Rock Band Camp
During my time at Middle C Music, we had a resident rockstar, Mark Noone, who taught guitar lessons one day a week, and 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 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.
Along with Mike and the rest of the staff, we became more and more a part of Rock Band Camp. We would set everything up, built relationships with the kids welcoming 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 for 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 private lessons as well. It was a blast and incredibly rewarding. I thought their letters to me were among the kindest and most thoughtful I've ever received and I would love to share them here with you.
