Author Archives: Richard Graham

Okayama Day Two – Interactive

The plan was to do a full day yesterday then today get the teachers to actually do some teaching. The idea being they’d have a nice safety net and I could give them lots of feedback now they were in the “it’s OK to make mistakes” frame of mind. I always knew this was going…

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Okayama Full Day One

Now this is what it’s all about! Instead of just a one or two hour introduction, this is a full on two day set of workshops where I can spend half a day going through the basics and confidence building, then spend the rest of the time showing new techniques and actually letting the teachers…

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Prep + Printable Plan

This coming week is a very big week with lots of workshops, starting with a 2 day one in Okayama. So there was a ton of prep work to do, to make sure I had all the materials with me to do any of the themes if asked. Also, after talking to the teachers last…

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Fukuoka Maruzen – Favourite Flop, the rest was good

Bookstore gigs in Fukuoka are always good, with a great bunch of teachers who all know each other and happily I know quite a few of them now as well. Today was the follow up to the CD5 preview gig I did in March. So to start off was When, When, When which they really…

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2 schools, Favourite Flavour

I got a call at 8:30 this morning asking if I could do a workshop at a school today. A little short notice but I know the head teacher so was cool. But he wanted it in the afternoon and I was already booked, which I explained, so he said “That’s OK, you can do…

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MTV!

Right, it’s still Summer so I want to do some fun work! So today CNN was banned, and it was MTV over breakfast. Then the rest of the day was spent recording and remixing songs for the new adults CD. And I’ve decided to try something a bit radical with this CD… People have been…

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