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Songwriting | Fall 2025 | 12 Weeks
Sep 15, 2025 - Déc 1, 2025

Songwriting ◊◊◊ 12 Weeks  Remote

Hello Songwriters and Aspiring Songwriters,

It doesn't matter what time zone you're in: This is an online class.

Whether you write songs regularly, or you're just getting started, you will be challenged in some inspiring ways to write a new song every week in this, one of Beacon Music Factory's most celebrated classes.

12 consecutive Mondays
Sep 15 - Dec 1 2025
7:00pm–9:30pm


HOW IT WORKS
Every week, we’ll meet for an hour (or two) and I’ll treat you to song examples to consider, song strctures to puzzle over, a few new ways of looking at songs you already know and lovel and then, most importantly, you will be given a multi-layered songwriting PROMPT (assignment).

The weekly PROMPT is chock full of rules to inspire you, parameters that will help focus your thinking and still more layers for you to consider. Past students tell us over and over how much they learn and how inspired they become by these assignments. It is exhilirating and satisfying when you are eager to dig in and begin writing rather than feeling daunted by a blank page. That's what this class is all about. Throughout the course I’ll provide extra pointers, some harmonic, some lyrical, some conceptual, to keep you going.

I am pretty sure you will amaze yourself with what you are able to conjure on a weekly basis. Your songs will be shared in class each week, and we’ll have substantial discussions about each student’s song; and then, of course, … you will receive your next song assignment!

Acclaimed songwriter and founder of Beacon Music Factory, Stephen Clair has been teaching songwriting classes like this to adults and kids for years—both in the classroom and online.

We will meet over Zoom. I will send full details when we get closer to the start date.

I am really looking forward to seeing you write a bunch of new songs, as you find your way writing sometimes far outside your usual stylistic habits.

If you have any questions, please get in touch,

Stephen Clair play@beaconmusicfactory.com

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Programme or Emploi du temps
Sep 15, 2025 - Déc 1, 2025
Lun
7:00après-midi / soir - 9:30après-midi / soir EDT
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$400.00
12 Séances
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Saxophone Quartet 2025-26
Sep 15, 2025 - Avr 20, 2026

Join The BMF Saxophone Quartet 2025-26

This class will meet once a week for the better part of the school year.
 
(We set it to run consecutive Mondays Sept 15 through April 20. We left that extra room at the end of the school year, knowing there will undoubtedly be Mondays missed due to holidays or weather. Therefore, we'll have the rest of April into early June to make up for any missed days.)
 
We will explore various styles of music in the saxophone quartet medium. Members will be expected to prepare their individual parts each week for rehearsal and prepare for a final public performance at the end of the class. The various intricacies of chamber music will be explored using everything from Bach to arrangements of jazz and Pop tunes.
 
The following are examples of what this class will be about:
 
 
 
 
Open to Adults and Ready Teens
 
Meets Monday evenings, 9/15/25 — 4/20/26
You can choose the monthly payment option.
 
*Again, we set it to run consecutive Mondays sept 15 through april 20. We left that extra room at the end of the school year, knowing there will undoubtedly be Mondays missed due to holidays or weather. Therefore, we'll have the rest of April into Early June to make up for any missed days.
 
7:30-9:00pm
Instructor: Brad Hubbard
Tuition: $200/month
 
 
Brad Hubbard
From 1988 to 2004, Brad was the baritone Saxophonist in the New Century Saxophone Quartet. New Century was the first saxophone quartet to win the prestigious Concert Artist Guild International Competition at Merkin Hall in 1992. Brad performed extensively with New Century throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Some highlights include Weill Recital Hall and Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall; a Command Performance for President Bill Clinton at The White House in 1993; the 1996 Presidential Inauguration of Bill Clinton. Brad appears on the first 6 recordings of New Century Saxophone Quartet on the Channel Classics label.

 

AT LEAST 3 Performance Opportunities Throughout The School Year

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Programme or Emploi du temps
Sep 15, 2025 - Avr 20, 2026
Lun
7:30après-midi / soir - 9:00après-midi / soir EDT
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$1600.00
32 Séances
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supercamp 2025-26
Sep 17, 2025 - Avr 22, 2026

supercamp

32 Weeks
Wednesday evenings, 9/17/25 — 4/22/26
 
7:00-9:30pm
Instructor: Stephen Clair
Tuition: $260/month

(No extra fees to sign up for monthly payments)
 
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Sep 17, 2025 - Avr 22, 2026
Mer
7:00après-midi / soir - 9:30après-midi / soir EDT
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$2080.00
32 Séances
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GEAR WORKSHOP — Sun Sept 21
Sep 21, 2025 - Sep 21, 2025

GEAR WORKSHOP
Sept 21 2025

How do You Work This?

It is time to take control of your live sound situation. Make your PA system Sound Good Like It Should! (Not to mention your guitar, pedals, amplifier, and anything else you're wrestling with). You deserve to sound your best, (you need to sound your best)—whether you're rehearsing or playing a gig.

And it's you who needs to be in charge. In this hands-on how-to with Stephen Clair you will learn how to make the gear work FOR you.

In this workshop, we will make sense of the knobs, the faders, speakers, mixers, microphones, monitors, power, cables (and how to wrap those cables). From load-in to load-out. How to avoid feedback, how to combat feedback.

Bring questions. None of this stuff needs to be a mystery.

Roll up your sleeves for this one.

With Stephen Clair

Sun Sept 21 2025
11am-2pm


Questions? play@beaconmusicfactory.com

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Sep 21, 2025
Dim
11:00du matin - 2:00après-midi / soir EDT
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$75.00
1 Séance
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Guns N' Roses Fall 2025
Sep 30, 2025 - Déc 2, 2025

GUNS N' ROSES
ADULT ROCK BAND CAMP
FALL 2025

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band formed in LA in '85 as a merger of local bands L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose.

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

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Sep 30, 2025 - Déc 2, 2025
Mar
7:00après-midi / soir - 9:30après-midi / soir EDT
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$650.00
10 Séances
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