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Wednesday, 12 February 2025 10:30

Tiger Piano Workshop/Festival

Tigers: fast, loud, colorful, impressive.

Designed for advanced high school and undergraduate students, Tiger Piano is a week of piano master classes, theory and musicianship classes, and one on one private lessons with CMC Atlanta faculty and guest faculty.  Meet and interact with other serious players.  Festival ends with a recital by advanced students.  

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 10:28

Piano Rookie - Inman Park

A week long morning only half day camp for beginner or near beginner piano students.  The camp covers the fundamentals and supports students with tools to start playing music in any style.  With enrollment capped at 8-10 students maximum, students receive individual attention an support in a relaxed and friendly environment.  Students get playing and learn practice strategies and keys to developing piano skills.  Camp includes small group lessons, privates lessons, theory and musicianship training, and an intro to playing piano in duet or mixed small ensemble.        

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 13:14

Summer Performance Workshop

The CMC Atlanta Summer Performance Workshop provides middle and high school students (including recent graduates) the opportunity to play music they love with peers and faculty.  With an emphasis on small ensemble performance (rock band, jazz combo, etc.), students can choose to perform just about any style of music, including jazz, rock, folk, country, American roots, hip hop and more.  

The Summer Performance Workshop is open to both singers and instrumentalists, and individual students can rotate between different roles in the ad hoc and standing ensembles we create in the Performance Workshop.  

Students can attend Full Day (9 to 4 pm) or Half Day morning (9-12:30).

Workshop includes:

  • small ensemble rehearsal and performance
  • group music theory classes to cultivate literacy, understanding of scales, chords, and keys
  • classes on harmony and song design for more advanced students  
  • private coaching on primary instrument or in vocal performance for singers

We design and run our Performance Workshop using the same values, goals, and principles that have made our programs popular with parents and students alike:

  • we group students by age, skill level, and interests CMC Atlanta students perform at the Dogwood Festival
  • we understand discipline as a tool for reaching goals, but emphasize experiential learning and we keep it fun
  • we analyze and respond well to differentiated learning styles and different musical goals,
  • we limit enrollment so the students receive individual attention, and most importantly,
  • we empower students to take control of their own creative output. 

Best of all, our Performance Workshops are staffed by our professional team of expert faculty and camp counselors, and tuition is very reasonably priced. 

Tuesday, 10 December 2024 08:16

Strings Now Weekend Workshop

Sample Schedule

  • 8-9AM Drop Off/Arrival
  • 9-9:45AM - Intro/Performance (Lead Instructor -Jenn Cornell will present a looping performance including an overview of her sound equipment, 6-String Electric Cello and multiple effects pedals and discuss her perspectives on how to find a unique voice of musical freedom within the structure of music and the use of technology.)
  • 10-11- Extended Techniques Workshop (harmonics, color change/distortion, hammer on and pull offs, unconventional plucking, slides, power chords, and percussive techniques)
  • 11:15AM Music Theory Basics/Ear Training (Overview of Scales, Key Signatures, Circle of Fifths, Chords and Intervals. Goal: to bring more awareness to how we listen to and perform music. Class will include listening exercises, descriptive writing exercises and creative drawing.)
  • 12-1PM Lunch
  • 1PM- Improv Basics (Pentatonic scale, 12-Bar Blues/Chord Progressions, Finding your voice)
  • 2PM- Personal practice time of Extended Techniques and Improv with 12 part blues backing track (Student will need their own personal device for playing track from Youtube)
  • 3PM- Pickup

Workshop Performance

  • Sunday, July 28 2:00 pm @ CMC Decatur
Monday, 02 December 2024 11:39

mini Glee Club - CMC Decatur

Monday, 02 December 2024 11:35

Glee Club - CMC Decatur

Wednesday, 27 November 2024 12:59

mini Glee Club - CMC Decatur

Wednesday, 27 November 2024 12:56

Glee Club - CMC Decatur

Friday, 15 November 2024 08:57

Gaming Music Camp - L5P

A Note from the Founders & Directors

Welcome to Community Music Centers of Atlanta

CMC Atlanta is a music education company founded in 2007 as the L5P Music Center. In the 13 years since our founding, we've grown from offering music lessons at a single site to a network of four local community music schools (Decatur, Dunwoody, Little 5 Points and Brookhaven) that offers an array of innovative, but historically-informed music education programs to students of all ages and skill levels. Working in collaboration with Capstone Academy, an accredited private school, we also created a high school conservatory program, Atlanta Music High School, which opened in August 2017.  

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