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- Live Class Schedule Varies Per Section
- Subscription continues until paused or cancelled
- Live Class Length: 45 minutes
- 1 seat per section
- Homework is optional
- Teacher feedback given during class
- Materials
The teacher will provide all materials.
Rock Guitar Jam Club: Middle School
$19.00 / week
Learn how to play like your favorite rock guitarists and your favorite songs at Rock Guitar Jam Club!
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Description
If youβre anything like me, you love some good guitar-driven rock music. In Rock Guitar Jam Club, we discuss the building blocks of rock and roll. Weβll glean from different bands, learn new songs, and play some of the most iconic riffs ever written!
Weβll answer all the questions youβve been eager to know . . .
πΈWhat are the essential chords I need to know?
πΈHow do I read tabs and chord charts?
πΈWhat are power chords, and how do I play them?
πΈHow do I strum correctly?
πΈWhat are some easy rock songs I can start with?
πΈHow do I use a pick correctly?
πΈWhat is the difference between rhythm and lead guitar?
πΈHow do I play a guitar solo?
πΈWhat gear do I need for rock music?
πΈWhat are some essential techniques for rock guitar?
πΈHow do I do techniques like bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and palm muting?
πΈHow do I play with a band?
πΈWhat scales should I learn for rock music?
πΈHow do I get the right tone from my guitar and amp?
πΈHow can I improve my timing and rhythm?
By addressing these questions, guitarists can build a solid foundation and gain confidence in their ability to play rock and roll music.
Rock Guitar Jam Club is an ongoing, drop-in style course designed for high school students aged 13-18. Perfect for intermediate players, this club allows new students to join at any time without missing a beat. Each week, weβll dive into a different rock song, providing a regular version and an additional challenging component for advanced players.
Lesson Schedule
- January 7th: Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple
- January 14th: Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes
- January 21st: Paranoid – Black Sabbath
- January 28th: Dazed and Confused – Led Zeppelin
- February 4th: Day Tripper – The Beatles
- February 11th: Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- February 18th: Beat It – Michael Jackson
- February 25th: Back in Black – AC/DC
- March 4th: Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
- March 11th: Wild Thing – The Troggs
- March 18th: Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
- March 25th: (I Canβt Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
- April 1st: Feel Good Inc – Gorillaz
- April 8th: Sunshine of Your Love – Cream
- April 15th: My Generation – The Who
- April 22nd: Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
- April 29th: You Really Got Me – The Kinks
- May 6th: Hotel California – Eagles
- May 13th: Layla – Derek and the Dominos
- May 20th: Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
- May 27th: Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
- June 3rd: Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- June 10th: Cocaine – Eric Clapton
- June 17th: Rock You Like a Hurricane – Scorpions
- June 24th: Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne
- July 1st: Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
- July 8th: Enter Sandman – Metallica
- July 15th: Money for Nothing – Dire Straits
Class Introduction Video
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Taught From a Christian Perspective
Our mission is to equip learners’ minds and shepherd their hearts. We want them to have saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and then develop a biblical worldview. This means they view their world, themselves, and God in a way that aligns with what the Bible teaches. This brings great peace and understanding to the believer because we serve a good, sovereign God. This course is taught with these goals in mind. In class, we may pray, read scripture, and discuss how to view the content from a Christian perspective.
We have adoptedΒ The Masterβs Seminary Doctrinal Statement.
MUSIC:
Celebrating Godβs Creation Through Music
Music is a beautiful part of Godβs creation. Students learn to appreciate its complexity and beauty, reflecting Psalm 150:4, “Praise Him with timbrel and dancing; praise Him with the strings and pipe.”
Using Talents for God’s Glory
Inspired by the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30), this course encourages children to discover and develop their musical gifts, teaching them to use these talents to glorify God and serve others.
Building a Musical Community
Reflecting Romans 12:4-5, group activities foster a sense of unity and teamwork, helping students appreciate and respect each other’s musical abilities.
Expressing Faith Through Music
Colossians 3:16 guides students to use their musical skills for worship, enhancing their participation in church and personal devotion, making music a powerful form of expressing their faith.
Developing Musical Discipline
Hebrews 12:11 highlights the importance of discipline. Consistent practice in music teaches perseverance and dedication, valuable traits for spiritual growth and character development.
