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Progressive Music Center is proud to announce that we are now an authorized Fender dealer!! We have Strats, Tele’s, basses, amps, acoustics and all accessories in stock and ready to go!
Wake Forest location: 919. 453. 1688
Raleigh Location: 919. 787. 1688
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Off to a great start – several bands already up and running with a few song ideas, band names, etc… If this group of rockers is as good as last weeks, and we think they are, we are in for a great concert again on Friday evening!! Video of last week’s camp and concert, which was AMAZING, up in a few days on Youtube and RaleighRockSchool.com.
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Built by RIT students – thanks to Cory Doctorow
“One of my highlights from the Game Developers’ Conference for me was the “Oh No Banjo” exhibit, showing off student work from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s “Alternative Controllers Seminar.” The students gutted a guitar game-controller and built a very credible banjo using its buttons and electronics, then wrote custom software and musical arrangements for it (apparently the Scruggs people rightsholders wouldn’t let them use “Duelling Banjos,” even for a noncommercial, student project). I played it for a while and found it very fun — I totally rocked the banjo for MC Chris’s “Fett’s Vette.”
It’s not too late to register and save for our summer camps, and we still have spots open for ALL camp sessions in our Raleigh and Wake Forest studios! We know it’s a tough economy, so we’re also cutting the 50% deposit to only 20% on all camp sessions through May 1st!
Registration for the GREATEST summer camp experience of your life opened in February! Have you registered and saved $50 yet? Progressive Music Center’s Original School of Rock Camp 2009 returns with an updated and innovative approach to our ever popular camps.
For summer 2009 we will still have our “campers” rehearse and perform a weekly concert, but on top of that we will combine music and technology to offer MusicTech. We’ll have sessions on recording, promoting your music, the latest in music tech gear and how to use it in your band’s gigs and rehearsals and we’re adding more to the schedule everyday. These will be hands-on sessions where you do the work and by weeks end you can take your work with you (we’ll record your rehearsals and gig).
We are also introducing our first ever double week session. We’ll have the same group of musicians for 10 days instead of the normal one week period, and then wrap it up with a huge concert the last day of the camp (see below for a listing of all camp dates and concerts). There’s also an early bird registration offer (only $350 for registration payments received before March 31st!) and if the Gods of Construction are on our side, we may be in our new Raleigh, NC location just in time for the first MusicTech session.
Ready to rock? Ready to learn new music technology? Call or email for a registration form.
ph. 919. 787. 1688 (Raleigh location) or 919. 453. 1688 (Wake Forest location)
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2009 MusicTech Dates:
Camp 1 – Raleigh Location: June 15 – 19 (Concert Fri. 19th @ 7:00 pm)
Camp 2 – Wake Forest Location: June 22 – 26 (Concert Fri. 26th @ 7:00 pm)
Camp 3 – Raleigh Location: July 13 – 24 (Double Week – Concert Fri. 24th @ 7:00 pm)
Camp 4 – Wake Forest Location: Aug. 3 – 7 (Concert Fri. 7th @ 7:00 pm)
Camp 5 – Raleigh Location: Aug. 10 – 14 (Concert Fri. 14th @ 7:00 pm)
**Are you a guitar player, but you’re not ready for one of our MusicTech camps? Check out our new Summer Guitar Workshops. We’ll offer 2 sessions in June and July. Call or email us for details.
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Progressive’s Billy Cuthrell with Gene Simmons
Alicia Keys andKeyboard Magazine Eds…
Progressive’s Dexter Horton & Iron Maiden’s Niko McBrain
Carmine Appice at the dDrum booth
GWAR
Lacy from VH1′s Rock Of Love
She digs GWAR 
Kyle
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2008 is outta’ here and we’re looking forward to all the cool stuff coming up in the new year.
We kick off 2009 with a trip to California to attend the
NAMM show January 15 – 18. Progressive instructors Dexter Horton, Chuck Barchuk and Kyle Long will be roaming the NAMM floors checking out new gear and attending meetings over the 4 day event. Look for cool new gear showing up in our retail shop from this trip and look for pictures and entries of the show here and on our
website.
In 2009 our Raleigh, NC location will move into a bigger and better space at Briar Creek (70 & TW Alexander) that will offer some very cool features and amenities for our students. We are pushing for a late March/early April opening, but we’ll have more details, a sneak peak at our floor plan and teaching room layouts and grand opening info. as we move along in our build out. The transition will be seamless and our teachers are very excited about the new space!
As always, please have a safe New Years Eve celebration and we look forward to a great 2009!
Progressive Music Center drum/percussion instructor Dexter Horton will appear in a documentary along with his comrades in the AC/DC tribute band, Night Prowler, for a VH1 documentary in late 2009.
Filmed and produced at Lincoln Theater in Raleigh, NC by a production company from Atlanta, the documentary focuses on the impact the band AC/DC has had on daily life around the world. Dexter stated, “If you think about how many professional athletic events use AC/DC songs during pre-game, post-game, commercial breaks, etc; the numerous commercials on TV and movies, political candidates, motivational speakers, “tribute” bands, spin-offs like Hayseed Dixie that use their songs during the course of their presentations, then you come to realize that AC/DC has had a tremendous impact over the course of their career”.
See more pictures of the photo shoot during the filming of the documentary here
Off to a great start – several bands already up and running with a few song ideas, band names, etc… If this group of rockers is as good as last weeks, and we think they are, we are in for a great concert again on Friday evening!! Video of last week’s camp and concert, which was AMAZING, up in a few days on Youtube and RaleighRockSchool.com.
It’s not too late to register and save for our summer camps, and we still have spots open for ALL camp sessions in our Raleigh and Wake Forest studios! We know it’s a tough economy, so we’re also cutting the 50% deposit to only 20% on all camp sessions through May 1st!
Carmine Appice at the dDrum booth
GWAR
Progressive Music Center drum/percussion instructor Dexter Horton will appear in a documentary along with his comrades in the AC/DC tribute band, Night Prowler, for a VH1 documentary in late 2009.
