Community Education - Rochester, Minnesota

What exactly is music? Learn basic music notation: notes, rests, time signatures, tempo, key signatures, scales, chords, intervals and expression.

If you are new to fantasy football, this is the class for you! Participants will learn how to draft players (there will be a mock 4 round draft), understand important terms and abbreviations needed to succeed in fantasy football, be provided tools (websites) that make it fun and easy to compete week to week, and how to begin a league. Participants will learn how fun and easy fantasy football can be. ***There will be no content regarding gambling in this course. Participants should bring a laptop, smartphone, or tablet to class.

Learn one of music’s deepest mysteries: how to play songs without relying on music. A very practical presentation of music theory that includes predicting chord progressions, learning from recordings, and transposing-all expressed in everyday language. This is an ideal follow-up to the “Instant Piano” class and is open to anyone who has a basic understanding of chords on any instrument. Expand your musical horizons, and free yourself from sheet-music dependence, and be the life of the party! Prior experience with chords recommended. Fee includes the online book, online follow-up lessons, a recording of the class and an optional monthly question and answer session. Class is held online using zoom.

In just a few hours you can learn enough about playing the guitar to give you years of musical enjoyment, and you won’t have to take private lessons to do it. This crash course will teach you some basic chords and get you playing along with your favorite songs right away. Fee includes the online book, online follow up lessons, a recording of the class and also an optional periodic question and answer session. Class is held online using zoom and is partly hands on instruction and partly lecture/demonstration. For ages 13+. This class will be held online. You will receive an email 2 days prior to the class date with directions on how to join the class.

In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade to give you years of musical enjoyment. Learn to play piano the way professionals do-using chords. The chord method is LOTS of fun and dramatically easier to learn than reading notes. Fee includes the online book, online follow up lessons, a recording of the class and also an optional periodic question and answer session. Class is held online using zoom and is partly hands on instruction and partly lecture demonstration. For ages 13+. This class will be held online. You will receive an email 2 days prior to the class date with directions on how to join the class.

This four-part mastering photography course is designed to take your photographic skills to the next level and help you start shooting like a pro. Each section is part of an educational journey builds that develops essential knowledge and technical skills important to every type of photography. After the fundamentals, we explore portrait, landscape, and wildlife genres, and then dive into the aesthetic and artistic sides of photography. All learning content is fun, easy and interactive. The course format involves didactic presentations, photo critiques, group discussions, hands-on practice opportunities and shooting assignments. Join us and learn how to harness your camera’s potential, think creatively, and shoot professional quality images. Week 7-Portrait Photography Week 8-Landscape Photography Week 9-Wildlife Photography In PART III, we delve into the three most important genres of photography; portraiture, landscape and wildlife. Each topic is thoroughly explored and contains an abundance of shooting principles and objectives to help you get the best shots of people, places and animals. Developing shooting skills in these three areas enables you to shoot anything, anywhere.

This four-part mastering photography course is designed to take your photographic skills to the next level and help you start shooting like a pro. Each section is part of an educational journey builds that develops essential knowledge and technical skills important to every type of photography. After the fundamentals, we explore portrait, landscape, and wildlife genres, and then dive into the aesthetic and artistic sides of photography. All learning content is fun, easy and interactive. The course format involves didactic presentations, photo critiques, group discussions, hands-on practice opportunities and shooting assignments. Join us and learn how to harness your camera’s potential, think creatively, and shoot professional quality images. Week 10-Aesthetics and Composition (Art in Photography) Week 11-Introduction to Post-Processing Week 12-Creativity and Vision Part IV wraps up this course with discussions of the aesthetic and artistic side of photography. This is where we explore how to develop your creativity and vision as a photographer. We also examine how to take a good image and make it great with Adobe post-processing workflow and editing techniques.