Embracing Godβs Creativity
Ephesians 2:10 encourages creativity. Through composing and performing music, students reflect the creative nature of God, understanding their musical creations as a reflection of His image.
A Holistic Musical Journey
Our music classes integrates musical education with biblical principles, nurturing both musical skills and spiritual growth. Your child will grow as a musician and a young believer, equipped to see and appreciate the world from a biblical perspective through the lens of music. Join us on this enriching journey!
β¨ π β¨ Why Lemons-Aid? β¨ π β¨
A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW: The Bible, infallible and inerrant, is the very written word of God, who has revealed Himself to man. The Bible is like the light we cast on all content areas in order to understand it, whether that be literature, physical science, history, or geometry. Students learn all content through a Biblical lens. Theology is important for understanding all subject areas. We carefully curate courses that capture learnersβ imagination while pointing them to God through soundΒ doctrine. THIS is most important!
EXPLICIT TEACHING: We understand the skills and concepts students need to learn and know how to teach them. Lemons-Aid’s materials are top-notch, organized, and clear for students and parents to understand. We are especially skilled at breaking down a complicated process into understandable parts. Further, explicit instruction is “a structured, systematic, and effective methodology for teaching academic skills. It is called explicit because it is an unambiguous and direct approach to teaching that includes both instructional design and delivery procedures. Explicit instruction is characterized by a series of supports or scaffolds, whereby students are guided through the learning process with clear statements about the purpose and rationale for learning the new skill, clear explanations and demonstrations of the instructional target, and supported practice with feedback until independent mastery has been achieved.”
- Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching by Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes.
Anita Archer trained Mrs. Lemons in workshops, and it changed her teaching. Read a little more about the research behind explicit teaching here and here.
STUDENT ACCOUNTABILITY = ACHIEVEMENT: Students master skills with us and make gains. We have a high degree of accountability. Since we make promises here and parents are paying good money, we understand you trust us to work! Students have to work too, and let’s be honest: they’re kids and don’t always want to. We push it. We teach them how to stay engaged, we cold-call on kids, we tell them to use the chatbox, and we want them to use emojis! If they are resistant, we contact the student through the teacher tab first. If that doesn’t work, we call in the big guns–Mom and Dad. We want kids to learn. We don’t want them to pass through our classes without gaining skills and doing great learning.
DO HARD THINGS. Boost your confidence, master new skills, learn new concepts. This takes a commitment to do hard things. Like the standards we have for our teachers, we also expect our learners to do hard things, whether that means they stand firm in their convictions, learn geometry, write an essay, or give an oral presentation. You can do hard things!
HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS: To balance our high expectations for their learning and behavior, we build relationships with them. We want them to know we care about and know them. We’ll ask about their play last weekend or the new trick they’re trying to master on the skateboard. We also want students to get to know each other and encourage community engagement.
DEPENDABLE: Multiple teachers are teaching this class, and we have an entire year of lessons planned and scheduled. Since we are a mission-driven organization, we protect our brand and the relationships with our families. We are accountable to our learners. When things come up for teachers, we work to get substitutes and do everything we can before canceling a class. We do not like canceling or changing, and we often teach classes at a loss to give others a chance to join. We have limits, of course, but we are not flippant or irresponsible about canceling! When things come up for students, since we have multiple sections, they can transfer from section to section. All our teachers teach the same content the same week, giving families even more flexibility!
TEACHER FEEDBACK: The back-and-forth work between a student and teacher significantly benefits a student if done well. We follow best practices in designing class time, assignments, and routines. According to Pennington Publishing, effective writing feedback (or grading) is:
- Specific, not general
- Immediate, not postponed
- Routine with a revision / feedback cycle
- Explanatory
- The right amount
- Targeted to the most critical issues
- Varied (written, audio, and video comments)
- Holding students accountable
WORKSHOP TIME: We use “workshop time” so students will work while the teacher answers questions, gets them started, and holds them accountable. In a writing class, the teacher “visits” learners on their Google Documents and watches and helps them write. The immediacy of the feedback/revision cycle with the instructor allows writers to improve rapidly. Additionally, once we started using this method in writing classes, we saw nearly a 100% completion rate in student essays!
