CLASSES @ JUBILEE ACADEMY
JUBILEE ACADEMY is a Christian institution that provides adults and children with affordable group classes and private lessons in diverse fields of music. Located in midtown Manhattan, our selection of classes equips students with the basic music skills, including musicianship, playing an instrument, songwriting, and worship. When equipped, students can connect to the many performance opportunities associated with Jubilee Academy.
VOICE LESSONS
The people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise. (Isaiah 43:21) Voice lessons provide you with what you need to know to learn to sing and achieve your singing goals. Especially, our lessons will provide you with biblical viewpoint to improve your singing skills. From the beginning of the world, God created people to praise and worship him as Isaiah 43:21 says. These voice lessons will guide you about vocal warm-up, vocal technique, principal of Belcanto singing and many other things so that you can praise God with all your heart and voice.
MUSICIANSHIP CLASSES
Activities includes sight-singing and melodic dictation of major and minor melodies in the F, G and C clefs, with modulation to the dominant; rhythmic drills involving simple and compound meter; diatonic harmonic dictation including triads and inversion, dominant sevenths and inversions and some secondary dominants; and sing-and-play drills involving the same harmonic material.
BASS LESSONS
These Bass lessons function as a link between theory and actual performance of improvisation. They are conceived as practical extensions of the theory classes above. Students play and practice scales, chords, chord progressions and interconnections, and other aspects of music theory as they relate to improvisational skills. In the ensemble portion, students learn repertoire tunes designed to develop fluency in all 12 major and minor keys.
WORSHIP SEMINAR
This seminar is held on a monthly basis to equip Christians with the understanding and high-calling of worship. Often times as Christians, we simply go through the motions of worship. But the worship that God desires is “in spirit and in truth”. This seminar will guide you through the bible and other worship resources, and teach you to live a life of worship that is holy and pleasing to God.
VIOLIN LESSONS
These lessons teach the basic violin techniques that include posture, right hand bowing, and left hand fingering. The lessons also provide experience in string ensembles played together with the instructor. Students will be able to play simple solo pieces as well as orchestral parts.
SONGWRITING WORKSHOP
With the methods taught in this workshop, students will develop all the tools to compose and arrange songs through the knowledge of harmony and melody, and understand the importance of these tools within each song. The student will also learn to use all the resources needed to clearly communicate personal musical ideas in every musical genres, including Funk, Rock, R&B, electronic music, etc.
PIANO LESSONS
This class equips beginners with little to none experience. This class helps students to master basic keyboarding skills with ease. Through understanding scales, basic chords & rhythms, students will be able to perform their favorite songs.
