Education & Classes in Springfield

Old-fashioned singing is the iPod dock of the lungs, but unfortunately, some lungs are silenced by shyness. Today's deal gives your budding American Idol a musical education worthy of their city. For $25, you will get an hour of one-on-one voice lessons at Music Row's Kristin K. Smith Voice Studio (a $65 value). You can buy up to three Groupons per person, but you'll have to use them on consecutive weeks.Follow @Groupon_Says on Twitter.

Amid the store's array of new instruments, vintage instruments, and even some vintage skirts, Fanny and her staff of experienced musicians will help you learn the basics of your preferred instrument. Under their careful tutelage, you'll learn to harness the funk as it escapes your heart, travels through your bloodstream, and wafts out of your finger-pores in a funk mist. At Fanny's House of Music, budding musicians can take the first step of a glamorous journey that will have them rapidly ascending to rock stardom, weathering their band’s unfortunate yet predictable break-up, and reluctantly joining a reunion tour that will pay off their debts and gain a new legion of Japanese fans.

Whether you strum a wooden sound box, plug your guitar into a noise magnifier, or palm the bass, Guitar Lessons 4 You can accommodate your method of fret madness. Along with guided, customized instruction, today's deal includes the use of advanced computer programs during your lesson to enhance your learning experience. Bringing your own guitar is recommended, but the studio can also loan you one for the duration of the lesson. You can purchase up to three Groupons (which you must use in consecutive weeks) and learn the basics to cure post- Lost-finale boredom.

While parents and teachers navigate the dense underbrush of educational materials at The Learning Circle, their kids clamber through the one-of-a-kind tree house that dominates the aisles. Math, science, and language-arts materials for grades K–eight mask a dose of learning in a layer of fun, making education as easy to swallow as a buttered-up fruit snack. While teachers find all the resources they need among the colorful rows, parents also benefit from a smorgasbord of home-school workbooks and summer learning programs that help to stifle the learning loss that often results from months away from the classroom.

Using a glass-cutting band saw, Sam Simms meticulously slices through rippling scarlets and deep cerulean panes of glass before fusing them together with molten copper. The stained-glass artist creates functional and wearable works of art in her studio, which teems with vibrant and eclectic pieces such as jewelry and hanging mosaics. Sam stocks more than 1,000 pieces of glass in her facility—as well as supplies for large and small undertakings—and offers custom commission work, stained-glass restorations, and mosaic-repair services.

Sam loves stained glass so much that she instructs others on how to create it in workshops introducing various methods. During lead-method classes, Sam teaches students the traditional way to make stained-glass pieces such as the ones commonly found on windows in churches and 1984 Plymouth Voyagers. The copper-foil-method classes teach students to wrap adhesive copper tape around precut pieces of glass and fuse them together to craft 3-D works of art.

At The Wine & Easel, Old World aesthetics in the form of brick-accented walls and warm lights lend inspiration to students of all artistic abilities as they perch in front of canvases. Elevated above the easels, an instructor doles out guidance as scenes⎯from impressionistic landscapes to abstract still lifes⎯unfold under flicking brushstrokes. With the company of fellow artists and BYOB sips, students render their own interpretation of each class's theme, from a peacock's plume to a desert cactus, using studio-provided materials and self-provided longing for existential validation.