Category Archives: for Teens

Classes, Flute, for Adults, for Teens

Flute Workshop

Join a Sunday afternoon flute workshop designed and led by flutist Carol Adee. The emphasis of this workshop will be on honoring the musicality of each person and enlivening our enjoyment of “flutistry” whether alone or with others. All levels are encouraged.

The format will include the following:

Ensemble workshop

Flying Fingers

Floga

Story Telling

Playing for a positive audience

Show and Tell

Ensemble Fun

Carol Adee holds a M.M. degree from Yale School of Music and a Waldorf Teaching Certificate. She has taught flute and chamber music at Stanford and Dominican Universities as well as Music and Musical Pedagogy for the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training. As a performing musician Carol has worked in a wide variety of new music, chamber, and orchestral environments. She is a founding member of ECHO Camber Orchestra.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1-5 PM.

$140 tuition payable at the workshop.

Applications are due by Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Apply now.

Chamber Music, Classes, for Teens

SUMMER STRING QUARTET WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG STRING PLAYERS

If you are between the ages of 12 and 18 and play violin, viola, or cello, you are invited to join a workshop coached by Marin Symphony violist Meg Eldridge where you’ll hone your ensemble skills and play pieces by Mozart, Britten, Holst, and other great composers.

Chamber music is the classical music equivalent of a rock band (but without the singing): There’s no conductor and each member of the group is responsible for their own part.  

If you’re used to playing in an orchestra – or if you’re new to playing with people other than your teacher – get ready for a great new experience.

The workshop meets at Marin Community Music School in San Anselmo from 3:00 to 4:30 pm on four consecutive Sundays starting August 4 and concludes with a brief informal performance on Sunday, August 25 at 5:30.

The participation fee is $200. Financial assistance is available to qualified applicants. You do not need to be currently enrolled at Marin Community Music School to participate.

Apply using this online form on or before the July 21 registration deadline.

Chamber Music, Classes, for Adults, for Teens

Chamber Music Class Starts July 21st

Classical string, wind, and keyboard players of all skill levels and musical interests are invited to join the coached Chamber Music Workshop for five weekly meetings, plus an informal recital for members of the workshop and their invited guests.

The workshop meets Sunday mornings from 10:00 am to noon, starting  April 7, under the guidance of flautist Carol Adee. 

Participants play music from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary chamber literature.  Good music-reading skills are essential; experience playing with others is a definite plus but not essential.  Our goals are to help you enlarge your familiarity with chamber music literature; become a more confident and proficient ensemble player; and meet others who share your interest in chamber music.

If you would like to enroll, please fill out the following short form here.

SUMMER 2024  Chamber Music  Class 

coach:  Carol Adee

dates:   July 21 – August 18, 2024

hours:  five Sundays, 10 am – noon,  plus recital Fri, August 18, time TBA

$180  for the  class

Students will be formed into groups and coached on specific pieces of music during the  course.  At the end of the five-week session, groups will perform their pieces at an informal concert.

Classes, for Adults, for Teens, Theory and Composition

Music Fundamentals for Guitarists

Taught by David Lusterman

Wednesdays, 7:00 to 8:00 pm

Do you already know some chords and songs on the guitar, but feel like you’re speaking bits and pieces of a foreign language?

Do you marvel at guitarists who can easily change the key of a song to fit their vocal range or improvise a solo on the spot?

They’re not doing magic tricks. They’re just speaking a musical language they’ve taken time to learn from the ground up.

In this series of hour-long weekly classes, I’ll teach you the basics of that language — notes, intervals, scales, chords, and keys — as they apply to the guitar.

With our instruments in hand, we’ll use fretboard diagrams and simple exercises to learn the fundamentals of music. We won’t be reading music notation or tab. Instead, we’ll train our ears to show our hands what to do.

No matter how long you’ve been playing the guitar or how old you are, I can help you understand the vocabulary and grammar of music-making and hear the patterns common to pop, rock, folk, and classical music.

I can’t work wonders, so you’ll need to pay attention and apply what I show you to your guitar playing. But don’t worry, I’ll give you the tools you need with simple exercises and drills you can do at home.

You’ll start to understand how music actually works — the alphabet, the vocabulary, the phrases, sentences, and paragraphs — so you can play more confidently and tell your own musical stories.

Topics
The Major Scale and Two-Note Chords
Notes and Intervals
Scales and Modes
Three-Note Chords
Keys and Four-Note Chords
Key Changes and Improvisation

Logistics
Wednesdays, 7:00 to 8:00 pm

Location: Marin Community Music School, 55 San Anselmo Avenue, San Anselmo, CA 94960

Fee: $25 per class for new students, $15 for students already enrolled in lessons.

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