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS: Students need graphic organizers to help them see the structure and breakdown of a concept or process. For example, we use them to help learners understand how to write a paragraph or essay and to use the writing process. This is how they learn to develop coherent ideas. They don’t figure out how to do this magically; the graphic organizers and the intentional, explicit teaching help them learn the skills!
STUDENT MASTERY: Each class includes explicit, direct instruction with teacher modeling. Students are guided toward mastery of skills and understandings to grasp the concepts and become independent. Students are held to a high standard of academic work, including often ignored skills like the use of grammar and neatness in math.
STUDY THE BEAUTIFUL
We are surrounded by the mediocre, which is not good! We see this in expectations at some schools, the poor customer service at a store, and even architecture like in a gray, uninspiring complex of high-occupancy housing.
In contrast, we are surrounded by the beautiful, which is good! We see the beautiful in classic literature, music, and beautiful architecture like pictured here.
The mediocre demoralizes learners while the beautiful inspires.
At Lemons-Aid Learning, we study the beautiful: classic literature, artful sentence construction, art, poetry, maths, God’s hand in all of history, and God’s very creation. His creation glorifies Him, and in our study of all content areas, we learn about who God is.
We do not compromise. This means we don’t choose a graphic novel of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We read the original play. We know how to make the complexity and beauty of classic study approachable and understandable to a modern audience. It’s more difficult, but worth the effort!
For over a century, progressive education reform has been βanti-content,β which means they de-emphasize rich content and focus instructional time on things such as self-esteem and βskillsβ they hope will benefit a learner in the future. This is why American kids do so poorly in testing compared to nations with content-rich curricula. We want our learners to increase in knowledge and grow in wisdom, which our content-area experts foster while teaching.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
We serve the Lord and we work hard for families. We work to give quick responses to questions, authentic and careful feedback, and to solve any conflict. As home educators ourselves, familiar with the joys and struggles of teaching our own children, we can relate! We are supporting families, equipping learners, and serving Christ. We are 100% devoted to Him and to you!
To read more about our teaching and learning methods, read our blogs, written by our teachers and staff.
The Lemons-Aid Team
Lemons-Aid teachers have a few things in common.
β€οΈ They love their students and value each of their unique strengths and personalities that make our classes special. Our classes can be described as fun, personal, academic, challenging, and supportive.
π€© We work to keep learners engaged, so there is always a degree of student accountability for their attention and focus, whether that be through asking them direct questions or by using the chatbox.
π We know all kids can learn, but sometimes things are hard! To support students, we teach them how to develop effective thinking and learning habits that will bring them success in class and in life.
π Building relationships with students so they know we care about them helps us balance the high expectations we have for them regarding their effort, work quality, and behavior. Our students are encouraged, cared for, and they achieve!
π½ππΌππ πΏπΌπππππππ: Create Arts & Music
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I hold a Bachelor’s of Music in Jazz Studies Degree from Western Connecticut State University. I’ve been producing, performing, and teaching music to people of all ages for over 10 years. In addition to teaching, I regularly perform, write, record, produce, and mix various music projects of my own and for other artists and clients. I’m deeply passionate about music and creating, and I love to share the joy and knowledge of how to express oneself musically with my students. My classroom is lively, lighthearted, and upbeat. You can expect lots of encouragement while I give feedback and pointers to improve. I aim to cultivate your creativity, stretch your musicality, and hone in on what sparks your musical curiosity. I love to to laugh with my wife. I love to be with my family and the friends who may as well be family. I love to create, whether in the form of music, writing, drawing, or painting. I enjoy that process. As of right now, my favorite book of the Bible is Ephesians! I love meditating on who I am in Christ and what I have been given access to in Him. Ephesians breaks that down beautifully.
Christian Teachers on Outschool
We want to serve you on Lemons-Aid! For first-time learners on Lemons-Aid, you can use the coupon code Newbie20 to get $20 off your first class.
However, if the schedule doesn’t work for you, we will happily teach you on Outschool, but we can’t talk about Jesus.
Use this referral code and get $20 off your first class on Outschool: LEMONSA2020
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