Music For Everyone
Private Lessons
Individual private lessons are offered for the following instruments:
Voice - (ages 9 - adult) ***NEW***
Piano - Beginning and Intermediate (ages 5-adult)
Guitar (ages 9 - adult)
Ukulele (ages 9 - adult)
Violin (ages 4 - adult) ***NEW***
Viola (ages 9 - adult) ***NEW***
Cello (ages 9 - adult) ***NEW***
Flute (ages 9 - adult)
Clarinet (ages 9 - adult)
Saxophone (ages 9 - adult)
Trumpet (ages 9 - adult)
Trombone (ages 9 - adult)
Euphonium (ages 9 - adult)
Tuba (ages 9 - adult)
Private lessons are 30, 45, or 60 minutes long. If you are unable to meet in person for lessons and have some prior experience, ask about online video lessons. Please see the registration tab to sign up for a free introductory lesson. Please contact us if you need a time slot that is not available, and we will do our best to accommodate.
30 minute lesson: $92 per student/month
45 minute lesson: $138 per student/month
60 minute lesson: $184 per student/month
*Please note: ages listed above are what we typically recommend, however, we evaluate each student based on their needs and abilities in order to place them into the program that is most appropriate for them regardless of age.
Group Classes
Junior Jamboree - Instructor: Rebecca James
For ages 2-5 and their grownup
Join us for Junior Jamboree and experience music through the eyes of your child. You and your child will explore music through song, games, movement, and instrument exploration that are designed to strengthen cognitive development, motor skills, and social skills through play-based curriculum. Students enrolled in Junior Jamboree will read music through song scores and will follow a curriculum that will prepare them for state music education standards upon entering Kindergarten. This program utilizes the SongWorks teaching methodology. Junior Jamboree require a grownup to attend with their child.
Junior Jamboree Details
Classes will not be held March 31st due to Spring Break.
Session Dates: February 3 - May 26
Class Time: Friday @ 9:00 AM
Session Fees: $210
Ukulele Class
Ukulele Class - Instructor Rebecca James/C.J. Roden
For Any Age 6+
Ukulele Class is a great way to start learning how to play Ukulele or to continue honing your skills! This class is designed for beginning to early intermediate students to learn in a small group setting. Students will be given music based on their ability level and will play on their own as well as part of a group. Group Ukulele classes will be scheduled around student and instructor availability. Each class will meet for 50 minutes. Maximum of 4 students per class.
Students will purchase their own method book as requested by the instructor.
Ukuele Class Details:
Session Dates: On-going
Rehearsal Time: TBD based on student and teacher availability
Monthly Class Fees: $65/student
**NEW 2023!**
Guitar Class
Guitar Class - Instructor Kathy Cooney
For Any Age 9+
Guitar Class is a great way to start learning how to play guitar or to continue honing your skills! This class is designed for beginning to early intermediate students to learn in a small group setting. Students will be given music based on their ability level and will play on their own as well as part of a group. Group Ukulele classes will be scheduled around student and instructor availability. Each class will meet for 50 minutes. Maximum of 4 students per class.
Students will purchase their own method book as requested by the instructor.
Guitar Class Details:
Session Dates: On-going
Rehearsal Time: TBD based on student and teacher availability
Monthly Class Fees: $65/student
**NEW 2023!**
Performance Groups
GCMS Junior Singers
GCMS Junior Singers - Director: Kathy Cooney
For Grades 1-6
GCMS Junior Singers is a youth chorus for students who love to sing! Singers will learn to sing in parts as well as learn good vocal habits appropriate for their age, such as breathing and articulation. In addition, singers will develop listening skills for blending voices, learn and/or improve music reading skills, gain confidence, learn new repertoire, and be exposed to a variety of musical genres. During each rehearsal, students will split into age appropriate smaller groups and will end each rehearsal as a whole so that students will be learning at a developmentally appropriate pace, but will also learn what it is like to be in a performing ensemble. The Junior Singers will have a concert at the end of the session. This is a great experience for young singers!
GCMS Junior Singers will meet once a week for 50 minutes.
GCMS Junior Singers Spring Details:
Rehearsals will not be held March 31st due to Spring Break.
Session Dates: February 3 - June 2nd
Rehearsal Time: Fridays @ 5:30 PM
Session Fees: $250
Students will also receive a t-shirt that is included in the session fees and will be used as the performance uniform.
African Drumming
African Drumming - Instructor: Rebecca James
Grades 3-12
Explore how music and rhythm are used as a language in cultures around the globe and discover how world music has influenced today's pop music. In this course you will learn how to read and write music using world notation systems, compose your own music, and perform on world instruments. Students will perform their compositions as an ensemble at the end of the session.
World Drumming is a 45-minute class that is unique to Gem City Music Studio.
Maximum enrollment of 10 students per session time.
African Drumming Details
**PLEASE NOTE**
This group is currently not being offered in Spring 2023.