Summer Camps for students ages 9-17 at Grosse Pointe Music Academy |
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Summer Camp and Private Lessons
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MAY NEWSLETTER
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Greetings!
Musical abilities are gained through practice and repetition. Grosse Pointe Music Academy offers all private lessons year-round in our air conditioned facilities. Keeping up with your private lessons and/or participating in music camps during the summer naturally leads to more proficiency.
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 Summer Camps
Camps help to intensify musical learning and experience. It also intensifies the fun! This year we have 4 weeks of camp to choose from.
Rates for 2013 summer music camps at Grosse Pointe Music Academy:
$295 for one week, 10am-3pm Monday-Friday.
Discounts are available for multiple week enrollment and sibling enrollments. Registration is now open. Ages 9-17.
See our website page on summer camps for more info
Call us to sign up:
313-458-7723
50 dollars off each additional week
25 dollars off for sibling enrollments
(offers cannot be combined)
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EVERY STUDENT GETS A
FREE CAMP T-SHIRT
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4 weeks to choose from:
July 15th-July 19th
July 22nd-July 26th
July 29th-July August 2nd
August 5th-July 9th
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PRIVATE LESSONS
Many teachers have sold out. If you need a schedule change or would like to be added to a waiting listfor a particular teacher, day or time, please contact any of our office staff team and they can add you to the waiting list.
There are still limited lessons spots available.
To inquire about openings for May or June, e-mail info@grossepointemusicacademy.com or
call the office 313-458-7723
June, July and August are a great time to continue with private lessons. It's easy to forget most of what you learned throughout the year if you take too much time off. Music is a year round study for serious students. Many students will increase lesson time or schedule twice weekly while they are out of school. Private or group make-up lessons will be available to help you work around your busy schedule.
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STUDENT OF THE MONTH:
GIOVANNA GIGANTE
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1. What Instruments do you play?
Guitar
2. How long have you taken lessons?
3 months
3. Who are your favorite musical artists?
Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber,
4. What are your other hobbies, besides music?
Riding Bike, listening to music
5. Favorite Food?
Sushi and Pizza
6. What is the coolest thing you've learned in your lessons in the past three months?
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TEACHER OF THE MONTH:
MATTHEW CALLAWAY
1. What is the thing you like most about teaching?
The thing I like the most about teaching is positively affecting the minds of others. Seeing growth in students is very fulfilling. Sometimes the growth affects other aspects of their lives like confidence, grades, or providing a concise method of accomplishing something.
2. How do you inspire students to practice more?
Passion, If you don't believe in what you do no one else will either. My second year of music school I took a job moving furniture over the summer. Sometimes we worked 18 hours a day but I always practiced 2 hours a day minimum. If I didn't love it I never would have been able to work that hard. I always teach my students to love what they do.
3. Where did you get your degree/certificate from?
I started at a community college which was where I realized I wanted to do music. I took all the music classes they offered including theory, jazz, and classical guitar. A teacher approached me and told me I should study at wayne state so I enrolled the next fall to major in jazz guitar. I also studied composition for several semesters which was really fun.
4. What is your favorite type of music?
I really love all types of music. I have been lucky enough to learn old-time, cajun/zydeco and all sorts of American roots music from one of my mentors Mr. mark palms and his wife Carol. I love jazz, classical, blues, and everything in-between. I have a soft spot for old country though. I really enjoy hearing the influence of other styles of music. Sometimes you can hear jazz or soul influence on a Paul Simon record. Or the way that mo-town records feel because all those cats were originally from the south. Thats what I love most about music.
5. Tell us about any music musical projects you may be working on?
I had a project called House Phone that I was proud of. It was a rock band that took off pretty quick. we worked hard, opened for a few national acts then things fell apart. I currently play for a top 40 group called The Dan Rafferty Band. That group keeps me really busy, lots of fun. I also play in a group called The Sugar Snaps. I accompany a vocalist in the style of 1940's jazz. I love that group because all the weight falls on me. I play bass lines, solos, chord melodies, and anything else I can to fill the sound and push my playing further.
6. If you could give a quick tip for guitarists, what would it be?
Be a jack of all trades and a master of one. Mastering something will give you insight and value, but learning a little of everything will make you versatile and it will never get old.
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19443 Mack Ave.
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236
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Refer a Friend & get a FREE lesson!
If you have a friend who might like to take lessons, if you refer them to the Academy and they take 1 month of lessons, we'll give you a lesson for free!
It's very easy to refer someone.
Type in your name, their name and their e-mail address and we'll take care of the rest! There's no maximum to the amount of free lessons that you can receive!
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Free Lesson Gift Certificate
Thank you__________________________
for referring_________________________
to the Academy!
1. To redeem your free lesson, call 313.458.7723 and sign up for an additional lesson, any day of the week, with your teacher or any of our other teachers. you are welcome to try another instrument if you like or give this to a friend. Lessons cannot be rescheduled once they are on the Academy calendar.
2. Certificates cannot be used for refunds to your account or cash.
Given by:____________________________________________________ Date:________________________
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