Learn to play music in a band and write your own songs.
Based on the cooperation of rhythmic music you will be taught in many musical areas.
At Vrå Folk High School you will be challenged on your instrument, your musical tastes, your theoretical basis and your basic understanding of the music.
You will receive lessons in: Cooperation. Music theory. Improvisation. Rhythm learning. Chord learning. Ear training. Music history. Songwriting.
You will experience tranquillity, but you will also experience being thrown into deep water sometimes, for example by instrument rotation, live concerts and CD capture.
Music at Vrå Folk High School is open to everyone – and does not require any former experience. You are welcome whether:You are a completely new beginner, or lower-intermediate and wish to receive a basicintroduction in playing music. You are an experienced musician or singer and wish to have a creative environment with numerous musical challenges and inspiration.
Vrå Folk High School has a vide variation of instruments, you can borrow for free. You are off course allowed to bring your own and to use the music studio 24:7.
In Songwriting at Vrå Folk High School, you write songs “from scratch”. To write a song, you will work with five ingredients.
- A text
- A melody
- A rhythmic groove
- A harmonic element
- An arrangement of sound that creates an overall impression
There are countless traditions and styles, which form the basis for how the five ingredients perform optimally together.
When the songwriting class creates “new,” we do so by studying and learning the know traditions and styles, so we areable to break them.
In practical terms, some hours do go to writing songs. Other hours go to listening to and learning about music. We will alsot ake the time to arrange each other’s songs and play them in the practice room. Sometime we record the songs in the studio.
Next semester is Autumn 2025 from August 10, 2025 – December 13, 2025
Teacher: Jimmy Guldbæk
Lives together with Stine Flyvholm, who is also a teacher at the school. Together they have four kids and have created the “no bullshit” blues and folk band Grace James.
Jimmy has taught music for many years and have played more than 2000 live gigs with several of Denmark’s most prominent musicians.
Teacher: Anders H.U. Nielsen
Anders H. U. Nielsen Anders is the lead singer in the band ‘Uhrskov and Andersen’ and has previously been a guest researcher and research assistant at the Center for Danish Jazz History at Aalborg University.
In addition, he has been radio director at Radio Aalborg and sang choir at the highest level, where he has travelled extensively and performed at concerts in many countries, inside and outside of Europe. Generally, he spans broadly from rock, blues, roots, jazz over electronica, dub and modern classical music.
Anders has been employed at Vrå Folk High School since 2008, and teaches songwriting and music theory.
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