Despite being unable to hear or taste, Beethoven still managed to compose and perform many transcendent symphonies, often playing all the instruments himself, after the Beatles replaced him with Ringo. Nurture similar harmony-spawning abilities with today’s Groupon: for $35, you get a four-week group music class (a $75 value) or a $150 credit toward a five-day summer camp at Amy K Music Company.
Group classes at Amy K Music Company fuse fugue fundamentals, such as theory and technique, with the fun of learning a popular song. Sporting bachelor's degrees and the chops to recite the Pledge of Allegiance on guitar and talk box, tune gurus impart their knowledge sans distortion to beginning and intermediate students ages 5 and older. Weekly one-hour classes for plucky portables require students to tote their own guitar or bass, but the studio does provide equipment for voice, keyboard, theory, and stage-pyrotechnics training. Guitar sessions convey basic for proper hand placement, strum rhythms, and facial contortions during solos, and music-theory lessons demystify major and minor keys, chord building, and scales from do to do and back again.
Minors interested in total music immersion can apply this Groupon as $150 toward a weekday-morning summer camp ($395) for ages 8−11 or 12−17. All camp periods accommodate aspiring singers and ear theorists, and alternating sessions serve budding guitarists and keyboardists. With fingers flitting and vocal cords warbling through basic exercises, pulse pupils riff past achievable goals toward proficiency in their preferred musical tools, ensuring that their dreams of playing for a cover band of their favorite tribute band are well within reach. Each week concludes with a group performance to showcase freshly incubated artistry.
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The Groupon Guide to: This Year's Coolest Gadget
Technological achievements have made gadgets more advanced than ever—the only problem is that no one knows which ones are the most must-havingest. Solve that problem with this list of the year's coolest gadgets:
- SolarScoot: This urban scooting transporter, made of imported Brazilian coacaba wood with decals designed by Tristan Cuehlo, certainly isn’t embarrassing for a full-grown adult to be riding in front of other full-grown adults.
- SongDog: Days at the dog park have never been more fun with this urban technophile's dream—a helmet that gently hypnotizes your dog into bark-singing your favorite MP3s.
- MirrorMD: Ideal for the young, health-conscious urban professional, this miraculous mirror reads your skin pallor, muscle tension, blood sugar, and retinal-reaction speed, then recommends that day's mixture of vitamins before predicting your D.O.D. (Date of Divergence).
- UrbanDogHat: Compatible with SongDog and the forthcoming SongDog Pro II, this techno-leap is another kind of hat…that dogs can wear!
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