How it Works

Through making music, young people who may be “failing” in school find that they can achieve. This is because:

• the community musicians, often “failures” at school, are role models who earn their living playing music
• the learning is pupil centred
• the young people choose their own music
• they go at their own pace, usually with an agreed learning plan
• they learn in an informal environment
• they succeed because in the CYMAZ workshop the fear of failure has been removed