Grab your axe or borrow one of ours and come jam with us. Since we group students by both age and skill level, the CMC Atlanta Guitar Camp is open to beginners and more advanced players.

CMC Atlanta Guitar provides beginners and more experienced players alike the opportunity to develop both playing skills and their understanding of musical concepts. Through a mix of private lessons and group activities, students will learn good technique, build their knowledge of the fundamentals of music, earn about amps, pedals, and effects, and tackle a couple of age and skill appropriate songs. Camp includes a variety of group activities like singing, drumming, theory drills and projects, and indoor and outdoor games. The curriculum incorporates a survey of historical repertoire (from simple compositions most children learn to virtuosic masterpieces), projects that introduce important composers and famous performers, and live performances by CMC Atlanta Artist Resident Teachers.  Our young musicians are also engaged by both traditional and more contemporary uses of the guitar in classical, jazz, rock, and folk music.

All things piano. Classical, jazz, pop, rock, blues, the piano has occupied a central role in many styles of music since its invention by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Italy around the year 1700. It’s also been a focal point of musical education for American children since the mid 1800s.

CMC Atlanta Piano Camp provides beginners and more experienced players alike the opportunity to develop both playing skills and musical understanding and awareness. Through a mix of private lessons and group activities (singing, drumming, arts and crafts, theory games and projects), students will learn good technique, build their knowledge of the fundamentals of music, and tackle a couple of age and skill appropriate compositions. Piano Camp also includes introduction of historical repertoire (from virtuosic to famous pieces, like Fur Elise, that most piano students learn along the way), lessons in how the piano works, projects that introduce important composers for the instrument (from Muzio Clementi to Mozart, Chopin, to Thelonious Monk and Elton John), and live performances by CMC Atlanta Artist Resident Teachers.

For beginners, we gear the curriculum to laying a firm foundation to support playing and continued study after camp. For more experienced players, we introduce new solo and collaborative pieces, more advanced concepts, and teach improvisation, a skill overlooked in many piano studios. When it comes to improvisation, even experienced students mostly start from scratch when they come to our camp, and most students enjoy having this world of artistic expression opened for them in an encouraging setting. 

Students divided by age and skill level. Beginners and more experienced students welcome.

Our Day Camps for kids begin in Little 5 Points, Dunwoody and Brookhaven.  CMS Decatur Camps begin Monday, June 3.

For more info, details, and schedule by location, visit the Day Camp Info Page. 

8:00 Check in: students sign in, put their things away and then have quiet choices until 9:00am.

9:00 - 9:15: Circle time, gather students, learn names.  Go over music center inside boundaries and expectations. Video; Meet the Orchestra.  

9:15-10:15: EveryDay Sing: Viva la Vida, Waving Flag, Cripple Creek, and Country Roads.  Please add in other songs as you want/need.  The four songs listed here can be played on open strings and/or first position.  

10:15-10:45: Morning fruit break.  Go over outside expectations, and boundaries.

10:45-12:00: Review solfege, note names, treble, bass, and alto clef, staff, lines and spaces, etc.  Queen Treble/King Bass song.  Worksheets for treble, bass, and alto clef.  Fingerboard for all stringed instruments.

12:00-1:00:  Lunch and outside/free choice time.

1:00-2:00: Go over the parts of the violin.  Viola will be the same.  Cello and bass add in the end pin.  Make Puff Ball Monsters.  

2:00-2:30: Afternoon fruit break. 

2:30-4:00: Learn bow holds;  for violin and viola, and cello.  Play four corners with violin music, pointing bows instead of moving bodies.  Pass toilet paper tubes back and forth  (using tip of the bow).  

4:00-6:00: Free choices and practicing