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Explore the vibrant music scene of NYC with a variety of classes available, including vocal training, instrument lessons, and music theory, where participants can learn to hone their musical skills in a diverse and inspiring environment.

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Basic Music Theory 1-Day Intensive

Alphabet City Music Workshops @ 440 Lafayette St, New York, NY

Beginners, songwriters, singers, instrumentalists! Learn basic music theory from scratch in this one-day intensive workshop. Learn to read and write simple music notation including rhythm, understand keys and gain useful skills you can use right away. There are no prerequisites and class size is kept small. No question goes unanswered and the atmosphere is very laid back. You will get a workbook created exclusively for this course at no extra charge....

(2) Beginner 16 and older
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$120
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The Feeling of Jazz

New York Jazz Academy @ 263 W 86th St, New York, NY

Students will be able to learn some of the basic concepts of jazz. Students will also learn how to really hear and feel what they play, how to feel time, phrase and swing in a jazz context. Jazz is an oral (and aural) art form, and in this class, open to all instruments and all levels, we will be using our ears, singing what we play, playing what we sing, and learning to trust and hone our musical instincts. We will be getting deep inside a few...

(2) All levels 13 and older
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$180

8 sessions

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Methodology:Sound Recording & Documentary Sound Writing

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

This series of workshops is intended to people having already a practice of the sound writing and sound recording.  It is conceived to give methodological bases concerning sound recording, sound sampling, editing  and mixing to carry out sound creations documentary or more musical forms, radio drama, hörspiel or electroacoustic pieces. At the end of the session, the participants acquired a work method which they will be then able to use...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Free

3 sessions

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A Practical Approach to Developing Large Audio Projects

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

This workshop is geared towards artists who have already a professional or semi-professional practice in radio drama, sound art or sound installations. After the overwhelming success of our current workshop with French sound documentarian Benoit Bories, we decided to offer a special workshop for artists, to work closely with Benoit on their individual projects in a small group setting.  Full Course Title: A Practical Approach to Developing...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$111

2 sessions

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Melody Writing

Hit Song School @ 146 W 29th St, New York, NY

Students will listen, read text related to, analyze the melodies/melodic structure of, and complete exercises and compose melodies employing melodic techniques found in hit pop songs. Instructor will also provide students with critiques of students’ melodies and melody technique assignments.  Course objective is for student to learn and employ techniques and exercises for generating coherent memorable hit song melodies. 

(5) All levels 18 and older
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Masterclass: Find Your Voice

Irish Arts Center @ 553 W 51st St, New York, NY

Masterclass: Find Your Voice Jazz Vocal Workshopwith Christine Tobin and Phil Robson Irish born and now New York City-based, multi award winning singer/songwriter Christine Tobin and accompanying guitarist Phil Robson will present a jazz vocal workshop which will focus on helping students express their true voices, improve projection, sound and technique, as well as develop interpretation, stylistic understanding, diction and reading of lyrics....

(51) All levels 18 and older
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Slow Air Workshop

Irish Arts Center @ 553 W 51st St, New York, NY

Slow airs are a very popular part of the Irish music repertory, but seldom make it into the classroom. Without the familiar beat of a jig or reel, the slow air takes a lot of listening and interpreting to really get a feel for its lonesome melody. Delve into the art of slow air playing with All-Ireland slow air champion Christina Dolphin. This class will explore the history and context of slow airs, the importance of listening to the singer, and...

(51) All levels 18 and older
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Slow Air Boot Camp 2 for All Instruments w/ Bill Ochs

Irish Arts Center @ 553 W 51st St, New York, NY

Along the way students will acquire all the essential techniques of slow air playing such as slides, scoops, casadhs, vibrato, and more. By popular demand following the success of last year's sold-out Slow Air Boot Camp, Bill Ochs, their residents wind instrument expert, will lead another workshop devoted entirely to the slow airs of Ireland — love songs, laments, songs of remembrance and farewell, and compositions of the harpers.  This...

(51) Intermediate 18 and older
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Summer Jazz Night

The Korea Society @ 950 3rd Ave, New York, NY

Join us for a cool summer night of inventive jazz fusion with the Sangmin Lee Group, led by renowned Korean jazz artist, drummer, and composer Sangmin Lee. Sit back and listen as the group performs Sangmin Lee’s non-traditional and eclectic original compositions. Lee provides introductions to each arrangement, and will explain his inspirations, musical influences, and technique.   After the performance, Lee, one of Korea’s most sought-after...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Masterclass: Irish Fiddle Workshop w/ Athena Tergis

Irish Arts Center @ 553 W 51st St, New York, NY

A workshop on posture, bowing, ornamentation, style, rhythmic flow, and phrasing Accomplished fiddle player and IAC favorite, Athena Tergis, will lead a 90 minute workshop focusing on posture, bowing, ornamentation, style, rhythmic flow, and phrasing. Recommended for intermediate to advanced players, however beginners are also welcome to join for a greater understanding of position, posture, and more. No music reading skills are necessary but...

