Feel Some Type of Wave 🎵🌊
Feel Some Type of Wave 🎵🌊
Feel Some Type of Wave is our newest project to date in collaboration with Grove Park Youth Club and funded and supported by Youth Music using public funding public funding by the Nation Lottery. Over 36 weeks our music studio sessions will invite local young people age 11-17, up to 21 SEND, to express themselves musically, support their wellbeing through their creativity and access a bespoke youth music studio.
The project is available every Thursday 6-8.30pm. Sessions will allow participants to learn and/or develop in songwriting, rap, vocals, beat making and programming, production, keyboards, using Logic Pro software, guitar, music video creation and more. The project is open to young people with or without musical experience.
Sessions start March 4th 2025.
For more info contact Annalise via email at annalise@beatslab.org
OR
Sign up via a GPYC membership form the link below 👇🏾 and attend any session
(all new young people to the youth club need to complete this form)
Participants of our project will gain weekly music studio access, learn to use the music studio, write songs/rap, make beats, play instruments and record, work on an original youth album, create content and music videos, release their music online, access vocal coaching for 9 weeks, perform live in our showcase event in December 2025 and gain extra wellbeing support via music facilitators and youth club well being team. Not to be missed! 🔥
This is a song and music video created from scratch in our sessions and shot by us for our very talented participant SWavy! His full song and music video is now live on our YouTube channel!
Key Dates
March 4th - Start of Music Studio sessions
June -September - Vocal Coaching
December TBC - Album Launch Party // Live Performances
Project Facilitator Team
Annalise Morley
Delivering sessions weekly
Songwriter/Producer
Annalise is the founder and project manager of Beats Lab. She has known some of our young people since the very beginning days of Grove Park Youth Club reopening in 2021 and has been making music with the GPYC community since then, therefore all GPYC projects are very dear to her heart!
This project Annalise will be undergoing Level 2 training in Child Counselling Skills to increase her ability to support wellbeing further than her current knowledge base in all things music creation.
Being the lead facilitator at Beats Lab she has observed that songwriting is a powerful tool for mental health as young people will often open up about things during the songwriting process.
Annalise is looking forward to expanding her skill set and better supporting the young people’s wellbeing in collaboration with the already brilliant youth club wellbeing team.
Nathan Opong
(CLOUD5/SUR NATE)
GPYC vocal coaching from June 2025
Singer/Songwriter & Producer
Nathan is an aspiring full time musician who has a love for sharing his knowledge of his journey thus far with others who are hoping to embark on the same career path in music.
Nathan will be drawing on his extensive experiences as a studio vocalist, songwriter and live performer to coach our young people and support them in creating their best and most confident vocal takes they can be proud of forever! He’ll also nurture them to develop new technical skills as vocalists and rappers.
Rudy Green
Delivering sessions weekly
Beat maker/Instrumentalist
Rudy is another proud member of the core Beats Lab team and enjoys supporting young people in their musical development throughout the course of our projects. Rudy’s skill set is an interesting area, ranging from playing the Kora, playing guitar, beat making using audio samples and DJing.
Rudy will be encouraging young people to get playing instruments and try out audio sampling in Koala app to invent brand new music of their own.
He’ll be drawing on his wide skill set to support young aspiring musicians to imagine and produce unique and wonderful sonic creations beyond what they thought would be possible!
