Rock Band Camp
During my time at Middle C Music, we had a resident rockstar — truly as legit as you’re going to find. Mark Noone taught guitar lessons one day a week, but three or four weeks during the summer he would come in for four hours a day, Monday through Friday, and run Rock Band Camp. It was a concentrated, focused effort by both Mark and all the kids who signed up. It was incredible, but also an incredible amount of work — setting everything up, having everything ready, arranging things so kids weren’t tripping over their instruments, managing all the different sound levels and different experience levels. It was a task that was even too big for the rockstar that Mark was, so the staff got to play a huge role.
I especially was at home knowing exactly how to set up the best instrument arrangements — whether it was five kids or twelve — and along with Mike and the rest of the staff, we became more and more a part of Rock Band Camp. We built relationships with the kids, welcomed them back year after year, and cheered them on at the end-of-week performances for their family and friends.
Rockstars by the Mark Noone Experience
Rockstars
By The Mark Noone Experience
Nico and Lucas
The last year before I left for Fort Collins, Mark wasn’t able to lead Rock Band one of the weeks, and I was given the opportunity to run it. That week of teaching taught me that this space — working with kids, sharing everything I’d learned, helping them create something from nothing — was where I wanted to be. I felt so comfortable, and I knew that sharing the amount of knowledge I had built up over so many years of following my passion was exactly what I wanted to do.
After that week, I started teaching two brothers private lessons, and each of them started their own rock band with a group of their friends. So we ended up with weekly rock band practices and weekly lessons as well. It was a blast and incredibly rewarding. I thought I would share their letters they wrote to me before I left.
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