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New York City Guitar School is a teaching and performance institution with locations in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Westchester County. Founded in 2004, by guitarist and teacher Dan Emery, the school began as a single room in the Recording and Rehearsal Arts Building, on West 30th Street, in Manhattan’s Chelsea district.〔http://www.nycguitarschool.com/history/〕 The school’s five studios currently serve a population of over 2500 students, offering private lessons and small group classes for absolute beginners to veteran players. Additionally, New York City Guitar School offers tutelage in other instruments, Suzuki method courses for young children, and band programs for kids, teens, and adults. Jen Elliott, who was involved with the school from its 2004 inception, became a co-owner of the company in 2012. She and Dan Emery act as the school’s co-directors and program coordinators. ==Programs== The school offers private studio and home lessons, as well as studio group classes, for guitar, bass guitar, voice, ukulele, banjo, drums, and keyboard. Group classes, which run for ten consecutive weeks, are kept small—with a maximum of six students on each roster—allowing instructors to give focused, one-on-one feedback. Additionally, advanced elective courses are offered, covering techniques for playing leads, blues, funk, metal, classic rock, Brazilian guitar, and fingerpicking technique. Instruction is also given in studio recording basics, songwriting, and ear training. The school currently offers an online component for all of its “Beginners” curriculum. Additional programs include a rock band program that brings together aspiring musicians to learn the ins-and-outs of rehearsing with a live band. The program is divided into “kids,” “teens,” and adult sections—with all of the courses culminating in a live showcase. Founder Dan Emery cites the popular video game Guitar Hero as a boon to encouraging children and teens to begin playing instruments. The school’s youth guitar programs have frequently been listed on local NYC sites, as alternatives to traditional summer camps〔http://www.timeout.com/new-york-kids/camps/best-rock-music-classes-for-nyc-kids-day-camps〕 New York City Guitar School has participated in several city-wide, public music events. Most notably, they have organized performances during the 2011 and 2012 Make Music New York Festival and co-hosted the Mass Appeal: Guitars event with Guitar World, in 2013,〔http://www.guitaraficionado.com/new-york-city-guitarists-invited-to-unite-june-21-for-mass-appeal-guitars.html〕 and Acoustic Nation, in 2014. The school’s motto is to “To foster personal greatness through the medium of guitar lessons”.〔http://www.nycguitarschool.com/mission/〕 This sentiment is reflected in the teaching style and overall philosophy of the institution, which unifies commitment, deliberate practice, goal-setting, and personal growth with the enjoyment of learning to play an instrument. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New York City Guitar School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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