Music making

Can technology make music more accessible?

The ‘ReHarp’, a digital instrument designed to support rehabilitation following a stroke or brain injury, is showing how innovation can make music more inclusive, and allow creativity and expression to become a part of recovery.

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Five ways music can support people with learning difficulties

This Learning Disability Awareness week, our music therapists share how how music can provide support to people with learning difficulties.

A folder of sheet music is open, with a group of people in the background during a music therapy session.

World Hearing Day: Five tips for music-making with hearing loss

Music therapist Anna, shares her top tips for making music with people who are hearing impaired. Find out more, from instruments to lighting.

A selection of handheld bell instruments in bright red, yellow, orange, pink and blue are on top of a table next to a tambourine. The background of the image is deliberately blurred but there are some people sat down in front of a window.

Making music without traditional instruments: 4 different ways

There really are endless ways to make music and sounds using things that you may already have access to. Find out how, and get creative.

How music therapy helped Ruthie express their LGBTQ+ identity

Music therapy provided a space for Ruthie to express their LGBTQ+ identity. This National Coming Out Day, we're sharing their song.

Pieces of paper sit on top of a keyboard. The first contains musical notes, with "Rise Up" written at the top. Underneath is a lyric sheet, with the first line reading "We're sharing a Christmas".

Eight top tips for budding songwriters

Jo Humphreys, Nordoff and Robbins music therapist, shares her top tips for approaching the songwriting process.