Classes and Boot Camps Fall 2015 The People's Choir with Cat Guthrie Wednesdays Date: 9/9/2015-12/16/2015 From: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Join the "People's Choir" and sing your heart out! Our dream for the "People's Choir" is to build a beautiful vocal community through the amazing power of communal singing. We will sing songs from different traditions and cultures; uplifting, upbeat, & fun. Learn as you go! You don't need to audition or even read music, we will be learning in the aural tradition. Everyone welcome. Fall 2015 Session 14 weeks*, $160, (Performance TBD, the wkend of Dec 19 or 20) * Does not meet the week Thanksgiving How to Make Music Class with Tina Cody Kids: (Grades 2-5) Mondays Date: 9/14/2015-11/30/2015 From: 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Survey of music class for kids ages ~7-10. Come and get fired up about music. What makes music. How to make music. You'll get an introduction to the piano, plus we'll play recorder, and we'll sing in this fun group music-making class! Our performance will include pieces using all 3! $165 Must be paid in advance to avoid late fees. Young Kids: SHOW US YOUR MOVES with Tina Cody Pre-K Fridays Date: 9/18/2015-12/4/2015 From: 9:30 am - 10:15 am Preschooler Music and Movement This class will get your preschooler using their imaginations, their bodies and their voices as we act out songs, poems and nursery rhymes, groove to the music, do crafts, explore, and have fun! Ages 3-5 $99 Kids Drumming with Mike Rasimas (Grades 3-5) Wednesdays Date: 9/16/2015-12/2/2015 From: 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm Students learn how to hold the drumsticks and learn some real beats, how to lay down a groove. We'll introduce students to a few simple keys that will unlock a world of rhythm where they'll begin to use all four limbs. They'll learn how to keep time, count beats, and understand rhythm, and they'll learned how to play with others in an ensemble. NO Class the night before Thanksgiving. $190 1
Daria's Ukulele Salon - Group Class with Daria Grace (for and older kids) Mondays Date: 9/14/2015-11/30/2015 From: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Geared for soprano uke enthusiasts. Learn new chords and strum patterns while adding a hundred years of songs to your repertoire. Get beyond the one-fingered beginners' chords, learn new voicings of chords you already know, and get your pinkies into shape! We will try to stop looking at our fingers, and you might even start singing along. We know you can do it! $185 Chamber Music Group with Kathleen Patrick Tuesdays Date: 9/15/2015-12/1/2015 From: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm This ensemble is for Adult students comfortable with playing the violin (or viola or cello) and reading music; all levels are absolutely encouraged. Chamber music provides an invaluable learning experience because of the way it challenges each student to produce independent musical lines in harmony with each other, enhancing skills such as phrasing, counting, intonation, tone colors, rhythm, cooperation and responsibility. Repertoire will be from all genres; come and be prepared to make great music together! $385 Drum Lab I with J Why Thursdays Date: 9/17/2015-12/3/2015 From: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm The focus here is the drum set for beginning adults who have perhaps dabbled a bit but are looking to up their game. We'll introduce students to a few simple keys that will unlock a world of rhythm where they'll move beyond using all four limbs. Class covers rudiments, four-limb coordination and a variety of grooves and strong emphasis on fills. There will be multiple drum sets available in the room so students can observe and learn from one another, while also having the opportunity to play together and sync up! $275 Drum Lab II with J Why. Tuesdays Date: 9/22/2015-12/8/2015 From: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm For Returning Adult Drum Lab students. Let's keep going! Class covers rudiments, four-limb coordination and a variety of grooves and strong emphasis on fills. There will be multiple drum sets available in the room so students can observe and learn from one another, while also having the opportunity to play together. $275 2
