MUSIC & VOCAL LESSONS

Guitar
Richard Harris the head guitar instructor at The Ultimate Music Center will be offering guitar, bass guitar, and music theory
lessons at the Center for the Arts on Mondays from 2:30 - 6:00pm. These lessons are for beginners to advanced individual students in half hour increments for $15.00 per lesson.

LIST OF CLASSES:
Beginning through Advanced guitar
Beginning through Advanced Blues Guitar and related theory
Beginning through Advanced Jazz guitar and theory
Beginning through Intermediate Harmony...Classical and Contemporary Metatonal harmony Improvisational Guitar...Beginning through Advanced. 

Special topic group lessons, such as Jazz Improvisation and Jazz Harmony and Theory will be available for advanced students in a group setting later this Fall. Group lessons will be conducted, with a minimum of five students, at $20.00 per hour per student.

Mr. Harris is a 1991 graduate of SUNY Cortland. He has performed locally for over thirty years, and has taught guitar, bass guitar, and beginning to advanced music theory for over a decade. Currently he is the guitarist in three local Jazz Fusion groups; one of which performs on occasion at The Blue Frog in Cortland. Richard has also recorded with local, national, and international recording acts.

For further information or to schedule lessons, Richard can be contacted at
The Ultimate Music Center at (607) 756-5456.

Vocal and Woodwind Instruments
Every voice is different, so every singer’s voice needs discerning care given to its development.  Because each student progresses differently, no two lessons are the same. However, each lesson is geared toward helping the individual student develop their technique and artistry as a musician. 

Rebecca Brown first entered the Finger Lakes Region as an Ithaca College undergraduate student. She completed her degree in Music Education at Ithaca, having studied primarily voice and woodwind instruments. Rebecca later completed an MS from SUNY Cortland, also in education. She spent two years working as a public school music teacher, and has been teaching music privately since 1992. She currently works with between 40 and 45 vocalists and woodwind players, a barbershop quartet, and a community choir. New students may be added to a waiting list for the fall of 2007 by contacting the Center. Rebecca adapts each lesson according to a student’s individual learning needs because, as she says, “There is no such thing as a formula for communicating, teaching, or learning vocal technique.”  The goal is to help each student achieve their personal performance objectives whether it is for time in a recording studio, an audition, competition or for a traditional performance setting.

Remember, you are never too young or too old to begin, to continue or to stay polished.

For more information contact Rebecca Brown at (607) 423-0245.