These fascinating three-day courses for 14-19 year olds include workshops on songwriting, guitar styles, bass, keyboard skills, rhythm section basics, percussion, chord charts, voice and improvisation.

Bands will be formed, rehearsals will take place in a fully equipped space.

The Rockshop team will assist participants to create music of their own choice in an environment of absolute acceptance and encouragement. All styles. All standards.

Each Rockshop (one running August, 4, 5 and 8 and one August 6, 7 and 8, 9.30am to 5.30pm) is for 10 guitars, 10 bass players, 10 drummers, 10 vocalists, plus a mix of brass, woodwind and string players. Then on Friday, August 10, at 8pm at the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, both workshops showcase at The Big Night Out.

Brass, wind and string and unusual instruments are especially welcome, unfortunately, all drumming spaces are full.

Herbie Flowers played in the session-musicians' house band Blue Mink and co-wrote some of their hits with Cook & Greenaway.

He's known for his work with David Bowie, George Harrison and Marc Bolan. He also worked with Lou Reed on the Transformer Album and created the bass-line on Walk on the Wild Side.

In later years, he was to score his biggest hit as a composer with Grandad for Clive Dunn.

"Being a session-player," says Herbie Flowers, "is like being a truck driver – you're paid to arrive safely at your destination and that's it."

Herbie should know, as, alongside Chris Spedding, he was the most famous and celebrated session-musician of the '70s, playing with the hippest of the hip elite.

In 1977, he joined the final incarnation of T Rex and played on the TV show Marc, as watched by everyone who was anyone. His career has been unpredictable and he has been described as "the best British bass-player of the '70s" and "a complete wayward genius" and has played with David Essex, Tom Jones, Rolf Harris, Frank Sinatra and many more incredible artists.

Young people wishing to participate should email by clicking here