REDEFINING MUSIC EDUCATION
WHY CONTINUO
Music Teaching is under digital pressure
At Continuo, we believe that teachers are the best way for most people to learn to play music. Teachers have the ability to apply experience and nuance to provide real time feedback and adjustment to the teaching approach, helping each individual student achieve their goals.
Unfortunately, their students are growing up digital-native, while the teaching environment has barely changed for hundred of years. At the same time, teachers are competing against a number of digital businesses trying to replace them with a purely digital learning process.
Practising is BORING
Nobody practises enough, or properly. It is boring. Without a teacher in the room, you often repeat mistakes, creating muscle memory that then needs un-learning.
Without practice, students don’t progress and without progress, they disengage from the whole process and they drop out of music all together.
THE CONTINUO TEAM
Chris Hawkins
Former financial professional now a full-time educator. A church organist in his younger days, has since directed and sung with various choirs in New York and London, performing in such venues as St Martin-in-the-Fields and St John’s Smith Square.
As passionate about music as he is about maths, he has delivered lectures on temperament, intonation and the maths of choral singing.
Will Smith
Corporate financier who has helped companies at all stages of growth to raise capital.
Previously a choral singer, trumpeter, cellist, pianist and chemical engineer, who has bored teachers with his theory that modern musical notation based on the C Major scale is inefficient and complicates the learning of musical relationships.
Scott Riseborough
Award winning technology leader bringing advanced music technology to market, including:
Jukedeck; a pioneering generative AI for creating music, acquired by TikTok in 2019
IRIS audio; audio-enhancing products to improve the listening experience
Internationally renowned professional vocalist and beatboxer and has worked with Madonna, Mark Ronson and Jake Bugg
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