Countless musicians spend their artistic lifetimes as bedroom guitarists, bassists, and drummers. Innumerable unique songs lie unwritten and unrecorded simply because finding other musicians to play with, form a band, and ultimately enter the studio is not the easiest thing in the world.
Realizing this, Rock Out Loud, New Jersey’s premier music school, created a first-of-its-kind program designed to give kids and teens across NJ the tools they need to form and play in a band with their peers, refine their songwriting abilities, and enter the Rock Out Loud world-class studio to record a tune they’ll make along the way.
Being In a Band and Why Children Love It
To non-musicians, a band is little more than a group of people playing music. Guitarists, bassists, drummers, singers, pianists, and musicians playing anything that could classify as an instrument know that being in a band is like having a second family.
Many children can only dream of becoming a part of a band, and for a good reason. Parents want their kids to be safe, and having them around dangerous electric gear with other children doesn’t seem like a good idea for most adults.
The Rock Out Loud Band Camp is all about creating a safe, pleasurable environment for all its students. Professional teachers serve as educators and supervisors, teaching the students what music equipment is, how it is supposed to be used, and most importantly, how to channel their creative spirits while using it.
Strike While the Iron is Hot
The inquisitive spirit and creative mind of a child can create gorgeous pieces of art. More importantly, children and teens have a strong passion for new things they discover and find interesting.
While being in a band is a fun journey for most people, it is like a dream come true for children and youngsters. Any child that is given an opportunity to play an instrument with peers and like-minded kids will get to grow and develop a range of other skills and talents.
Improving cognitive functions and communication while talking to other band members; getting better at hand-eye coordination while hitting the notes and strumming; unleashing their creative energies while writing songs and lyrics. These are just some of the many benefits any teen or child will get to reap by joining Rock Out Loud’s Band Camp program.
Learning How to Write a Song
Songwriting is as much of a skill as it is a talent, but it needs to be refined and directed nevertheless. A child may be incredibly gifted, but most kids need a bit of guidance and, more importantly, music education, which would enable them to put their artistic thoughts and visions to paper.
The strongest, most emotional, and most impactful songs are often created in bands. People come together, bounce ideas back and forth, and give each other unique perspectives, and a beautiful tune is born.
Rock Out Loud has created the ROL Band Camp for children and teens to have an opportunity to realize these benefits. No idea is too small, and no opinion is irrelevant at our camps, and the students love the experience.
Growing as Musicians
A self-taught musician may master dozens of chords, scales, and techniques, but they’ll eventually hit a plateau because they’ll only have their experience (both mistakes and eureka moments) to draw from to further their understanding of music.
At Rock Out Loud’s band camp, our students grow together and become not just better musicians but also better people.
Our instructors are experienced pedagogues in addition to being seasoned road dogs and will teach your child how to interact with other bandmates, how to use music equipment, how to perform in front of a crowd, and at the end of the journey, how to record in a music studio.
Creating Original Songs
From an infinite pool of ideas, thoughts, and inspirations, a select few only make it to a song. Many beginners struggle to choose the riffs and licks that fit best into a song. After all, it takes years of trial and error to understand the relationships between different chords, tempos, and scales.
One of the main purposes of the Rock Out Loud Band Camp is to help the students learn how a song is made and to use this knowledge to create brand-new, original songs together.
While being a part of a band is a uniquely rewarding experience, the opportunity to make timeless art with new friends is irreplaceable and incomparable to anything else. We take great pride in the ability of our instructors to compress decades of music theory knowledge into bite-sized lessons without leaving the most important elements out.
Recording in a Top-Tier Studio
Once our students make the songs, they are usually more than eager to share them with the rest of the world. Recording music is a complex and often intimidating process even to highly experienced musicians, and to make sure our students can feel relaxed and at home while in a studio, Rock Out Loud is taking them to one of the best music studios in New Jersey.
Boasting the latest drum sets, musical instruments, amps, microphones, consoles, and recording software, our studio is equipped to meet the demands of even the neediest musicians out there.
From recording vocals and scheduling jam sessions to learning all about improvisation, fine-tuning a song to perfection, and recording solos on each instrument with pinpoint accuracy, the Rock Out Loud Band Camp will ensure your child will get to experience all of this first-hand in a friendly, controlled environment.
Our instructors are on the scene with the students throughout the whole process, educating the children about the recording equipment, the gear they’re about to use, and more.
Wrapping Up
If you want to enroll your child in Rock Out Loud’s Band Camp program, you’re more than welcome to visit our website. You can find us at 12 US 9, Morganville NJ 07751, or send us an email as well.
