EMAIL US AT: SACPREPMUSIC@GMAIL.COM

Welcome to

“The Sacramento Preparatory Music Academy Guitar Project”

 SPMA Goals

By offering an on-going Free-Neighborhood-Community-Guitar Class and Ensemble Sacramento Preparatory Music Academy will strive to maintain this mission:

• Connect and Contribute to the Community
• Support personal growth, healing, and communication through music education
• Support hands-on learning in the music arts discipline on guitar
• Offer programming with substantial impact over time
• Develop arts programming for constituents that furthers the goals of our organization
• Celebrate culturally specific, contemporary, and traditional artistic expressions through guitar and song.

Sac Prep Music Academy is working with SGS to find funding for a year long SPMA Guitar Project:  The total budget we are looking to fund is about $9000 which will provide two beginning guitar classes and one guitar ensemble to our Sacramento Community.

SPMA Guitar Project  will run for a total of 42 weeks of the year divided into 4 sessions.

1st Session: July 30, Aug. 6, 13, 20, 27 Sep. 3, 10, 17, 24 Oct 1.

2nd Session: Oct. 8, 15, 22, 29 Nov. 5, 12, 19 Dec. 3, 10, 17.

3rd Session: Jan. 7, 14, 21, 28 Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25 Mar. 3, 10, 17.

4th Session: Mar. 31 April 7, 14, 21, 28 May 5, 12, 19, 26 June 2, 9.

Download:  Contains: Info, Enrollment, Instrument Check-Out Form, Financial Aid Application, SGS Membership Form, Lessons & Policies Waiver. Please fill out all forms and Sign. Bring completed to Guitar-Project.

ATTENTION: [If you are applying for Financial Aid, you must apply, by turning in your Aid Application a week before the 1st class. All scholarships are presented “as needed scholarships.”]

Limited Space!!! MUST RSVP: “Yes I’m Attending!”                 to: sacprepmusic@gmail.com

                                                                                               

Beginning Guitar Ensemble – Limited Space (6 Students)                                                                   Prerequisite:  Students should know all of their basic open chords: A, A7, Am, Am7, B7, Bm7, C, CM7, C7, D, D7, Dm, E, Em, E7, Em7, F, FM7, G, G7. (Students should be able to read and strum chord changes on basic song charts of music written for guitar.)                                                     Course Description: The Guitar Ensemble class will study and learn at least one or more songs per class; we may also use class times to play through as many songs as we’ve learned. The class will study various folk, classic & oldies rock standards that can be played on the guitar and also sung. The students will learn concepts in: chord progression, transposition, rhythm guitar, melody, & finger picking.                                                                                                      Schedule: Thursday 5:00pm to 5:45pm (Follows the Guitar ProjectCalendar.)

Guitar-Project is Sponsored by Sacramento Guitar Society to make music education available for students & families who cannot afford a music education, or attend a school that does not support guitar education.  The cost of each class is valued at $25 per student, per week.  Your donations are kindly accepted, and very much appreciated. If you can donate, that’s great! 

 This guitar project has been a long time coming and an unquestionable need to young musicians in this neighborhood as well as the greater Sacramento area.

Sac Prep Music Academy, since it’s inception, has been associated with providing music education and instruments to students in the Oak Park and South Sacramento area who do not have access to preparatory music education at their public, charter or home school programs. SPMA has provided full-ride scholarships to our summer music programs and to our recent Winter Guitar Sessions, not just to economically disadvantaged students, but to any student of music who is seeking to participate in our music program or ensembles, in order to further their music education and study.

The SPMA Guitar Project is made free to all ages and abilities, through “as needed scholarships,” as it is supported through the generous donations of:

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And the ongoing donations of our many patrons of music education.