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Jan 20 2024

Music Royale Rock School 🤘

Rock School Students on Stage

Music Royale Rock School provides students with an opportunity to play in a rock band with other students on their level. Since 2003, 5 times a year, Rock School has helped thousands of students get their first gig. Our rock bands perform on a real stage for real audiences. These performances are recorded and available for viewing on our YouTube channel.

Rock School Teachers

Our Rock School teachers are also on our staff of award-winning private teachers and are part of many local music groups themselves. They bring their real life experience and expertise to rehearsal.

Jesse McNamara – Guitar, Bass, Ukulele music lessons instructor at Music Royale

Jesse brings over 30 years of experience as a professional musician to the Rock School class. Performing steadily since the early ’90s, he has played hundreds of live gigs and worked as a studio musician and composer. Jesse has composed and performed music for independent movies, t.v. and radio commercials, and the hit video game Tower Of Power. Jesse firmly believes that above all, playing music should be fun.

Ryan Craycroft – Guitar music lessons instructor at Music Royale 

Ryan has been playing guitar for over 25 years and has a Bachelor of Music from The Ohio State University in jazz guitar performance. He has been teaching at Music Royale since 2011. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Mount Vernon Nazarene University, where he is the instructor of guitar. He has been the lead guitarist for the contemporary service at Trinity United Methodist Church since 2016. You can hear Ryan playing live at local venues around Columbus with his jazz trio and a variety of other groups. 

Listen to hear some of Ryan’s original music

Music Royale Rock School Performances

Teachers provide guidance and support for the students, but what makes Music Royale Rock School unique is the freedom students are given to pick their band name and the music they’ll be performing. Students carefully pick Rock School music with the guidance of their teacher to match the skill level of the whole group.

With the opportunity to play on local stages, students perform to more than just friends and family. Real stage experience prepares students for the rest of their musical career. Meet 2 students who have grown up in Rock School: Evan and Alex.

Check out our registration page when it’s open to see the schedule for the next performance. If the registration page is closed, check out our Facebook page and support these talented students in their next performance.

Written by admin · Categorized: Community & Celebrations

Sep 27 2022

Music Royale Teacher Spotlight: Scott Gorsuch

As we continue our Teacher Spotlight Series, we would like to introduce you to Scott Gorsuch.

Scott Gorsuch
Scott Gorsuch

As a core part of the team, Scott Gorsuch contributes to the Music Royale community as a teacher, guitar repair luthier, artist, and inventor! 

Teacher

Scott has had hundreds of students since starting teaching in his 20s. He started teaching with Music Royale in 2018. His studio focuses on guitar, vocal, ukulele, and songwriting students. He believes in making every musician a percussionist and getting as much experience as possible. To hear more about his teaching philosophy, watch his interview video.

Scott is involved in a variety of classes at Music Royale. He is the instructor for the Free Ukulele classes, he hosts open mic nights, and runs the sound board for our Rock School live performances throughout the year. You can also catch him teaching the always popular How To Build A Pedal class when available, as well as audio engineering training. Check our Facebook page frequently for updates.

Ask about Scott’s lesson availability.

Guitar Repair Luthier

Not only is Scott deeply involved with his lesson studio at Music Royale, but he is also an expert guitar repair luthier. He takes on anything from string changes and set-ups, to hot-rodding and complete overhauls for anybody who walks in our door. As well the guitar repair requests for all the Music & Arts stores in the Greater Columbus area. Check out this Instagram Reel to see some of his amazing work. 

Call the store to get an estimated turn around time for your repair.

ARTIST

Like the majority of our teachers you will read about in our Teacher Spotlight Series, Scott is a gigging musician in the Columbus area and an artist who has released his own original music.

Scott Gorsuch
Scott Gorsuch profile picture

You can find his music on any music streaming platform like YouTube, Spotify, Bandcamp, or Apple Music. You can also support him on Facebook.

INVENTOR 

When you visit his website, you will also find that he is even more multi-talented! Scott is also an inventor! Scott created the Magnetic Double Neck Guitar because he wanted to play a song that needed to switch between a 6-stringed guitar and a 12-string guitar very quickly. These guitars are played by famous people all over the country. Watch Aaron Lee Tasjan‘s Rig Rundown. 

Sean Lennon with Scott Gorsuch’s Signature Magnetic Double Neck

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Aug 09 2022

20th Anniversary Birthday Bash

Music Royale had a special birthday this July. We threw ourselves a 20th Anniversary Birthday Bash! Thank you to all of our amazing customers, teachers, and the families who made it an evening to remember. Watch our memory video! Leave a comment if you see yourself or someone you know!

Music Royale 20th Anniversary Birthday Bash
https://facebook.com/events/s/music-royales-20th-birthday-ba/1033425147535471/

Happy Birthday to Us! Happy Birthday Music Royale! Happy Birthday to us!

MUSIC

The rain did not stop the music at our birthday bash party!

Thank you to Good News Church for the use of their beautiful stage as our Main Stage featuring The Nathan Smith Trio, Lex Bauman Band lead by student, Lex Bauman, Salem featuring long-time Rock School students, Alex, Evan, Avery, Elle, Nate, and Jamal, and the Rock Royale Teacher Band.

