Are you looking for the perfect guitar for your child or teenager? Or perhaps you’re an adult looking to pick up the guitar for the first time? At Grosse Pointe Music Academy, we recommend the following guitars based on age and skill level: Child Guitar Beginners Needing a Smaller Body Guitar Yamaha JR1 3/4 Size […]
Acoustic Guitar
Roberto Venn School of Luthiery prepares students to build, repair guitars for career
Downtown Devil by Molly Bilker It’s 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and the workroom of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery is alive with sound: hammering noises, scraping, footsteps. Students move from workbench to drawers against the wall, outside to sand down a guitar neck or body, back inside to the sink, around again to the workbench. Roberto Venn […]
Matt Watroba and Robert Jones Performing in Grosse Pointe
The Outreach Committee of Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church is sponsoring a full concert performance of modern folk and acoustic blues by Matt Watroba and Robert Jones on the evening of Martin Luther King Day, January 16th, at 7:00 PM. Our chapel is a perfect venue, offering the intimate atmosphere and excellent acoustics that will make this event very memorable. Matt […]
What’s your favorite guitar solo?
Knowing lot’s of chords and lot’s of scales is a good thing. Knowing how chords and scales interact functionally with one another is very empowering for the creative musician. The notes in a chord are a subset of a particular parent scale. The most common scale is the Major scale which contains 7 notes and […]
They tell me to start on acoustic but I’ve decided to start with electric guitar
Yesterday I gave you my thoughts on whether to start on acoustic or electric guitar as a beginning player. Instead of just saying you should start on acoustic, I rambled off 400 or more words so that my blog would be effective for online search engines. While I gave my opinion that I think everyone […]
Acoustic or Electric. What should beginners play?
Beginning guitar players are often faced with the dilemma of choosing the type of guitar to play first as they begin lessons. Many people love the looks of the electric guitar but heard somewhere that you should always start out playing the acoustic guitar. Other people have heard that you always want to start on […]
Join the Guitar Ensemble at Grosse Pointe Music Academy
Metro Detroit guitarists now have the chance to play in a group with other six-stringers. You can have the same experience that middle school or high school band and orchestra students so vitally benefit from. Guitar Ensemble class is not designed to replace your private lesson instruction. Instead, it is meant to be a supplementary […]
Group Guitar Classes start in September
Starting this fall, Grosse Pointe Music Academy will have 60 minute group guitar lessons. Group lessons are a fun and affordable way to get beginner guitar instruction. We have guitar classes for ages 8-12 and ages 13 to Adult. Group Guitar Classes will consist of learning guitar skills, techniques, chords, and songs; then practicing them […]
Concert at Marge’s Bar in Grosse Pointe Park
My Dear Friends, ESPN has broadcast from there, and for nearly 40 years, many of the area’s greatest jazz artists have performed there. And now, startingSunday, August 21st, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Ben Steel & His Bare Hands, members of the award-winning Balduck Mountain Ramblers, will open a new musical era at Marge’s Bar & Grille in Grosse […]