Music Classes
This course is for students with no or minimal piano background. Students will learn basic note reading, technique, rhythm, and music theory. Pieces will include familiar melodies of classical, folk and pop songs.
#10034, Truax-Main Building, 5/28-8/6, Tuesday, 8:30-10:30 AM Instructor: Lisa DeBaker
Continuation of Piano 1. Students will continue studies of note reading, technique, rhythm, and music theory.
#10036, Truax-Main Building, 5/28-8/6, Tuesday, 10-11:30 AM Instructor: Lisa DeBaker
Students who have just finished Piano Semester 2 will continue with a second adult piano book.
#10038, Truax-Main Building, 5/28-8/6, Tuesday, 11:30 AM-1 PM Instructor: Lisa DeBaker
Intermediate Continuing Piano is a group piano course for students progressing above the elementary level. The study of early intermediate level piano solos from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods as well as course work with technical exercises and piano pieces utilizing different rhythmic variations and theoretical ideas will be included.
#10090, Truax-Main Building, 5/28-8/6, Tuesday, 1-2:30 PM Instructor: Lisa DeBaker
Rumba is a rhythm unique to Cuba, it also is a dance, but it really means community. This course starts with the basics of percussion instruments: Conga drums, bongo, campana, shekere, clave, guiro. Learning to feel the rhythm in daily life. The traditions are old and formal, but easy to learn as a group, locking the rhythms together is amazing group experience. The basics of clave, the underlying pulse of AfroLatin music. Then there is the dance. We explore the dance traditions of Cuba and its African roots and impact on American music and current trends in hip hop. This is about building synergy of a group for enjoyment, public performance, education for kids. strumming, and learn how to invent your own chords.
#11988, Truax-Main Building, 6/1-8/3, Saturday, 11:30 AM-1:30 PM Instructor: Bevan Suits
Learn how to read music and interpret chord diagrams for the guitar as well as basic strumming rhythms/patterns. We will play basic tunes together as a class. Bring your own guitar (preferably acoustic) to each class.
#10006, Truax-Protective Services, 6/10-6/26, Monday and Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 PM Instructor: Chris Allen
For this class, you should be comfortable with basic music reading and chord knowledge. The class will review material as needed from Applied Guitar 1 and you will continue to learn to read music as well as tablature. More advanced strumming patterns will be introduced, and beginning blues/rock examples will be explored.
#10054, Truax-Protective Services, 7/15-7/31, Monday and Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 PM Instructor: Chris Allen
Strum a song using easy chords during the first class! The ukulele has always been a delightful go-to for folks who want to get started playing music now. Learn various strumming patterns and how to pluck melodies on an instrument you can carry with you virtually anywhere. Students are required to provide their own ukuleles.
#10016, Truax-Protective Services, 6/4-7/2, Tuesday, 6:00-8:00 PM Instructor: Scott Mullarky
#35158, Truax-Protective Services Building, 9/17-10/22, Tuesday, 6-8 PM Instructor: Scott Mullarky
More chords, more songs, more strumming patterns, more ukulele fun! If you would like to continue on from Ukulele 1 or have some working knowledge of the ukulele and would like to learn more, then this is your class. In addition, learn the rhythmic finger roll, add tremolo to your strumming, and learn how to invent your own chords. Students are required to provide their own ukuleles.
#10056, Truax-Protective Services, 7/9-8/13, Tuesday, 6:00-8:00 PM Instructor: Scott Mullarky
#35160, Truax-Protective Services, 11/5-12/10, Tuesday, 6:00-8:00 PM Instructor: Scott Mullarky
Want to get going on mandolin? This basic course will teach tuning the instrument, basic picking techniques, essential scales and chords. Along the way, we’ll learn to play a few classic bluegrass and old time tunes. No need to be able to read music or have any musical ability at all. But you will walk away from this course with plenty of both to carry you onward. Come kickstart your skills on mandolinu today! Students need to bring their own mandolin.
#36783, Truax-Protective Services, 9/9-10/14, Monday, 6-8 PM Instructor: Scott Mullarky
Students will learn beginning harmonica techniques such as getting single notes, popular melodies, blues, bent notes, and improvising; ability to read music is unnecessary, but please bring a basic 10 hole, diatonic harmonica in the key of C
#35200, Truax-Health, 10/1-11/19, Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 PM Instructor: DeWayne Keyes
This course will cover general banjo basics, chords and strumming, and the basics of the Bluegrass three-finger picking style. Upon finishing the course, the student will be able to play basic accompaniment for songs and be able to choose a direction for further study.
#36799, Truax-Protective Services, 10/28-12/2, Monday, 6-8 PM Instructor: Scott Mullarky