Music Lessons, Group Classes, Special Programs, Presentations and Seminars

Music IS Life, and it is proven that all forms of arts programs increase left brain activity
by stimulating the right part of your brain. Music is a great way to "wake up" your brain,
while having fun learning an instrument or taking singing and performance lessons.
Students just starting out on the journey of music and song, discover just what
Music Lessons can do for them and what they are capable of achieving by playing
an instrument or taking singing lessons, opening endless roads of possibilities.
Students continuing on this journey find that they can overcome musical stumbling
blocks and enhance and advance their musical endeavors, developing a fresh approach.
GUITAR & BASS GUITAR LESSONS
Individual lesson plans to help you create your own personalized playing style. Get the most out of your guitar and/or bass guitar, based on your level of experience. Learn about tuning, strings, notes, chords, theory and finding your way around the neck. Start out as a beginner, and/or continue to learn as your playing and musical skills accelerate. (Group classes are also available) VOCAL COACHING Beginner, to advanced instruction, on developing a style that compliments your voice. Learn theories and harmonies, gaining confidence and presence. Increase your vocal range and find YOUR voice, enhancing your performance. Harmonica Lessons also available!
SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES "NO DRUMS ALLOWED" (Percussion Clinic) A fun, exciting and energetic way to liven up your day with trash cans, pots and pans, plastic buckets, coffee cans, wooden spoons, kitchen utensils, and an assortment of household items to bang on, finding a percussive grove. Interactive and Inspirational for school kids of ALL ages. "EVERYBODY IS DIFFERENT" (A Children's Musical Interaction) "This is a guitar, these are strings, your fingers push down and it makes music. Original children's songs on positive thinking and how we all connect with music and each other. While having fun, kids learn why, "Everybody is Different", singing along, banging on their desks, stomping their feet, clapping to the beat. |

MUSIC EDUCATION, CLASSES, AND COACHING
This Business of Music
Interactive Seminars and classes on the music business, adapted
from DJ's studies at UCLA. How to promote yourself and find gigs. Merchandising, Public Relations and Press Agents, Cultivating Leads.
Learn about Riders and what to look for in a contract. Expenses and
tax advantages. Negotiating deals. Setting up one off gigs and developing routings to play your way through, rather than pay your way through those musical roads. Negotiating deals. How the Booking Agent, Road Manager, Personal Manager and Press Agent's roles play a part in your music career. Advancing your career goals.
This Business of Music
Interactive Seminars and classes on the music business, adapted
from DJ's studies at UCLA. How to promote yourself and find gigs. Merchandising, Public Relations and Press Agents, Cultivating Leads.
Learn about Riders and what to look for in a contract. Expenses and
tax advantages. Negotiating deals. Setting up one off gigs and developing routings to play your way through, rather than pay your way through those musical roads. Negotiating deals. How the Booking Agent, Road Manager, Personal Manager and Press Agent's roles play a part in your music career. Advancing your career goals.

The Dynamics of Music
Coaching for the performer on a one on one or group basis. Positivity, Assertiveness,
Stage Performance, kicking stage fright, looking and feeling your best, on stage and off.
Setting Goals, Getting started, following through and developing a Game Plan to start. Continue and advance your career as an entertainer on a daily basis and through your life.

Lyric & Songwriting
Get those creative juices flowing, break writer's block or start out as a novice, learning how to
weave a story into a hit song. (Or at least a good tune!) Continuing fresh ideas and connecting
with what to write about. Creating melody lines and hooks. Discover options for using various
genres to find your song's heartbeat. What to do and how to proceed with your finished song.
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Songwriter's in the Round (Workshop)
Get together with other songwriters and hear each others music. Work together on each others tunes, and create new ideas as a group, developing musical hooks and lyrics. network with your fellow songsters and learn the process of how different writers go about creating their songs.
How we find those ideas, taking what's inside our heads and putting them down on paper.