About Us:

Hereford Music School



Professor PG Goodall (centre) and students

Hereford Music School is a community based establishment, focusing on local talent. Whether wishing to play purely for personal pleasure or to take exams, each student is treated as an individual.
We use the London College of Music syllabus for Rock, Jazz, and Classical.
We teach just about any instrument - as well as songwriting, performance, and voice coaching - on a 1-2-1 basis to get students started. Once they have the basics we put them together with others to build up the idea of teamwork, playing in groups, recording and performing.
We have several student bands - one has an average age of 15, and another of (remarkably) 11!
Students who develop as solo singer-songwriters often use other students as session musicians.

We have our own broadcast standard studio and a main contract for all our finished product to go out on all the major download stores. We also have our own record label - Speakeasy - named after the famous club of the '60's and '70's for which our Principal, Professor Goodall, used to be booker.
Our students come from all the surrounding counties - Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire, Powys, Shropshire, and Worcestershire, and several have gone on to the London College of Music and other London colleges, including the prestigious Italia Conti School of Music and Drama.

Our teachers include Professor Peter Goodall, who teaches guitars, studio technology and voice coaching, and a number of specialists in other instruments who come in as required.
Andy Williams, a former student, has recently returned from the London College of Music where he successfully completed the diploma course in drumming and percussion, and not only teaches drums and drum maintenance but is the drummer in Thunderclap. Andy also promotes live gigs locally with Richard Allen, who teaches bass and is the bass player in Thunderclap.
Nick Wilding, who has completed the degree course at the University of Bristol, teaches keyboards, performance and stagecraft, and lighting. Nick is also in Thunderclap.


 Our Record Label and download site

Once an artiste or group reaches broadcast standard, we shall be adding their recorded tracks to our own recording label called Speakeasy, named after the famous London club of the 60s and 70s of the same name.
Recordings will generally first be included in our website for downloading (to be launched in June 2007) and if they prove popular they will be issued on CD, through our global distributor.
You will learn how this process works, from manufacturing to artwork, mastering and distribution.


Learning about Publishing

You will also be fully inducted into the world of publishing, dispelling many myths through open access to the publishing accounts and methods we use as a publisher, and be introduced to the way our record pluggers work with radio and TV stations, and how our publicist works with the press and other printed media.

Learning professional level performance

You will also learn the art of successful performance - which is essential for live promotion of your work - through association with the many successful “name” musicians and groups to whom re are related, and the video division of our distributor, Voiceprint.

Finally for those who achieve initial success, we provide expert advice on the way forward and the pitfalls to avoid. There is no reason why a musician involved in an initial “one hit wonder” cannot develop a level of competence and expertise to survive in the music industry.

Contact Pete Goodall or any of the teaching staff for further information. (see contact page)