RockON 2012 ~ July 16-27

2012 Student Registration is now open.

The annual Rock On young musicians workshop will be held July 16th -27th at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA. Guest artists include Pat Pattison, an internationally renowned professor of songwriting  whose former students at Berklee College of Music include John Mayer and Gillian Welch; Steve Adelson, one of jazz  music’s finest Chapman stick players;  Frank Bellucci, an outstanding performer, educator, and clinician endorsed by Sabian Cymbals, DW Drums, Vic Firth Drumsticks, and Evans Drum Heads, and Barry Goudreau, former guitarist with the band Boston. All guest artists will teach master classes, coach bands, and participate in Rock On’s ‘Concert at Noon’ series which is free and open to the public.

Rock On! is an intensive  two week program  that focuses on instrument training and ensemble playing.  Program activities are designed for beginners with one year of training to advanced players with band experience. All students attending Rock On participate in technique classes, band rehearsals, and  workshops.  Workshops include : Basic Keyboard (simple keyboard concepts, notes, simple scales, chords); Sight Reading (basics of reading music, rhythmic concepts, basic melodic ideas); Stage Performance and Audition Techniques (performing for a live audience, auditioning, and use of video and stage props); and Songwriting.

NEW SUMMER WORKSHOPS for Advanced Students

Rock On is expanding its advanced program to include the following new workshops for young composers and musicians. These workshops, taught by BCC and Rock On instructor, Jeff Link,  will be held mornings before the regular the Rock On sessions.

Contemporary Harmonic Concepts

This workshop will focus on harmonic concepts used in popular music including Rock, Fusion and Jazz. The use of modal harmony and melodic writing. Song analysis and student writing projects which will be realized in the Recording Technology workshop.

Introduction to MIDI Recording Technology

We will be using Cake Walk’s Producer Version of Sonar.  Sonar is used by Professional Composers worldwide to create music for gaming, video, films and Apps using both MIDI and Waveforms, Jeff will teach the basics of the program and focus on creating original projects. Each student will have their own complete Midi station.

Dates: July 16^th-20^th  and July 23^rd-27^th  Time: 10:am to 11:45am

The Contemporary Harmonic Concepts will run from 10am to 10:45am. Then followed by the Intro To Recording Techniques from 11:00am to 11:45am. These workshops will support each other in helping to create fresh new music composed by the students with their final compositions recorded to CD. Berkshire Community College

Cost- $65 for both workshops per week. Students attending the full Rock On program can attend the Advanced Workshops for a reduced fee of $50.

*Space is limited to 12, so don’t wait.

Music Video and Photography Workshop for 2012

A separate program for teens and young adults, Music Video Production and Photography is being offered as a general course outside the Rock-On Workshop. While Rock-On  focuses on developing young musicians, this program hones in on other related disciplines in the arts and does not require the students to be musicians.

Music Video Production and Photography will be offered July 16-27, the same dates and time as Rock-On Workshop, so that the RO bands can be the subjects of the videos. For this reason, the video students and camera crews cannot be current RockOn students.

The video workshop runs from 12-5pm, with instructor Lee Everett of Fine Line Multimedia, and will cover the use of three different types of video capture devices, including smart phones, digital still cameras and professional three chip video cameras.

Cost for this workshop is $250 per week.

For more information and to register.  RockonWorkshop