The Paul Green School of Rock Music is the nation’s premier performance-based rock music instructional program.
The Paul Green School of Rock operates with an open, rolling admissions process. Our school runs in a series of 4 seasons, with each season culminating with a show.
The payment for the school is based on monthly tuition. Included with the price of tuition are weekly, 45 minute private lessons in the instrument of the student's choice. Additionally, there are three hour, supervised rehearsals held weekly to prepare our students for the main event, THE SHOW!
Our shows each center on a theme, and the students spend time delving into the catalogs of certain artists, styles and periods of rock music. Past shows have featured very well received student perfomances in: Pink Floyd's The Wall (which we will be performing this fall!), Led Zeppelin, Van Halen (David Lee Roth era - of course), AC/DC, best of the 80s, Punk Rock, Devo, Frank Zappa, Queen, and many many more fun and exciting programs.
In addition to the weekly lessons and rehearsals, we also hold rock classes, open jams, and seminars that are free to students with such themes as Songwriting, Music Business 101, Tightening Up the Rhythm Section, What Really Goes Into a Tour, How to Get Gigs and Promote Your Band, and more. We also arrange for professional, touring musicians to come to the school and meet, talk with, and most importantly JAM with our students!
For more information on prices and schedules, and to schedule an appointment, please contact us:
Paul Green School of Rock Portland
111 SE Madison St.
Portland, OR 97214
The Paul Green School of Rock Music is the original performance-based, interactive music school, founded in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. We proceed from the belief that the best way to learn to do almost anything is by doing it, and we feel that this is particularly true about music. Therefore, from the moment a student joins one of our schools, he or she is playing music; loud, with other musicians, and on genuine equipment. And before long we have our students playing shows. Not your old- fashioned-wait-through-fifty- other-kids- mangling-their- songs-until-your-child's-turn-arrives recitals, but real rock concerts at real rock venues, before real rock audiences, complete with light shows, stagecraft and (when appropriate) smoke machines. To date our students have played over 350 such concerts, to more than 100,000 people, at such legendary venues as CBGB's, The Trocadero, The Knitting Factory, Caf DuNord, WOW Hall, The Big Easy, Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, and BB King's in Time Square. We have also had the great fortune to be able to perform in music festivals from Richardson , Texas (Wildflower) to Bad Doberon, Germany (Zappanale). Our goal at the school is twofold: to help our students realize their amazing potential as artists, and then to put them on stage in front of as many people possible. To attain the first goal, we have established a highly competitive, yet thoroughly supportive environment, where our students are challenged at every turn. Shows are picked for their educational merit and content (ex. Queen to learn about harmony, Punk to develop performance skills and stage presence, Zappa for a crash course in musicianship), and it is never even suggested that these kids shouldn't be able to play their parts. Thus, if they fail, they fail aiming at the best. And when they succeed, which is more often than not, they have accomplished something extraordinary. I learned along time ago that if you do not tell kids what they cannot do, they may never learn for themselves. Does this method work? I have no doubt about it, and would gladly put my kids up against any other group of kids in the country. Being their biggest fan and believing as much in our students as I do, I then work on our second goal of getting our students out there performing. We are constantly staging our own shows, events and tours; playing festivals and making appearances in various media. It is the best possible education I can imagine, and the results are something to behold. The only regret I ever have after one of our concerts is that more people didn't get to see it. Thank you for visiting our website, and please check out our kids at an upcoming show. Paul Green Founder/Director
