How it Works
You can purchase Sound Schooling's downloadable lessons from the View Lessons page. The lessons vary in length but are generally between 15 and 20 minutes long, to enable you to focus on a particular schooling area once you have warmed-up. Lessons are optimised for use in a 20x40m school.
Listen to a taster sample lesson by British Dressage trainer and List 1 Judge Kim Ratcliffe, by using the player below.
Listening to your lesson
Once you've purchased a lesson from the website, you'll receive a link to the MP3 file. You will need to save the file onto your computer, then transfer it to your MP3 player (for example, by importing into iTunes). Our FAQs page will give you more information on this.
Once the audio lesson is on your MP3 player you're ready to listen to it while riding. Make sure you're in a safe schooling environment - do not listen to audio lessons whilst hacking, make sure you can still hear external hazards and tuck your MP3 player headphone lead away so it can't catch on anything.
If you don't like the traditional MP3 player earphones that sit in your ears, you can buy headphones that sit behind your neck and hook over your ears to hold them in place. They don't move around in walk, trot and canter and you can take them on and off without having to remove your riding hat.
Finally, if you're not using a Sound Schooling warm-up session, make sure you and your horse are properly warmed up before starting any of the schooling sessions.
