Group Music Classes & Ensembles

In a 9-Week group lesson format, students will learn the basics of vocal sound production, build confidence in their performance skills, and discover a supportive singing community. Students will begin to explore their voices as musical instruments, with an approach rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and playfulness. No prior singing or musical experience required. If you’ve always wanted to learn the basics of singing, then this is the right place for you!

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This 9 week course will cover the most basic rudiments of music theory. Note identification on the grand staff, use of accidentals, intervals, major scales up to 3 sharps and 3 flats, chord spelling and basic harmonic function in the major key. Simple meters, rhythmic notation in quarter note based meters through the eighth note, ties and the rhythm dot. Class will include analysis of music and practice of aural skills that focus on hearing the scale steps and intervals of the major scale as well as identifying and transcribing basic rhythms. Perfect for college prep!

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Learning Guitar can be simple and fun!!!

In this class, we will learn the Fundamentals of the Guitar. We will learn how to tune a guitar, hold a guitar, and strum a guitar. We will learn about all the different components of the instrument: the neck, the body, the frets, the headstock, and the sound hole.

The chords C, D, G, F, A, Em, Am and Fm will be taught. These chord shapes will be used to play songs by The Beatles, Taylor Swift, The Arctic Monkeys, and other popular artists. We will utilize the Major Scale to create melody.

No prior Guitar or musical knowledge is necessary and by the end of this course, you will be able to play and create music on the guitar!

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Never picked up a ukulele but want to learn? This entry level class is for you! Geared for musicians ages 13 & up, this class covers the basics of how to hold, tune and play a ukulele: learn basic chords, on simple songs to start out with, and singing and strumming. You don’t have to know anything about music before you get started, this is geared to the absolute beginner!
Prerequisites:

• A working ukulele
• Tuner (electronic tuner or phone app)

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This class is for anyone ages 13 & up who already play the ukulele and are interested in improving their skills by learning more chords, strum patterns, tablature and basic fingerpicking techniques. The focus of this class will be on learning left hand dexterity for chords and right hand strumming and fingerpicking skills. We’ll also learn different ways to interpret and perform songs. Bring your own ukulele and let’s have some fun!

Prerequisites:

• A working ukulele
• Tuner (electronic tuner or phone app)
• Knowledge of basic chords: C, C7, F, G, G7, Am

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