See performances from your favorite Sunburst Instructors!
Max
Wreck Loose - "Trapped in the Basement" Single and Video Release - Spirit - Fri, Oct 26th
Shane
Buffalo Rose w/ Pokey Lafarge - The Rex Theatre - Sat, Oct 13th
Sunburst is well, partnering with the CMU Cognitive Development Lab to help with some studies involving learning in adolescence. If you’re interested in having your child be a part of one of their studies, please find and complete the questionnaire in our waiting room and be a part of some exciting and important research!
You’ve been working hard, practicing and perfecting your craft, now it’s time to hit the stage and perform! Recitals at Sunburst are the most fun time of the year, when all of our students showcase their musical growth with their peers, their friends and their families. Whether you’ve been at it for years, or just learned your first melody last week, it’s never too early in your career to start sharing your music with an accepting audience.
Sunburst Students! Send us a video of you practicing or performing something you've been working on, cover or original and we'll post it to our instagram on #tunesday! Send submissions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
This years Camp Studio was the biggest and most fun yet! We had a great team of creative young musicians and producers, who really worked hard on the camp's number one goal: making an album in a week. We began with songwriting on Monday and moved our creations through the music production process throughout the week, including basic tracking, overdubs, mixing and mastering. We also crafted music videos for a few of our songs and put on an all original concert for friends and family!
Here's our album:
And music videos for "Friends" and "Dead Dancer":
At the request of some of our campers, here are the stems for some of our tracks. "stems" are the individual tracks that make up a song, which can be used for making your own remixes. Basically each layer of the song becomes it's own audio file, all of which are exactly the same length, so that when you load it into your favorite DAW software (check out Sunburst's Music Production Buyers Guide for tips) everything lines up correctly. If you're using Garageband, loading stems as as simple as opening a new project and just dragging all of the stem files together into the arrange window.
If you have any questions about how to do this, let us know, we'd be happy to help.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DrQicjiAkai8ph05D5XLZ5y6vdGm1ZU0
Thanks everyone for an amazing week!
Whether you’re taking music production lessons with us at Sunburst, recording your band, making beats, or composing chart topping EDM there are a lot of directions music production can take you, but only one place to start!
It’s a busy season for your favorite Sunburst instructors, here’s where you can catch them!
Shane, John O., Ben R.
Casey (and Alex)
Annina
Did you know that many of your favorite Sunburst instructors are also original artists, writing songs, touring and making records?! Cool huh? Support your local music and arts scene by purchasing sunburst instructor’s band’s CD’s from the front desk (and then listening on Spotify ;)
When our Robot Takeover campers arrived on monday morning, all they had was a pile of wood, 16 servo motors, one controller, and a computer. Using their imaginations and some critical thinking, the students used these supplies to create a music-playing robot named Bobert.
It’s a busy season for your favorite Sunburst instructors, lots of album releases and big shows at great venues! get out and support local music!
Shane
Ernie, Kiki, Jonathan G
Alex, Ernie, Ben R, Kiki, Casey, Chloe, Jonathan G
Casey (and Alex)
Chloe (w/ Kevin and Ben S.)
