AfterSchool Music Program (AMP)

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.

Students ride one of our shuttles or in some cases walk to AMP anywhere from 1 to 5 days per week, depending on family needs and interests.  A combination of private lessons on the instrument of choice, supervised practice, group classes, ensemble performance, and more offer the ideal balance of intense personal training one-on-one with the pleasure of learning in a friendly, social music school setting. 

AMP is an appealing option for families who would like to enroll in a dynamic music education program, but whose busy schedules interfere with commuting to and from the Music Centers.  AMP is designed to make music lessons convenient, but more importantly, parents of AMP students can trust their children are somewhere safe, engaged by a professional faculty in a beneficial and effective educational program.

Logistics

AMP students come 1, 2,3, 4 or even 5 days a week, straight from school to one of our facilities.  Parents pick their students up from AMP at the end of the day.  Most intensive training activities end around 5:30 or 5:45, but students are welcome to stay until the 6:30 deadline.

In Decatur, students ride the school buses from Oakhurst Elementary, Winnona Park Elementary, Clairemont Elementary, Glenwood Elementary, Westchester Elementary, and FAVE to our facility, which is on E Howard Avenue, just around the corner from the Color Wheel, next door to the Decatur School of Ballet, a block from the high school, where Church Street and E Howard Ave intersect.  Middle and High School students walk, usually in a group, from their schools to our building close by on E Howard Ave.    

In Little 5 Points, we offer shuttle service to our facility near the corner of Colquitt and Euclid Avenues.  Little 5 Points AMP students come from several nearby elementary schools, including SPARK, Mary Lin, Morningside Elementary, the Neighborhood Charter School, Montessori Intown, the Children's School, and Paideia.  We also pick up at Inman Middle, the Neighborhood Charter Middle and Grady High School.

In Dunwoody, the AMP Shuttle is currently available for pick up from the Dunwoody area schools, including Dunwoody Elementary, Vanderlyn Elementary, Austin Elementary, Ison Springs Elementary, Kingsley Elementary, Montgomery Elementary, Woodland Elementary, the Davis Academy, Springmont, and the Montessori School of Dunwoody.  

We will be offering AMP in Brookhaven beginning in August 2017.  Because CMC Brookhaven is in a complex with Rivers Academy on Cliff Valley Rd, Rivers Academy students will not need to ride a shuttle to participate.  We intend to operate a shuttle that will serve students from Oak Grove Elementary, Sagamore Hills Elementary, Cliff Valley Elementary, Globe Academy, Midtown International, Montclair Elementary, and Woodward Elementary.     

Please note:  If you do not see your student's school on our list, please inquire; we may be able to add shuttle service at your request.

Program Elements and Sample Schedule

AMP enrollment and tuition fees include enrollment and participation in our Core Program during the after school hours.  The CMC Atlanta Core Program includes:

• Weekly 30 to 45-minute private lessons in piano, guitar, bass, drums, strings, winds or voice 
• a variety of ongoing Comprehensive Musicianship Program (CMP) courses and workshops, including drumming, singing,notation, harmony, music recording, and more
• Performance Program enrollment: participation in small classical, jazz, rock, or roots ensembles and/or a music theater troupe

Sample Daily AMP Schedule

• 2:45 to 3:15 Arrival and transition to AMP
• 3:45 to 6:15 series of 30-, 45- and 60-minute Core Program Activity and Training Periods, including private lessons, supervised practice, music theory and musicianship classes (including singing, drumming, notation and harmony class), small ensemble (chamber, rock, jazz, or American folk music), video and art projects
• 6:15- 6:30 Final check out period

Please note:  students are free to leave before 6:30 pm.  Once a student is enrolled, we design the student's schedule, including the timing of the private lessons, to accommodate the family's pick up plans.

The Program Calendar

AMP operates at CMC Decatur whenever the City Schools of Decatur are open; in Brookhaven and Dunwoody, AMP is in session whenever DeKalb County Schools are open.  The schedule in Little 5 Points is synced to the Atlanta Public School calendar, which also matches the calendar for the many independent schools represented in our student population, including the Paideia School, The Children's School, and the Neighborhood Charter School.

Please note: CMC Dunwoody offers AMP for elementary school students only.  We encourage interested Dunwoody students middle school and older to sign up for Studio Lessons or the Performance Workshop.