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BackBeat Music Instruction
BackBeat Music Instruction is a new music studio located in the heart of Lakeview. It offers quality music lessons in violin, piano, guitar, and bass guitar from experience, music degree holding teachers and educators. Free consultations are available!
Convenient meter parking is located right outside the door, and the area is safe and secure. The CTA Irving Park stop is just 2 blocks away.
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Larry Evans Piano Lessons
Piano, keyboard, and organ included. Larry received his BA in Music Education in 1987 from Michigan State University. Since then he has played on cruise ships, as accompanist for many musicals, hotels, parties, as well as his own show which he performs at senior recreation centers. In 1999 he had his own piano CD “Magnificent Movie Love Themes” released nationwide. It is still available on amazon.com and cdbaby.com. It has sold 4000 copies and is a popular [more]
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Vocal Arts Studio
• Technique & Coaching
• Individual & Group Lessons
• Free Introductory Consultation
• Beginners through Professionals
• Vocal Problems Quickly Eliminated
• Highly Trained & Experienced Teacher
• Styles: Classical, Broadway, Pop, Rock, etc.
• Accompanist Available at No Additional Charge
• No Breaks: One Voice throughout Singing Range
• Proper Posture & Breathing Produce Superior Results
• Former University Professor with 25+ Years Experience
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Wee Play / Kids Play
Wee Play for ages 4-6, and Kids Play for ages 6-8 are comprehensive theater arts classes. Classes are limited to 12 children who are accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. Each class is 90 minutes and is divided into one section each of dance, drama, and singing. There are three sessions during the academic year, and summer camps are available. Classes are at various times and locations in the north and northwest suburbs. Please see our website for detailed program descriptions. [more]
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Ralph Schuckett Piano Lessons
Music = FUN! Learning piano=discipline,work but NOT grueling, boring. I teach piano,songwriting teknq, composing 4 Film&TV, theory, harmony, composition, improv, home recording. 35 yrs pro exp all above. I help expand musical potential 4 you/kids 2 achieve desired goals. All styles. Great w/kids. Adults & Pros. Rec/perf w/Carole King James Taylor Bette Midler Todd Rundgren Springsteen Dylan Lou Reed WhitneyH Belinda Carlisle George Benson SatNiteLive.Ex Dir A&R SonyRecrds. Cmposer 14 TV series. [more]
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The Galaxie
The Galaxie is a music, movement, & fine art venue located in Logan Square. The Galaxie was brought to life in order to create an environment that provides working artists and students of the arts an opportunity to inspire, and become inspired, by varied forms of expression. Classes include dance, martial arts, fitness, and other movement classes, fine art classes of all kinds, childrens' programs, and specialized art and dance workshops. [more]
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A Vocal Vocation: Studying to Sing (Part III)
Week Three:
I was like a ballerina on stage this week -- on point. The breathing exercises finally paid off. I was singing from my diaphragm -- keeping my rib cage still and trying to visualize pushing my organs down while breathing out.
My hoops and hollers were finally connecting to the satisfaction of my vocal coach and frankly both of us were surprised. Her visual prompts (a tall mirror in which to watch myself sing, pulling a string from my chest upward and not looking up when I go to higher notes) all seem to make sense to my brain. Call me ...
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A Vocal Vocation: Studying to Sing (Part II)
This is the second installment of Darcel Rockett's journal of her learning to sing. To read Part I click here.
I'm light-headed after I leave the music room this week.
For 30 straight minutes, with little sustenance in my gullet, I pipe out vowels and consonants like a cupie doll with musical Tourette's syndrome.
Singing instructor Sandra Cross shows me how to use my body to bring forth sounds of a melodic variety in a proper way, but I have difficulty mimicking her. Her, who just last week sung with Wynton Marsalis while he was marching in with his ...
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