New York City kids have access to all the coolest things, but one of the coolest I've heard about lately is Paul "Ubertar" Rubenstein, who teaches some of the most awesome and unclassifiable music classes on the planet. First he takes his kids and has them help him build one-stringed, microtonal, adjustable-fret electric guitars, tuned so that there are no "wrong notes." And then, with their new knowledge of music theory and their handmade axes, they jam. And boy, do they ever jam - the music they make is exciting, inspiring, and completely unlike anything else.
You can read more about his classes and listen to some of the music at his website: http://ubertar.com/kids9
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So jealous! Why didn’t they have that in Cleveland when I was a kid?!
Also pretty rad is www.rockstarsintraining.com in Los Angeles. It’s great to see music programs out there for little kids, especially when music education in public schools has little to no funding :(
This blast from the past comes to us from the other side of the pond - at the same time the boys in Queen were releasing their early albums, the booming British rock trend made inroads into kids T...
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So jealous! Why didn’t they have that in Cleveland when I was a kid?!
Also pretty rad is www.rockstarsintraining.com in Los Angeles. It’s great to see music programs out there for little kids, especially when music education in public schools has little to no funding :(
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