learn to play a musical instrument, then I hope you find this helpful . http://blog.gigajam.com/new-year-resolution-learn-to-play/ - You could learn to play guitar, bass, keyboard and dru