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Summer camps

This camp teaches your children how to read, write and conceptualize rhythms in a fun and interactive environment using synthesizers and other instruments. Rhythm and time are the difficult musical concepts to understand for most students, this camp utilizes exciting interactive games, fun challenges, group collaboration, and much more to make reading and playing rhythm fun. 

AGES: 9-13

PRICE: $750/session

DATES:  Session 1: Monday, June 17 - Friday, June 21

Session 2: Monday, June 24 - Friday, June 28

CAMP ACTIVITIES:

  • Introduction to music theory through learning music genres 

  • Learn about synthesizers and sequencers 

  • Arts & crafts time building instruments for campers to take home and designing their own album cover or poster 

  • Learn about time signatures, note durations, and counting in fun and interactive ways

  • Group improvisation and counting games 

  • Karaoke Time! 

  • One-on-One time with a teachers 

  • Special guest shows/demos  w/ local musicians, DJs, and composers! 

  • Take home fresh audio recordings made from camp activities and live jam sessions!

  • Field trip to SF Moma to explore the ‘Art of Noise’ exhibit 

  • Park time and urban hikes/outdoor games

SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE:

  • 9-9:30am: Doors open for meet and greet 

  • 9:30am: Rhythm circle and Improvisation games 

  • 10:30am: Learning circle with synthesizers and other instruments 

  • 11:00am: One-on-One time with the teachers or free period (snack time) 

  • 11:30am: Instrument building and decorating 

  • 12:30pm:  Lunch provided 

  • 1:00pm: Special guests and park time 

  • 2:30pm:  Afternoon snack and closing rhythm circle and improvisation games

  • 3-3:30pm: Pick-up time 

WHAT TO BRING:

  • Water bottle (labeled)

  • 1 snack (nut free/no yogurts)

  • Sun hat

  • No sandals

  • Note: please apply sunscreen bf camp

*Lunch and morning snack provided. Please bring a water bottle and afternoon snack.

Students are welcome to bring any instrument of their choosing.


FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW TO APPLY TO OUR RHYTHM MAKES SYNTHS MUSIC CAMP. PLEASE NOTE THAT SPACE IS LIMITED, AND YOUR CHILD’S SPOT WILL ONLY BE SECURED ONCE WE FIELD YOUR APPLICATION AND PROCESS PAYMENT.

 

About Benjamin

Benjamin Gribble is a composer and music teacher living in San Francisco who studied composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He currently teaches piano, music theory, composition, and improvisation privately and at Hamlin School for Girls. He also professionally composes for film, theatre, and businesses. 

He is very active in the Bay Area music community participating in Sunset Piano and Flower Piano in the San Francisco Botanical Gardens each summer. His work with these groups has been featured in the documentary "12 Pianos". He also performs regularly as part of St. Larsen Duo alongside Esther Aeschbach and is part of a music collective,The Notesmen, a group that tests the boundaries of modern notation, improvisation, and noise making. Benjamin enjoys collaborating with artists, dancers, film-makers, and free-thinkers of all backgrounds and skill levels, so please,

 
 

 Video

Flower Piano 2016 In the SF Botanical Garden’s:
The Misunderstood Duckling for Prepared Piano

 

Video: by Barret Edmonds
Music: Shir’s Ears by Benjamin Gribble

 

Audio

 
 

Teaching

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novel and engaging
music lessons

I provide novel and engaging music lessons utilizing popular and classical music to further students’ musical understanding and technique. We will improvise and sight-read together to help develop a working knowledge of musicality and movement.

I strive to help students listen to and understand the music they know and love through musical development and ear training. I am also happy to arrange popular songs and simplify advanced compositions to suit each students’ skill levels. Contact about lessons.

Courses include:

  • Classical, Jazz, and Contemporary Piano

  • Improvisation

  • Music theory 

  • Ear training

  • Composition 

  • Songwriting

 
 
 

Contact Benjamin