For our beat-makers and aspiring producers, we are ecstatic to finally announce we will be offering the Beats & Loops Studio program via Zoom starting in September! Check out our Beats & Loops Studio Lite and Pro options!
The goal of Sunbeats and Rhythm is to help students develop their rhythm skills in a way that feels fun and exciting! Hand drums and percussion will be the primary instruments used in this class and we hope that by drumming together, our students will learn to listen for rhythm, create their own grooves, and improve their overall understanding of rhythm as a language.
If you’re wanting to find some community among the singer-songwriter crowd in Pittsburgh and improve your songwriting process along the way, check out our Sunburst Songwriters group!
Are musicians magicians? Perhaps some, but for the most part, they simply know the tricks to music. Do you know how to play the C Major chord? What makes it major? How do you construct a C7 altered dominant chord? Gotcha there! If you want to start learning some of your favorite songs, stop using online chord sheets and start using your ears!
We are happy to announce that we will be offering online Guided Practice Sessions for Ukulele and Voice starting in September. These classes will be 30 minutes in length and offered via Zoom every Tuesday. The best part is, they are FREE to anyone who would like to join. If finding the time and motivation to practice is challenging, this class will provide the structure you need to improve your practice habits and take your playing to the next level!
Have you ever wanted to make quality recordings of your music on your own terms and time frame? Learning how to be creative with your devices and recording equipment can open up a world of possibilities from improving your songwriting process to recording an album within the comfort of your home!
Our 2020 Spring Break and Summer Camps will be held this year using Zoom! Each camp is an action packed week of creative music making, art projects and performances. Read about the camps and sign up below!
Explore is an introductory music class for kids from ages 4-5. The goal is to teach kids music fundamentals like rhythm and melody while helping to foster their love of music and spark their creativity. Each month of the class focuses on a musical project such as learning to play a new song as a band, songwriting, recording and looping, and more.
So you’ve learned the basics of your instrument, time to join the band! Sunburst Rocks is our group band performance program for kids ages 10-17. This program includes weekly 2-hour band rehearsals and seasonal performances at great venues and events.
Sunburst Rocks 21+ is a band performance program for adults only. Our band members will get together once per week for a 2-hour coached band rehearsal, taking the skills they’ve been honing on their individual instruments and putting them together into a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Ready to make some noise? The Sunburst Drum Ensemble is for dedicated drum set students interested in joining together to make some seriously powerful grooves!
The Sunburst House Band is an audition only program that puts together an all-star group of kids to represent Sunburst. Each year in February we hold an audition open to any Sunburst students 10-17 and choose between 5-8 band members to be our House Band for the year.
