Drop-In Guitar Class
Easy Guitar Songs for
People
A One-off class with Stephen Clair
Tonight we'll learn Wish You Were Here by Pink
Floyd
We'll go over any techniques specific to that song, and likely
others.
6pm Tues Sept 30
$20
GUNS N'
ROSES
ADULT ROCK BAND
CAMP
FALL
2025
“Sweet Child o' Mine” from their debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987) was released in June '88, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming the band's only US number-one single.
10-week ROCK Band Camp
Meets Tuesdays
7:00-9:30pm
Sept 30th thru Dec 2nd 2025
Performance date TK
This camp will be led
by RYAN HAVERS
Original
Songs Band Camp
You wrote some songs. Why not
play em with a band.
Here's your chance to build your songs from the ground
up.
This Fall. Your songs.
Your song ideas. In this camp we'll work them out, create
arrangements, and the band will learn them. We might even write
some songs together in rehearsals. After 10 revelatory
brainstorming, arranging and rehearsing weeks, we'll put on a
show!
10
Wednesdays
Oct 1st thru Dec 3rd
7:00-9:30PM
Performance Date TK
Instructor: Nate Allen
How Do You Make Good
Recordings?
With Your Ears
Your Introduction to Making the
Recordings You Want
We've been thinking for so long about offering recording classes at BMF, and that has a lot to do with how recording in the 21st century has become a complicated prospect. It doesn't need to be.
Because when it comes down to it, recording should be about listening.
Along comes engineer/mastering engineer (instructor) Matthew Agoglia with an approach that makes complete and total sense to us. And we are really excited to offer this workshop.
If so many radically different kinds of recordings “sound good” how can you know where to begin? Each of those recordings achieve their magic through very different means. The common thread isn't technical specs or gear - it's that the sound serves the story the music is trying to tell.
Maybe all you really need is one $100 microphone and GarageBand to make a great sounding recording.
We’ll spend this workshop talking and listening. Talking about how we can reframe the way we think about recording; and listening to great sounding recordings that are all great for all kinds of reasons, circumstances, and maybe even limitations.
— What story is this music trying to tell?
— What emotional journey might the listener experience?
— How can the recording quality support and amplify that story?
Let’s think about ‘recording’ as creative storytelling, not documentation.
Join us for this super insightful and hopefully inspiring recording workshop.
$75
Oct 5
11am-2pm
Instructor Matthew Agoglia
Questions? play@beaconmusicfactory.com
A R
E N A R O C K (GUILTY
PLEASURES)
ADULT ROCK BAND
CAMP
FALL
2025
These are big numbers. Crowd pleasers. Performed in the biggest venues and blasted from car stereros across the land.
Below are some examples of Arena Rock songs we might play. But, really, ultimately you will decide what sports-stadium-packing songs you will play in this camp.
- Come Sail Away - Styx
- Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon
- Sister Christian - Night Ranger
- Any Way You Want It - Journey
- Home Sweet Home - Motley Crue
- Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
- Blaze of Glory - Bon Jovi
- Father Figure - George Michael
10-week ROCK Band Camp
Meets Tuesday nights
7:00-9:30pm
Oct 7th thru Dec 9th 2025
Performance date TK
This camp will be led
by Bryan Ponton