Lessons

Ready to start your musical journey? Contact Lauren today!

Our director Lauren makes the whole world turn when it comes to our lesson program! Assembling our student jams, handling scheduling and communication and promoting our program. There’s not much Lauren doesn’t do!

Lauren has played guitar for over 15 years.

Outside of our program Lauren is a mom of two, an outstanding cook and the president of the Rob Thomas fan club. She loves Blink 182 and is an avid reader.

Joining our program, Lauren will be your point of contact!

Dreamed of fronting a band? Want to level up your vocal abilities?

Meet Bobby G.
Our vocal instructor extraordinaire!

Bobby has been performing and following his passion for Music since the age of 12, playing in theaters, basements and everywhere in between!

Bobby studied voice and music at Eastern Michigan University and is excited and can also be seen fronting “Powderfinger”, Detroit’s #1 Neil Young tribute group.

While Bobby primarily teaches vocals, he is also available for Guitar and Bass lessons.

Hard Rock and Metal Fan? Ben is your man!

While he is well versed in multiple styles of music… he is an avid fan of teaching classic, alternative & heavy rock genres.

Aside from teaching guitar, Ben is an avid bicyclist, photographer, model train enthusiast, lego collector, and has a degree in Astro-Physics.

Ben has been active on the Detroit music scene for nearly 20 years, currently you can see him with country act Madison Olivia, and his original project Occlusion.

Want to be the best Drummer you can be? Beginner or advanced players look no further than our very own Duane!

Duane has been playing drums and blowing minds for over 20 years! He has been teaching professionally for 5 years, 4 of which have been spent at Rock City Music Company.

Duane is well-versed in teaching Gospel, Pop, Rock, Country, Hip-Hop, R&B and everything in-between!
His biggest influences include Stanley Randolph, “JRod” Sullivan, Eric “Rain Man” Gaston & Clyde Stubblefield as well as Anderson .Paak, Stevie Wonder, Kaytranata and Tyler, the Creator as some of his favorite musical artists.

You can catch Duane playing all over the country with Ally Evenson & Band.

Want to learn to play Blues? Rock? Country? Look no further than Joe!

Joe is our veteran guitar instructor at Rock City Music Company! He has played guitar professionally for nearly 60 years and has been teaching for a total of 48 years!

Joe's biggest influences are Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles who he actually got to see in concert when he was 9 years old!

You can catch Joe every Thursday at The Crystal Lounge in Westland, where he leads the Joe Ligreci Band, a weekly gig he has hosted for over 17 years! You can also see Joe each and every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with the Mark James Band at the Clawson Steakhouse.

Banjo? Mandolin? Pedal Steel? Uke? Guitar? Jesse does it all!

Ever since he picked up an instrument, Jesse has been making music. From guitar to mandolin to banjo to pedal steel, Jesse plays and teaches it all. Son of the legendary Mitch Manns, Jesse has been performing professionally since the age of 4.

While well versed in country and bluegrass, there is no genre Jesse is unfamiliar with!

You can catch Jesse playing with Detroit’s Derringer as well as his own Jesse Manns’ Bluegrass Band.

Guitar, Bass or Piano? Beginner or advanced? Nick has ya covered!

Nick has been playing an instrument since the age of 8 with nearly 20 years of guitar and 11 years of piano experience. Nick is a Swiss Army knife of an instructor.

He was accepted and studied music programs at schools such as University of Akron, Belmont University, & Wayne State University. Including studying classical guitar.

He has a deep liking of blues rock as well as 70’s & 80’s hard rock & metal. His favorite artists include Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie and more. His biggest influences include Randy Rhodes, John 5, Nuno Bettencourt and Joe Bonnamassa.

You can catch Nick playing locally with his band “Finders Fee.”