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Welcome to CMC Atlanta 
Decatur, Dunwoody, Little 5 Points & Brookhaven

Our four neighborhood community music schools offer an array of historically-informed, innovative music education programs for students age 4 and up.  The opportunities run the gamut from Studio Lessons, which entail a standing appointment for a weekly private lesson, to immersion in after school programs, gap programs, and even apprenticeship and artist residency programs for emerging professional musicians and teachers who are working toward or have already earned undergraduate or graduate degrees in music.  We have something for everyone, ages 4 and up, from beginner to pre professional levels.

Atlanta Music High School

Opened August 2017, Atlanta Music High School (AMHS) provides a unique educational opportunity for passionate music students grades 6-8 (Prep) and grades 9-12. AMHS offers the courses, faculty, and other resources, including designated time, for younger dedicated music students to develop a strong foundation, and for older students to cultivate advanced technical skills, musical insights and artistic expression, regardless of stylistic interests.

Whether you are just starting out or well on your way to developing a gratifying and authentic personal musical practice, we encourage you to compare our programs to find one that harmonizes well with your interests, goals and resources.  We've organized our program catalogue by age groups so you can hone in on opportunities for you or your student.  

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Looking for Camp? 
Piano Camp, String Camp, Drum Camp, Guitar Camp, Rock, Music Theater Workshop, Country/Folk, Schoolhouse Rock Music Video, Jedi Music Academy, Hogwarts Music Academy,   

We offer Day Camps for students in rising grades K-5 at all our locations whenever schools close.  Camp themes allow us to focus on projects that are beneficial and fun, and themes help parents to pick weeks that cater to their student's interests.  Doors open at 8 am and close at 6:00 pm (with both full and half day options available), and we're providing these musical adventures at very reasonable rates.      

Information on all camps

QUICK LINK to Registration 

We also offer a Summer Performance Workshop for students grade 6-8, 9-12 and recent grads.  Students meet for week long sessions to build their skills and understanding  and best of all, to prep for showcase performances 

Info on and registration for our Summer Performance Workshops 

 

CMC Programs Sorted by Age

CMC Atlanta rock students just before their performance on the Main Stage at the Atlanta Dogwood Festival in Piedmont Park

Featured Popular CMC Atlanta Programs

  • Afterschool Music Program (AMP) +


    AfterSchool Music Program (AMP) 
    for students K-8th grade

    AMP is our intensive music education and enrichment program for students that provides comprehensive training to beginners and more advanced students alike in Classical, Jazz, Rock, and/or American Folk music on weekday afternoons during the traditional latch-key hours.

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  • Studio Lessons +

    Piano lessons include performance opportunities
    Studio Lessons  
    private lessons for students of all ages and skill levels

    We offer private Studio Lessons for students age 4 and up at all locations on weekdays and weekends.  Options include:

    • piano lessons
    • singing lessons
    • guitar and bass lessons
    • drum lessons
    • lessons on a string instrument, including violin, viola, cello, and upright bass lessons
    • lessons on a wind instruments, including flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, and trombone lessons
    • composition lessons 

    Whether your interests are Classical, Jazz, Blues, Rock, or American Folk & Roots music, traditional or experimental approaches, lessons with our faculty

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  • Atlanta Music High School +

    Atlanta Music High School 
    for students grades 6-8 (prep), 9-12

    In 2017, CMC Atlanta teamed up with AdvancEd/SACS accredited Capstone Academy to create Atlanta Music High School. Prior to AMHS, there simply was not a private conservatory option for Atlanta teens to pursue rigorous academic and deep immersion in pre-professional musical training. Many students had to compromise either their academic pursuits or passionate pursuit of musical creativity, or they’d leave Atlanta to board at expensive out of state high schools like Interlochen Arts Academy or the North Carolina School of the Arts.

    At the core of meeting the AMHS mission are musical studies that fall into three categories. First, AMHS students enroll in private lessons, usually called applied music in

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  • Day Camps for Kids +

    Day Camps for Kids
    Themed music day camps for for students grades K-5

    Our popular Day Camps for Kids strike the perfect balance between a creative, effective music curriculum and some good, old-fashioned fun.  In our day camp catalog, there's something for each an every young musician-- beginners or more advanced, instrumentalists and vocalists-- ages 5 and up...

    Read more about Day Camps for Kids and see the 2023 schedule by location

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  • Performance Workshops +

    Performance Workshops
    for students grades 6-8, 9-12 (recent grads welcome)

    The CMC Atlanta Performance Workshop provides middle and high school students and recent graduates the opportunity to dig into music making with peers and faculty.  Students can perform just about any style of music, including classical, jazz, rock or American roots, hip hop and more.  The Workshop is open to both singers and instrumentalists, and individual students have the opportunity to rotate between different roles in the ad hoc and standing ensembles we create in the Performance Workshop.  

