STUDENT NEWS

                              Make Music New York is a colassal festival of hundreds of imprumtu outdoor concerts, celebrating the first day of summer and the joy of music! Glockenspielers, bagpipers, and megap

The secret to becoming a great guitar player is to practice your guitar, however sometimes it feels like you just don’t have enough time. When you do have time, it can be hard to know exactly to work on.  The truth is that if you have just 20 minutes, you can treat yourself to a

Have you been practicing guitar alone in your apartment? Are you itching to perform for a supportive group of NYC Guitar School students and teachers? The time has come!  Here are the dates for our Spring Showcases: Adult Student Showcase OR Join an Adult Rock Band! There are still li

Oscar Maldonado just joined our new Zero to Hero program, where beginner students spend an entire year making their way through all 5 levels of the beginners curriculum, then play a show at a NYC nightclub on March 15th, 2014!  We interviewed him at the start of his journey to find ou

Guitar Hero Have you ever been at a party where someone pulled out a guitar and before long, the whole group was arm-in-arm, fist-pumping, singing Don’t Stop Believin’! at the top of their lungs? That would be an awesome party, right? In fact, becoming that guitarist might just be wha

On Saturday March 16th, several of NYC Guitar School’s adult rock bands put on an excellent performance at New York City’s famous Fontana’s. The Evil Blintzes, Slingshot, Neo Fight, Mobius Stripper, Fermat’s Last Theorem, CTO, The Whiskey Rebels, Loud, Deerkill

Come on out and support your fellow students!  Our Rock Band students have been working hard in the rehearsal studio, and now it’s time for them to ROCK!!!  We have so many bands this session that we’ve split the Rocktacular into two separate evenings of awesomeness. Winte

NYC Guitar School student Philip Abrams has been secretly learning to play the mandolin for two years in order to surprise his wife for their anniversary!  Read on for his story…and his wife’s reaction. My wife accepted a job offer in New York, so we packed up our belongin

Summer Rock Camp at NYC Guitar School is an amazing place for Teenage Rockers to meet and influence each other. But sometimes just rocking at camp is not enough! Here are some of our Summer Rock Campers taking their talents to the stage at real rock clubs around NYC! Painted Rebellion