Progressive Music Center staff and teacher’s in our Raleigh and Wake Forest, North Carolina locations have been using and embracing the iPod and iPhone in their lessons and during in-store events for over a year now, and we are seeing the advantages of the popular devices everyday. With the growing popularity of Apple’s App Store, it is getting harder to not use one of these handy devices during our lessons.
Progressive’s Operations Manager Kyle Long says, “I use an iPod touch to play music between sets during our student showcases and Rock Academy shows. It’s cool because we can set-up playlists that coincide with what the bands are playing that night”.
The overall benefits of the devices show up in the lesson rooms when teachers use them to search youtube and other music sites for music, tabs, lyrics and videos for use during the lessons.
“All of Progressive’s teaching rooms have an internet connection and wi-fi, and at one point I was using my laptop daily during lessons, but once I got my iPhone I realized I could use that for everything I needed. It was nice because I could stop carrying that bulky laptop and my iPhone actually has better applications that what I had on my old computer. I’ve got a metronome, tuner, chord charts, scale finder and tons of other bass/guitar related apps on my iPhone that I use all the time with my students”, says Progressive bass guitar teacher, Larry Dempsey.
Progressive drum instructor Dexter Horton adds, “most of my students have an iPod touch and a few have iPhones. They come in each week and will show me a new App or some music sites they have found and bookmarked. The cool thing is all of my students have a digital file saved on their iPods that I email them after their lesson. It’s just a great tool and I think Progressive is the only music school that I know of using the iPods and iPhones as much as we do”.
