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!

Todd Best discovered his love for guitar in high school and has been performing ever since. After earning his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Guitar from Wayne State University, he built a long and diverse career performing with original bands and spending more than 25 years on stage as the guitarist of the popular cover band The Killer Flamingos.

With over a decade of experience teaching private guitar lessons, Todd is dedicated to sharing his expertise in guitar performance and music theory, helping students grow in skill, confidence, and creativity.

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.

Kim Lange is a dynamic Performer, Vocal Coach and Music Director. She has performed with Blues, Jazz, Pop and Gospel artists for over 25 years including the award-winning Gospel Truth choir, Bobby McFerrin, The Manhattan Transfer and others. She currently sings with Dr Pocket, a 10-piece, horn-driven R&B band and Oak Street Brass, and is the keyboard player for Just One Linda, a Linda Ronstadt tribute project. Kim has been the Music and Creative Director for Unity of Royal Oak since 2016. You can find her, in person
or via livestream, leading her 10-person Music Team each Sunday morning.

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.

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.”

Chris Smith is a seasoned veteran in the southeast Michigan music scene of more than 20 years. He has played bass in numerous projects spanning countless genres from Blues and Classic Rock to modern Pop and Country. His most recent gig was a 5 year stint playing bass for popular tribute band FiftyAmpFuse.