Guitar Studies
12-Week Guitar Course Highlight
Weekly private lessons based on a system of one-on-one mentorship with skilled and experienced teachers.
A range of styles covered: Blues, Rock, Pop, Funk, Jazz, R&B, Classical Guitar and more.
Learn from the greats: work on guitar solos, songs and tunes by players that defined certain styles of music.
Music theory applied to the fretboard:
- Understanding the notes on the fretboard
- Relevant scales positions, pentatonic scales, modes in different parts of the fretboard
- Triad chords and their inversions
- Seventh Chords and their inversions
- Arpeggios
- Plectrum-based techniques
- Fingerstyle Guitar
- Left and Right-hand coordination
- Practicing with a metronome and developing a voice on the instrument
- Technique Etudes for all levels
Reading Music notation on the Guitar
Reading Chord Charts and Lead Sheets
Improvisation: using the theory and techniques you’ve learned to be able to compose and improvise your own style-specific melodies and solos
Developing your own SOUND on the instrument
Drum Studies
12-Week Drums Course Highlight
Weekly private lessons based on a system of one-on-one mentorship with skilled and experienced teachers.
A range of styles covered: Samba, Blues, Rock, Pop, Funk, Jazz, R&B, Afro-cuban and more.
Work on groove, independence, syncopation, orchestration, odd-times, cross-rhythms, Polyrhythms and much more. Also dive into your favourite music and learn to play your favourite songs by your favourite drummers.
Developing technique:
- Understanding rhythmic structures and measures
- Styles, dynamics and limb independence
- Counting and Keeping time
- Stick control
- Efficient body control
- Effective hand and foot coordination
- Reading Music notation for drums and percussion.
- Reading Charts and melody
Improvisation: using the theory and techniques you’ve learned to be able to compose and improvise your own style-specific and contextual parts.
Practical playing experience. Ensemble sessions once a week provide the necessary practical training in playing your instrument.
Graded Music Exams AFQL approved, grade exams are facilitated from all distinguished boards.
Learn how to develop your MUSICALITY and your overall approach to music in general, in a carefully structured and wholistic manner.
Cuban Rhythm & Song
OKAN - www.okanmusica.com – is a women-led contemporary Afro-Cuban Jazz quartet. Taking its name from the word for heart or soul in the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria, OKAN fuses Afro-Cuban and other global rhythms with jazz, folk and classical forms. Embracing genres and roles that have historically been dominated by men, co-leaders, composers and multi-instrumentalists Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne bring a fresh perspective to Latin and world jazz fusion through their powerful vocals, incredible musicianship and potent lyrical content. Both are JUNO-nominees for their work with Battle of Santiago and Grammy-nominees and JUNO winners for their contributions to Jane Bunnett and Maqueque of which they are former members. The band won the Independent Music Award in Jazz & World Music Categories as well as the Rising Star Stingray Award.
Living and collaborating in the intensely multicultural city of Toronto has enriched OKAN’s compositions with influences from Brazil, Spain and New Orleans. Having performed at the Beaches, Toronto and Markham Jazz Festivals as well as Harbourfront, Lulaworld Kultrun and the National Arts Centre, OKAN is all set to create waves in India at the Jaipur Jazz and Blues Festival in Feb 2020.
The Masterclass will have Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne of OKAN take you to an imaginary trip to Cuba through rhythms and some old popular Cuban songs in Spanish.
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