    The Performance Workshops is open to students grades 6-8 and 9-12 year round.  During the school year, the Performance Workshop students attend weekly small ensemble rehearsals and group classes; during the months

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  • GAP: Gap Year & Apprenticeship Program +

    Piano lessons include performance opportunities
    GAP  
    Gap Year and Apprenticeship Programs for young adults

    It's no secret, college is very expensive.  it's also obvious to clear thinking folks that not every high school graduate is ready to enroll in college immediately. Sometimes a year spent doing something valuable or personally meaningful is the ideal last step in college prep.  Some college graduates or undergraduates also need a year off before continuing studies or moving on to grad school or into the work force.  And frankly, many creative and talented people are better off not going to college at all.  The latter statement is a bold, maybe even radical proposition, but it's one worth considering.  

    We developed our Gap and Apprenticeship Program (GAP) for young adults who

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About CMC Atlanta

Since 2007

 

CMC Atlanta opened in the fall of 2007 as the L5P Music Center.  Since our founding, we've grown from providing music lessons, after school and performance programs at a single site to a network of four local community music schools that offer an array of innovative and historically-informed music education programs to students of all ages and skill levels.  You'll find us in Little 5 Points/Inman Park, Decatur, Dunwoody, and Brookhaven/N Druid Hills.

With our professional faculty working in collaboration with with Capstone Academy, a private school, we're pleased to offer an accredited middle and high school conservatory educational option for passionate young musicians:

Atlanta Music High School

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Comprehensive Musicianship Program

The Comprehensive Musicianship Program (or CMP) Courses and Workshops provide essential support for CMC Atlanta students. Time spent one-on-one with a studio teacher and in group classes taught by specialists work in tandem to foster musical understanding, skills, and ultimately, preparation for performance. Best of all, students who enroll in lessons are offered CMP Courses and some Workshops at no additional cost. Students who study privately elsewhere may enroll in CMP Courses and Workshops by registering as a Selective Student.

CMP Overview

We cultivate genuine musicianship through CMP courses that first isolate individual musical parameters, and then put each new skill and concept back into a larger musical context.  Currently, we offer courses for students in each Division and Department in four distinct but overlapping areas of musicianship, each of which is critical to being a creative, skilled, and literate musician.  The four areas of focus are:

  • Reading Music or Music Notation and Literacy
  • Singing in time, in tune, and with sensitivity
  • Harmony: understanding, feeling, hearing, and creating tonal relationships
  • Rhythm:  understanding, feeling, hearing, and creating rhythmic patterns and relationships

Regardless of stylistic interests, we teach students to read music. While there are valuable oral/aural musical traditions in which reading music does not play as critical a role, we believe reading music is a gateway for experiencing and expressing music across wider historical periods and more cultural practices than otherwise possible.  We also encourage all students to sing, not necessarily like an operatic or rock star, but we think carrying a tune is a valuable and meaningful basic life skill.  Plus, any accoplished instrumentalist will tell you that making an instrument sing is an essential aspect of virtuosity in many musical styles.  Moving in control, and with direction and ease is another important skill in music and in life.  We also support all students in cultivating their understanding of rhythmic notation and developing the skill to move well in drumming courses.  At the CMC Atlanta, students learn the nuts and bolts of tonal relationships first in Notation class, then through Scale, Chord & Key, and finally through courses in Harmony, Improvisation, and Composition.

CMP Courses & Workshops

Most CMP Courses meet weekly for 12-14 week sessions during the Fall and Winter/Spring Terms.  Elementary Division Courses usually meet weekly for 30-minutes; courses in other Divisions vary from 30 to 60 minutes in length.  During the summer months, we synchronize courses for elementary students with our Day Camps for Kids, and courses meet more frequently for a shorter period of time (30 to 45 minute classes, daily for one or two weeks, for example).

While courses meet weekly, CMP Workshops are typically designed to be one to three days in duration, and they typically provide a targeted group of students and/or parents an opportunity to focus on a particular set of skills and/or concepts. Center faculty and guest instructors often share the teaching responsibilities in CMP Workshops.  Workshops are scheduled on a rolling basis by individual faculty. Invitations and announcements are forwarded to Center students and the general public as events are planned.

Berklee PULSE

Another component of our CMP program is offered in collaboration with the world renowned Berklee College of Music.  In the Spring of 2010, the Music Centers were invited to join the Berklee City Music Network.  One benefit to our membership: all CMC Atlanta students are given FREE access to Berklee PULSE.  Berklee PULSE is an interactive, content rich online learning system designed to support students (grades 4 and up) in the quest to become skilled contemporary musicians.  Students who master the material in PULSE will find they are ready to perform and even to tackle collegiate level studies if that is the goal.  Once a student enrolls in the Core or Selective Program, he or she is given a username and password to unlock a universe of great resources developed by Berklee for students across the globe.

Learn more about Berklee PULSE by visiting the website here

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