Music Classes in Boston, MA

Join Yaymaker Innovation Labs as you build, decorate, and play a custom ukulele. Choose from dozens of designs at the event that are guaranteed to make your ukulele one-of-a-kind and impress your friends. Sip on a cocktail and strum your troubles away. Our new ukulele making event is running for a limited time, so grab your seat now! At the Yaymaker...

Alan will be teaching a workshop on tune-writing.

Classifiers are hand-shapes that represent Nouns and Verbs in ASL, and they give additional information  such as: location, kind of action, size, shape and manner to name a few.  Comejoin Theresa as she leads you in learning the value of Classifiers, and how to appropriately apply them. A fun, hands-on workshop is excellent for beginners...

Join Paint Nite Innovation Labs as you build, decorate, and play a custom ukulele. Choose from dozens of designs at the event that are guaranteed to make your ukulele one-of-a-kind and impress your friends. Sip on a cocktail and strum your troubles away. Our new ukulele making event is running for a limited time, so grab your...

Music production 101 is geared toward the absolute beginner. There is no prerequisite other than an interest in composing music electronically. Learn to create basic beats and bass lines and begin learning the vocabulary of electronic music. Production 101 is a great class to test the waters of electronic music and see if it peaks your interest. Beginners...

Sing, wiggle, shake and giggle with the Jitterbugs, a joyful introduction to music. Jitterbugs' age-appropriate activities include vocal play, rhythm training, instrument exploration, musical games, movement and more. Includes a Karen K & the Jitterbugs CD.

Our basic DJ 101 course will teach you the ins and outs of the equipment, get your hands dirty in some new technology, and author your first six-song minimix. Gonna be fresh. What You'll Learn: History, including: Why do we play records? Vinyl vs. Digital vs. Controller (Advantages & Disadvantages) The Era of Digital DJing How the DJ setup...

This class is a continuation of Guitar 4 and I’ve been offering it at the request of my students. In this class we continue our journey making friends with barre chords (we’re past the first coffee date and have moved on to dinner and a movie…) plus spend time working on ensemble arrangements. As always, all theory and technique is taught in...

Experience music in the moment, with like-minded people. In an intimate setting, you will get hands-on experience using hardware synthesizers in a variety of different configurations. Through this course, you will gain a basic understanding of subtractive synthesis, functions of a sequencer/drum machine, basic song structure, an overview of performative...

Max will be teaching a workshop on techniques for accompanying fiddle tunes -- in particular reels and jigs -- for guitars and other strumming instruments.

During the semester, we'll play some kick ass rock 'n roll (Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf) as well as explore songs using open tunings (Don't Let It Bring You Down - Neil Young, Diamond In The Rough - Shawn Colvin).  We'll learn how to use a flat pick while finger picking and work on finger exercises that will improve your strength and dexterity....

In this class, we will explore the world of improvisation through a few simple steps. The goal is for students to learn a method for improvisation that can be applied to any kind of music, any instrument, and at any skill level. We will work on connecting our mind to our ears and our ears to our instrument through our voices. The music we will use...

This class is a continuation of Guitar 1 and for you if you’re able to play and switch open chords with relative comfort. As with all of my classes, each week we learn a song or two each of which contains a skill set; new chords, strumming & finger picking patterns, information about navigating sheet music and tabs. Toward the end of the semester,...

This class is a continuation of Guitar 2 and where we learn to make friends with bar chords. I move all of my students in this direction because being able to play bar chords means you’ll be able to play just about any chord you want – if your favorite song has a C#m in it, you’ll know two ways to play it and eventually seeing that chord (or...