Music Classes in Boston, MA

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...

Alan will be teaching a workshop on tune-writing.

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...

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...

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...

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 Music Production Program is centered around Ableton Live software. Ableton Live has revolutionized the music industry by putting the power in the hands of the producer. Ableton is a Germany-based company created and operated not just by developers but by rather by musicians. It’s one of the reasons for how intuitive people find it’s music production...

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...

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...

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...