From left to right: Dylan Cole, Deanna Sweeney, Jesse McNamara, Sara McCluskey, Larz Raymond, Abbey Bechtol.

Lex Bauman

When the main stage was getting ready for their next performance, our open mic night stage turned into our party’s Jazz/Acoustic Stage featuring teacher, Race Lerma, the Jazz Royale Teacher Band, and Jeff Tobin and violin teacher, Megan Wetzel.

From left to right: Dr. Evan Lynch, Tim Perdue, Ryan Craycroft, Nathan Smith, Maxwell Button

FUN

There was plenty of fun happening under cover at our birthday bash undercover!

Thank you to the Face Painter with Events by Maddy. There were a lot of happy masks on happy faces. We also want to thank the Henna Artist, HennabyHeeruasa for her beautiful designs.

We have another thank you to Awesome Entertainment for the crowd pleaser activity of the party, The Dunk Tank. Watch our video of our teachers getting dunked for charity. All $400+ of the proceeds from the dunk tank went to the Humane Society of Delaware County.

Our last thank you goes to long time members of our community, a family who has taken lessons at Music Royale for years also has a delicious food truck, Big Mouth Egg Rolls, and they made the food for our birthday bash!

US

Since opening doors in 2002, Jesse McNamara established Music Royale as a friendly neighborhood music store. The Music Royale team has focused on creating a supportive and positive community for all music students to grow. Many charity events throughout the year are hosted by Music Royale to benefit local organizations such as, Columbus City School District, Ronald McDonald House of Central Ohio, and more.

Private lessons were only the beginning for Music Royale. Since opening, Music Royale and our teachers have developed many performance and learning opportunities for the students. Check out our Rock School performances, Open Mic Nights, Recitals, & Music Royale Music Makers: Discovery Group Classes for Elementary General Music Students.

Read all of our teacher bios and keep up with their professional gigs by following our Facebook page for our “Listen to Your City” series. 

The Music Royale Team loves to celebrate and make music

Join our community.

Written by Megan Wetzel

Written by admin · Categorized: Community & Celebrations · Tagged: Birthday Party

Jun 28 2022

Teacher Spotlight: Paul Baker

Paul Baker is our first Teacher Spotlight from the Music Royale Private Lesson Staff. He has been a student of Music Royale since before the store officially opened. Once he graduated high school, he graduated to an instructor and recently started helping out behind the counter. Find him at Music Royale’s 20th Anniversary Party on July 17th in the parking lot.

Teacher

Mr. Baker’s likes to personalize each of his lessons to meet the musical tastes of each student. Watch his Teacher Spotlight video to get to know him better. With a degree in music performance from Otterbein University, he uses his experience to expand his students musical vocabulary and personal musical expression. Sign up for lessons with Mr. Baker! Read his bio.

Musician

As a professional performer, Mr. Baker plays with many ensembles in the Columbus area, including a Thursday night gig at Zaftig Brewing Company and appearances at the summer music series, Jazz on Lincoln in Delaware, Ohio. He also plays for many local ensembles, bands, and groups when needed. Send him a message if you have an opportunity for him.

Composer

Mr. Baker is not just a teacher and a performer, but a composer as well. You can purchase Mr. Baker’s original jazz albums, “Blue Lights, Late Nights”; “Philosophy After Dark”, and “A Tragedy of Comedy”. He has a fourth album in progress tentatively named, “A Blue Park”. The release date is TBA, so follow Music Royale on Facebook to find out when it’s finished. You can contact him at Music Royale to order a hard copy of his third album. You can also visit his website to read his personal blog and more about his musical influences.

Music Royale is your friendly neighborhood music store and we are proud to have Paul Baker as part of our award-winning private lesson staff.

Written by admin · Categorized: Teacher Feature

Jun 03 2022

Student Spotlight: Evan Gardner

Meet another student spotlight, Evan Gardner, a private student at Music Royale for 8 years.

Evan is a graduating senior at the Delaware Career Center. He has a lot of exciting things planned for this upcoming summer. He is participating in an exciting internship working with multiple radio stations, WDLR, MY967, an CD929, hosting a show called ”Delaware County Matters” and producing an own original album, “Songs for All the Haters”.

Watch his interview to hear his great advice to beginning students.

Evan performed a full 45 min set in his last Rock School performance this past February with fellow senior, Alex Haas in their band, Salem.

Check out their set. To skip to where Salem starts playing, start the video at 16:22.

Read Alex’s Student Spotlight interview!

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Our instructors create lesson plans tailored to each student’s needs and goals. Music Royale teaches theory, technique, composition, and music production. We are happy working with all types of students; beginner to advanced, young and old, and students with special needs. Anyone with a passion for music has a place at Music Royale.

Here at Music Royale, we understand that life happens, so always feel welcome to discuss with our flexible lesson planners! We are always enrolling students for all instruments. Since the lessons are private, there is never a bad time to start. Read our teacher bios!

Ask about setting up a new student interview to be able to look back on the progress of a new student throughout their lesson years.

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