| Sign up to this blog | |
| Go through the list of key dates with your parents/guardians and make sure they are in diaries | |
| Complete Performance initial proposals for your first music lesson | |
| Complete the Short History of Music tasks for your first music lesson | |
| Brush up on your basic theory: | |
| · Keys | |
| · Chords | |
| · Intervals | |
| Buy a ring binder | |
| Buy a pack of dividers (at least 10) | |
| Make sure your instrument is in good working order | |
| Make sure you have signed up for instrumental or vocal lessons at college or you have arranged weekly lessons with a private teacher approved by the college. | |