(51) Intermediate 18 and older
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Music Theory - Harmonic Concepts

Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY

To become familiar with harmonic concepts which will give students more options for color in their compositions. In this course, we will make use of popular video game music to cover modal interchange (day 1) & reharmonization (day 2), two time-honored methods of adding flavor to a composition. Both courses will involve in-class work (students should bring in pencils & manuscript paper), lecture segments, and class exercises. The classes...

(68) All levels 18 and older
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$40

2 sessions

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Mandolin II

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music @ 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY

Mandolin II is for someone with a basic grasp of the instrument but wants to dive deeper. We’ll cover more chord shapes, basic theory and how it applies to mandolin and look deeper into musical styles. Students should expect to be introduced to scales, arpeggios and how they fit into chords. By the end of eight weeks you should be comfortable playing progressions in a variety of keys and have expanded your ear to begin improvising. Notes: ...

(41) Intermediate 15 and older
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$305

8 sessions

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Group Guitar Lessons

New York Jazz Workshop @ 853 7th Ave., New York, NY

The group guitar workshop is perfect for beginner and intermediate players who would like to take their skills to the next level. Always wanted to learn guitar but balked at the cost of a private lessons? Learn how to play popular songs as well as blues and jazz in a group setting. Led by Chris Mariner this class will teach you how to play chords, learn a tune, write a tune, and improvise. Chris can be heard in a wide variety of ensembles ranging...

(18) Beginner 18 and older
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David Blair:The Telepathic Place-The Telepathic Machine

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

Using a variety of screens, speakers, and moving/static objects, the Manchu Edison Film Corporation presents a form of the Telepathic Cinema, as a telepathic film which includes a history of its own invention. This will include the strangely multinational Phenakistoscope of 1832 [literal translation, "deceitful wheel"], and other geometric animation machines designed by the blind color theorist Joseph Plateau. Using a variety of screens, speakers,...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Free

3 sessions

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Meridian7: Intercept Tone/Vacant Level Surround

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

Meridian7 presents Intercept Tone/Vacant Level, a multi-channel audio installation inspired by archival recordings of the electromagnetic terrain that captivated early telephone network explorers. As an AIR at Harvestworks, Meridian7 completed three instruments that bring obsolete telephone equipment back to a life of patching audio signals. The piece explores the sonic terrain of analog switching networks punctuated with rhythmic signal pulses,...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Free

3 sessions

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Spatialization at New Adventures in Sound Art

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

Darren Copeland will present a performance/talk detailing spatialization practices that have been undertaken at New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) in Toronto since 1998. Through performing his own works and works by other Canadian artists, he will demonstrate and discuss two contrasting approaches to performance spatialization used by NAISA. The first method was a fully automated system using the Richmond Sound Design Audiobox and the control...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Natures and Numbers in Music

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

Partnering with Composers Now Festival, Harvestworks presents a “behind the scenes” look at how algorithmic systems and data inspire and shape new music by these contemporary sound art and experimental music composers. It will feature presentations by Liz Phillips with Butoh Dancer Mariko Endo Reynolds, plus Tom Hamilton, followed by a panel discussion. Composer and interactive artist Liz Phillips with Butoh Dancer Mariko Endo Reynolds will...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Sabine Gruffat + Paul Geluso: A Kiss of The Earth

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

Utilizing real-time weather data and text messaging as a driver for the animation, this work reconceives the The Rite of Spring as a commentary on a real contemporary sacrifice: the increased exploitation of our planet and its natural resources in the face of economic and political pressure. A Kiss of the Earth is a responsive three-screen computer-animated video and sound installation inspired by Sergei Diaghilev’s first production of The Rite...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Free

6 sessions

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Jenn Grossman: Quantum Echoes

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

Both “musical” and “non-musical” recordings taken from unrelated times and places will be compiled into a singular, but evolving composition. A variety of processing techniques that “stretch” sound will be applied as to give the illusion of expansion, reflecting the perceptual shift from “focal” to “global” attention. “Quantum Echoes” will explore the notion of the eternal through a multi-channel sound installation. How...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Free

2 sessions

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David Galbraith: Density

Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center @ 596 Broadway, New York, NY

Density is a generative installation of abstract animation with six-channel sound based on a vintage mathematics reference text. Reversing the traditional visual music mapping from musical pitch to color hue, Density structures the sonic realm through constraints derived from the visual domain.  The animation is created with Galbraith’s custom software which simultaneously generates sound via granular synthesis controlled by the image track,...

(3) All levels 18 and older
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Free

3 sessions

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