School of Rock (company)
School of Rock logo
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| Industry | Music Education |
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| Predecessor | The Paul Green School of Rock Music |
| Founder | Paul Green |
| Headquarters | 114 Shore Drive Burr Ridge, IL |
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Number of locations
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145 schools in the US 7 in Mexico 3 in Canada 3 in Brazil 2 in Australia 1 in the Philippines 1 in Chile 1 in Panama 1 in South Africa |
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Key people
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Dzana Homan CEO Elliot Baldini SVP Marketing Colin Fitzpatrick VP Franchise Development |
| Products | Performance Program, Epic Albums, Rookies, Little Bird, Band Coaching, Project Studio, guitar lessons, bass lessons, vocal lessons, keyboard lessons |
| Services | Art, Entertainment, Recreation, Education, Children's, Small Business, Performing Arts, Children's Art, Children's Education, Music Lessons |
| Website | www |
School of Rock (formerly known as The Paul Green School of Rock Music) is a music education program. This for-profit educational company operates and franchises after-school music instruction schools in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines, serving more than 17,000 students via 140 locations in 8 countries, becoming the largest after-school music program in the United States.
Though they offer a pre-school introduction to music for children age two through six, the majority of their students are in a performance-based program where students are accepted at any skill level, with the goal getting them on stage, playing a concert before a paying audience. The most skilled students in each school form a band and play concerts in their city, and the top students from each school compete to become a member of an "All-Star" band and tour regionally. They have recently expanded to offering career development for working bands, and "Grad School" for adult amateur musicians. Successful musicians occasionally serve as "Guest Professors" and perform with the students.
Paul Green began giving traditional individual music lessons in his home in 1996. He invited a group of his students to sit in, or "jam", with his own band with disappointing results. But by the third week, he found that the students who played in a group had advanced much more than the students who received only traditional solo instruction. He modified his teaching method to supplement traditional instruction with group practice, with the goal of putting on a concert. He compared it to the difference between "...shooting hoops and playing basketball". In 1999, the most advanced students played their first public concert at an art gallery.
He took out a loan for $7000 in 2002 and established a permanent location for the first Paul Green School of Rock Music in a dilapidated building at 1320 Race St, Philadelphia that has since been demolished. The location had a number of small rooms for individual instrumental instruction as well as larger performance spaces for full band practices. Spin magazine sent Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha to profile Green and the school for the May 2002 issue. Green chose to name the school after himself to avoid both to confusion with the Herbie Hancock television program and to use his measure of local fame, but always referred the program as "Rock School" and answered the phone using the phrase. Additionally, Green established the domain SchoolofRock.com in 2001, first archived May 24, 2002.
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