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The kids in Whatever, all 12 and 13 years old, formed a band in February of 2012 as part of Music & Rock School's All-Access program.  This means they have weekly band rehearsals, instruction on band dynamics and their specific instruments, and perform regularly.  Whatever has about a half-dozen live performances under their belts, a set list of about 15 songs, including 3 originals that the members wrote together, and they even shot a music video for one of them!  The kids in Whatever are learning a l

16-year-old Amber Leigh is the total rock’n’roll package: the look, the attitude and the skills to back it up. She has been a student at MaRS for more than three years, first as a bass student, but eventually switching over to guitar within the last year. Leigh has also not been shy about trying her hand at all of our extracurricular programs; she’s participated in a few Masters Programs, a couple Studio Sessions and nearly all of our concerts.

As an adult student a Music And Rock School, Diana B. is taking full advantage of performance opportunities and special programs we offer here in conjunction with her guitar lessons. She also offers an interesting take on picking up a new hobby later on in life. “I played recreational guitar when I was a teenager, but it wasn’t until I got divorced that I realized something was missing,” Diana (who requested to remain ageless!) said. “I wanted to try something new. And the guitar was portable!”

14-year old Jessie B. is one of MaRS’ first non-veteran performers to be featured as a Student of the Month, which just goes to show how much progress she has made in her short time as a guitar student here. She began taking lessons in May of 2012 and when our Winter Concert rolled around in January, she jumped at the chance to perform in it.

I had a group of 12 and 13 year-olds in the Music & Rock School recording studio this weekend helping them record the latest song they wrote together as a band.  We had just started tracking guitars when the guitar player said something like, “can I just do the verse once then use that for all of the verses?”  These kids are pretty smart, but I was shocked that their impression of recording music seemed like a cut-and-paste project where the engineer/editor, with a toolbox full of plug-ins, plays a larger roll in creating the song than the musicians themselves.

16-year-old Amber M. is the total package when it comes to performing: she can sing, play guitar, and dance. This past December marked her 3-year anniversary as a student at MaRS and in that time she has taken great advantage of our many performance opportunities. Over the past year, Amber has continued to grow and improve as a musician and expand her performance horizons even further.

Guitar student Grayson S. holds the honor of being Music & Rock School’s longest-running student. Grayson, 12, began taking lessons in May of 2009 right after MaRS was first established, so when we say he has participated in all of our concerts and events, we really do mean all of them!

Resolve to rock in the New Year!  We're running a lessons special now through the end of January for 2 months of guitar, drum, bass or keyboard/piano lessons for just $150!  That's a $50 savings off our regular monthly tuition rate.

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We are huge fans of performance-based learning here at Music & Rock School.  That is why, in addition to private lessons on guitar, bass, drums, keyboard/piano and voice, we offer rock band programs, like our All-Access program, and a number of similar band programs.  The objective is applying the knowledge a student gains in lessons into a practical setting.  Programs like All-Access also provide interaction with other musicians, a goal-oriented setting, and live performances.  The result is students tend to learn more, and at a more rapid pace, in these settings co

It goes without saying that one of our favorite things here at MaRS is watching our students learn and grow as musicians. But its another thing completely to watch as what was once a student’s simple passing interest in music grow into what can only be described as a way of life. Meet 15-year-old Ricky Y, a guitar student of nearly two and a half years.