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- Performance anxiety: A practical guide for music teachers
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- Setting your tuition fees: 2019
- Health and wellbeing series: Looking after yourself on tour
Videos
- Video: Emotional body: How to use Feldenkrais to self-regulate
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- Video: Music teaching for blind children with Amber Sound Touch
- Video: Jaxsta Pro: A valuable promotional tool
- Video: Understanding the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
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- Video: Performance anxiety: A practical guide for music teachers
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- The Empowered Musician: Nuts and bolts panel session
- The Empowered Musician: Digital futures panel session
- The Empowered Musician: Looking after yourself panel session
- The Empowered Musician: Making it happen panel session
- Video: PRS Foundation’s funding fundamentals
- Video: No-deal Brexit: what it could mean for musicians
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- Video: Exam Board Series: RSL
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- Video: Composing, doodling, improvising: encouraging children’s own music in primary schools
- Interview: Sir James MacMillan In Conversation at ISM Members Day 2018
- Video: Play: Optimising your musical performance
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- Video: Sexual harassment & discrimination: know your rights
- Video: What is GDPR and how will it affect you?
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- Georgia Hannant. My ISM is flexible
- Bushra El Turk. My ISM is tailor-made
- James Mainwaring. My ISM is independence
- Kit Downes. My ISM is security
- Pippa Reid-Foster. My ISM is foundation
- Video: Prevent and overcome performance-related injury
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- ISM Members' Day 2017: Mark-Anthony Turnage in conversation
- Video: A practical guide to composing and arranging music for the KS3 classroom and school ensemble
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- Video: BAPAM Health Tips for Musicians
- ISM music graduates - what happened next?
- Protect Music Education. ISM conference 2014
- Nicolas Chisholm gives advice to headteachers. ISM conference 2014
- Julian Lloyd Webber concerns over proposed music funding cuts. ISM conference 2014
- Why should we protect music education? ISM Conference 2014
- Make Music Work event panel discussion: The idea’s the thing
- Make Music Work event panel discussion: Making something from nothing
- Make Music Work event panel discussion: The jury's out
- Video: Which way now? GCSE music challenges and choices
- Video: Life after levels: A guide to progression, curriculum and assessment
- Video: Primary music – a unique insight
- Video: Progression, curriculum and assessment
- Video: Progression, curriculum and assessment 2
- Interview: Tips from music teacher Stephanie Reeve
- Interview: Tips from performer Chris Woodham
- Interview: Tips from composer Chris Roe
- Video: An introduction to tax for musicians
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- Video: Setting your tuition fees
- Gerald Finley. My ISM is dynamic
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- Philip Herbert. My ISM is visionary
- Ed Scolding. My ISM is plugged-in
- Suzi Digby OBE. My ISM is community
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