We are dedicated to helping students develop total musicianship,
with the help of state of the art technology which will provide an understanding
and love of music that will last for a lifetime!
We teach total musicianship through singing, rhythmic activities,
keyboard playing, ear training, theory, note reading and composing, and
all the while, utilizing our awesome studio
technology to assist in this endeavor.
In
addition to private lessons, our contemporary comprehensive music education programs
include:
Harmony
Road: A
2 year program, 50 minutes once weekly ($68 /month)
The
Harmony Road course is carefully constructed for children aged 4 to 6 to learn
the basic building blocks of music. The emphasis is on ear training, solfege
(DO, RE, MI) singing, keyboard playing, ensemble rhythm activities, movement and
music creativity. This exceptional course gives the student “inner hearing”,
which makes transposing, improvisation and composing easily accessible in their
musical studies. The program makes the best use of the many orchestral and
contemporary sounds possible on a digital keyboard. Parents and caregivers are
fully involved in class and at home.
The
Young Musician: A
2 year program, 50 minutes once weekly ($68 /month)
The
Young Musician course introduces beginning students aged 6 to 7 to keyboard
performance and note reading in a holistic program, including the organized
development of pitch, rhythm, solfege singing, keyboard and movement activities.
Parent involvement in class strongly recommended.
Listen
to a song we will Learn: Duck
Crossing 
Keyboard
Prep: A
11/2 year program, 55 minutes once weekly ($72 /month)
The
Keyboard Prep course is designed for children ages 7 through 11 who are studying
music for the first time. This motivating program develops the student's basic
musicianship skills through ear training, solfege singing, keyboard performance
and writing music. Parent involvement in class encouraged.
Listen
to another song: Concert
For Kids
Keyboard
Musician: A
2-year program, 55 minutes once weekly ($75 /month)
The
Keyboard Musician course is for students who have completed Young
Musician or Keyboard Prep programs. Students continue to develop performance
skills through the study of varied repertoire styles, technical studies,
sight-reading songs and three and four part ensembles. Ear trainings expanded to
include dictation, recognition of tonal centers and chord progressions.
Transposing becomes an easily accessible activity. Students learn to accompany
themselves while singing solfege. Two-part singing and artistic repertoire
encourage expressive musicianship. Harmonic training develops an understanding
of accompaniment styles. Students are given step by step techniques to develop
their own creativity through music composition. In this program students become
acquainted with major composers and their place in music history. Parent
involvement in class encouraged.
Listen
to what we'll play!!!:
Ensemble
performance: Puppet
Parade
How
about some ensemble ragtime: Show
Time Rag
More
classical: The Trout
Some
boogey woogey of course: Big
Train Blues
And
at the end of 2 years, A symphony?: Seventh
Symphony
Download
our printable brochure on these programs
Future
classes:
Check
back soon! We are currently developing a curriculum for the following:
Music
Technology I:
Tech I will be an introductory course that starts students with
basic principles of a sound system including microphones, cords, cables,
speakers, signal processing, and basic applications. Student will then learn
about Musical Instrument Digital Interface of MIDI. This includes the history of
MIDI, General MIDI, what to look for when purchasing a MIDI equipped keyboard,
how it enhanced early web pages and its present applications.
Next students will start exploring some of the more popular software
applications such as: Band In A Box. With Band In A Box, students learn chord
symbols, basic song construction, how to create Standard MIDI Files and lead
sheets. After Band In A Box students will study basic sequencing techniques
using Cakewalk's Home Studio MIDI/Audio Sequencing Software.
Students will explore basic recording principles such as looping and
overdubbing while creating original compositions. The final portion of the class
is a study of audio editing and looped based music creation. Using Sonic
Foundry's Sound Forge 5.0 students will learn the basic operation of editing MP3
and wav files. Students will also create original .MP3 and wav files using
different audio sources. Looped
Based Music creation is a fast growing application of music technology and using
Sonic Foundry's ACID Pro students will create compositions using loops that they
create as well as commercially available loops.
Every student will leave Music technology I with a CD of all their work
as well as a "Greatest Hits" CD of the class.
Music
Technology II:
Tech II will be an advanced course that will focus on Real World
applications of music technology. The class will start with the study of
creating sound effects. Armed with
a microphone and a computer, students will create everything from footsteps to
sounds from outer space using everyday items. Next, students will create radio
jingles/commercials - 15, 30 & 40 second commercials on everything from
Music Technology Class to maybe even going out into the community to create a
commercial for an area business. Students will be the artist, composer,
producer, and recording engineer with the final product recorded onto CD for the
customer. Students will then study
film scoring by analyzing the different aspects of film music and how it
enhances what you see on the screen. After
analyzing numerous movies student will take small clips from movies or TV shows
and create original scores. The last portion of the class will be spent on
multi-media and web design. The final assignment of the class will be to create
an electronic portfolio that shows the students work over the course of their
involvement in Tech II.
