WE TEACH ROCK!
You Can Perform at Wyandotte Sunday Socials on August 24
TEXT Dave at 734-673-0307 to sign up
or for more information!
Summer Rock school CURRICULUM
The ShinyHeadMusic.com Rock School offers expert musical guidance and equipment for musicians OF ALL AGES who want to rehearse and gig with others. Musicians of all levels who play drums, guitar, keyboards, bass, and vocals are welcome. We will pick a band name, design a logo, and your one-time tuition includes your custom T-shirt for the gig.
The ShinyHeadMusic.com Rock School curriculum includes printed sheet music (music reading is not required), selected video lessons, Discord-based online collaboration, weekly rehearsals with Dave, and applying the musical concepts you've learned in performance.
ALL MUSICIANS ENROLLED this summer will perform at Wyandotte Sunday Socials (1st & Elm) on Sunday, August 24 at 2pm opening for Raising The Dead Acoustic Quartet.
SUMMER 2025 COURSES OFFERED:
The ShinyHeadMusic.com Rock School curriculum includes printed sheet music (music reading is not required), selected video lessons, Discord-based online collaboration, weekly rehearsals with Dave, and applying the musical concepts you've learned in performance.
ALL MUSICIANS ENROLLED this summer will perform at Wyandotte Sunday Socials (1st & Elm) on Sunday, August 24 at 2pm opening for Raising The Dead Acoustic Quartet.
SUMMER 2025 COURSES OFFERED:
- Beginning Guitar - ages 10+, this group class will make playing guitar easy. TUESDAY nights 7/9-8/20, 6p-7pm. $100.
- Adult Program - meant for adults with some experience, this is a chance to join a new band in my Wyandotte studio, students help choose the songs! Open to all instruments. TUESDAY nights 7/8-8/19, 7-9pm. $200.
- ShinyHeadMusic.com Rock Band Alyse Lyph - the premiere ensemble of the SHMRS, They've played at the Trenton Theater, Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church, and the Wyandotte 4th of July Parade. WEDNESDAY nights 7/9-8/20, 7-9pm. $200.
Your Teacher
Your rock coach is Dave Martin, a 30 year veteran music teacher and lifelong musician who holds a masters degree in Music Education from EMU. While teaching choir at West Middle School in Taylor, Dave started a MusicWill.org sponsored modern rock band. Over Dave's career he has managed, played guitar and sung in many successful bands, including Raising The Dead (a Grateful Dead tribute), DFMartin & Co., The Classics, The Bel Airs, Hubbell Street, 120 Minute Men, the GIPC Band, and many more. Dave has released 3 albums of original music, and was named Downriver Idol by the Southern Great Lakes Symphony in 2012.
Contact
Want more info? Text Dave at 734-673-0307 or email [email protected]
Wyandotte Independence Day Parade 2025
What does it feel like to play music on a trailer in a parade? Like this! Recorded 7-4-2025.
ShinyheadMusic.com Rock SchooL Band Alyse Lyph rocks the Trenton Theater for DYPAC fundraiser
On Wednesday, April 23, the ShinyheadMusic.com Rock School band Alyse Lyph played at the Trenton Theater as a fundraiser for DYPAC. Along with DFMartin & Co., over $800 was collected to benefit the Downriver Youth Performing Arts Center (DYPAC).
4/23/25 Trenton Village Theater
I: American Idiot, Kiss Me, Plush, Figure 8, Iris*, Black#, 21 Guns, Karma Police
*=feat Dave Martin on mandolin
#=feat Dave Martin on guitar
The next session of the SHMRS will be announced soon.
4/23/25 Trenton Village Theater
I: American Idiot, Kiss Me, Plush, Figure 8, Iris*, Black#, 21 Guns, Karma Police
*=feat Dave Martin on mandolin
#=feat Dave Martin on guitar
The next session of the SHMRS will be announced soon.
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SHMRS Session 3 Concert was a blast!
Our third Rock School gig was great! We played Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John, Mr. Brightside by The Killers, Name by Goo Goo Dolls, Decode by Paramore, and an original song by our own Hayla Elle, Utterly Oblivious. We performed at the Wyandotte Sunday Socials opening for Dave's Grateful Dead tribute, Raising The Dead.
Session 4 of the ShinyHead Music Rock School will take place in January 2025. Dave will teach private voice and beginning guitar lessons for all ages this fall, contact him at 734-673-0307 if you are interested.
Session 4 of the ShinyHead Music Rock School will take place in January 2025. Dave will teach private voice and beginning guitar lessons for all ages this fall, contact him at 734-673-0307 if you are interested.
Rock School Live at Wyandotte Sunday Socials 6-9-2024
Alyse Lyph performs Wish You Were Here 3-3-2024
Sunday, March 3 at Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church, 7925 Horsemill Rd, Grosse Ile, MI, free
Here's an article from the News-Herald about our school.
Here's an article from the News-Herald about our school.
