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Phil Sims
Gaming Music & Sound Workshop
Gear Heads
Intro to pedals and computer interface
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
Gear Heads
Intro to pedals and computer interface
Old Time/Folk & Songwriting Performance Workshop
ATL Mass Brass
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The ATL Mass Brass Workshops will be held at Atlanta Music High School. We're offering two workshops this summer.
- middle school students are invited to attend workshop the week of June 3-8, 2019
- High school students and college undergraduates are invited to attend workshop the week of June 24-29, 2019.
Trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, and tuba players are welcome.
The ATL Mass Brass Workshop is a locally unique camp that immerses brass players in both solo and ensemble music making with peers and a faculty comprised of professional performers and educators. Students will spend the week rehearsing as participants in several different brass ensembles, including daily rehearsals and coaching in brass quintet, like-instrument ensembles (such as trombone or trumpet choir) and a large, mass brass ensemble. Students will also have the opportunity to work on solo repertoire with accompanists. The ATL Mass Brass Workshop also includes private lessons with faculty specialists. The week culminates in a Saturday morning concert by students.
Gaming Music & Sound Workshop
Summer Performance Workshop - Decatur Camp
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