A Boot Camp for Beginning! Adult Rock Camp 101 with Josh Stark Wednesdays Date: 9/16/2015-12/2/2015 From: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm This 11-week boot camp is for beginners. Who s a beginner? If you have never been in one of our boot camps you are likely a beginner. Unless you have some experience playing in a band, please start here. In Boot Camp 101 the focus is on the elements of music making. Here, we ll go slower. You ll learn how all the pieces fit together. If you play a little guitar, bass, keys... you ll kinda want to know just what notes you re playing. No matter what instrument you re interested in, bass, drums, guitar, keys, voice, beat-boxing, we ll cover the principles of theory and of a band and its working parts. And how those parts go together. There are the instruments and there are the arrangements. How can there be an infinite number of songs that use only same three chords? Here is where you get answers to questions like that. Now it won t all be in the abstract. All of this will be taught in the context of learning to play songs together as a band. A band is a team with a shared goal, and to be successful the members must know how to work together. This means some shared musical aptitude, and it also means honing good communication skills. Eye contact is everything. Boot Camp 101 will give you a supply of musical tools and knowledge and prepare you to immerse yourself in a productive and satisfying future band situation. 11 Weeks (in-house performance on the 11th week). $375 STOOGES Boot Camp with Josh Stark Mondays Date: 9/14/2015-11/30/2015 From: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, are an American protopunk band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003. Although they sold few records in their original incarnation, and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences, the Stooges are widely regarded as instrumental in the rise of punk rock, as well as influential to alternative rock, heavy metal and rock music at large. The Stooges were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them 78th on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. --Wikipedia Performance date: the weekend of Dec 3-5 3
Sheela Na Gig Boot Camp {90's Chick Rock} with Daria Grace Mondays Date: 9/14/2015-11/23/2015 From: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm The likes of pj Harvey the raincoats liz phair elastica the slits hole the breeders who's your favorite? Performance date: the weekend of Dec 3-5 The Raconteurs Boot Camp with Mike Rasimas Wednesdays Date: 9/16/2015-12/2/2015 From: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Delve into the infectiously raucous and rocking music of The Raconteurs. Out of the 90s underground Detroit garage circuit came this supergroup of sorts, producing memorable hooks like the lyric find yourself a girl/and settle down/live a simple live/in a quiet town. This is modern classic rock in the making. Let's have at it. Starts Sept 16. No class Thanksgiving week. The Harder They Come Boot Camp with J Why Thursdays Date: 9/17/2015-12/3/2015 From: 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm The Harder They Come is the soundtrack album to the iconic film of the same name, released in 1972 The heart of the soundtrack comes from performances by the film's star, reggae singer Jimmy Cliff. The remainder of the album is a compilation of singles released in Jamaica from 1967 through 1972, assembled by the The Harder They Come director and co-writer, Perry Henzell, from songs by favored reggae singers. In addition to Cliff, these artists include The Melodians, The Slickers, DJ Scotty, and seminal early reggae stars Desmond Dekker and Toots and the Maytals. No class Thanksgiving week. 4
Blues Brothers Boot Camp with Jeremy Baum Tue Date: 9/22/2015-12/1/2015 From: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Mrs. Tarantino: Are you the police? Elwood: No, ma'am. We're musicians....if you hate Illinois Nazis, are a fan of both kinds of music (country AND western) and like dry white toast, you might be interested in getting the band back together. They re on a mission from God and they are the Blues Brothers! This Fall at the Beacon Music Factory, we are offering the Blues Brothers Boot Camp, hosted by Jeremy Baum (who has been touring with the Original Blues Brothers Revue for the last two years!) Sign up today! We need: Two singers (one who also plays Harmonica) Guitar(s) Keyboards (organ/piano) Electric Bass Drums Sax(s) Trumpet(s) Trombone Starts Sept 22. No class Thanksgiving week. NYC Adult Band Camp: Sticky Fingers\Rolling Stones with Stephen Clair Adult Boot Camp Mondays Date: 9/21/2015-11/30/2015 From: 7:15 pm - 9:45 pm Sticky Fingers marks a pivotal point for The Stones. By this time they had bounded round the globe, and earned the right to pretty much do whatever they like. Come join this band camp where you'll learn every track on the album; and then you and your bandmates will go out and perform the whole set. Track list below* This Adult Album Rock Band Camp takes place on Monday nights in Manhattan. *Track list: Brown Sugar Sway Wild Horses Can't You Hear Me Knocking You Gotta Move Bitch I Got the Blues Sister Morphine Dead Flowers Moonlight Mile $895. Must be paid in advance to avoid late fees. Starts Sept 21. Performance to follow last class in a real venue. 5