Silversound March Newsletter

NEWS AND UPDATES

Silversound Family,
We’re still getting settled into our new space here at Silversound, but I can’t tell you how excited we are about our future offerings. The new performance space is a game changer. Not only will we be able to resume jam class and recital performances, but this spring we will introduce the Silversound Spotlight. We will be bringing in musicians, community members, and entrepreneurs in the local music industry to do education-focused seminars on a monthly basis. The Silversound Spotlight will be included with your existing lesson package, but any friends or family not currently taking lessons will be welcome to attend Silversound Spotlights on a donation basis, no one turned away for lack of funds, just the way Ian MacKaye would have wanted.

In addition to the Silversound Spotlight, our new performance space will allow us to expand our recording abilities. Not only will this be great for folks looking to learn about home recording or the ins and outs of managing live audio, but it also means that we will be able to record — in audio and video — recital performances for parents, grandparents, significant others, coworkers and anyone else you want to share your musical skills with.

We’ll start Silversound Spotlights in May or June, and will be resuming recitals and jam classes performances by the end of summer. The future at Silversound Guitar is so bright we, like ZZ Top, will need to get some cheap sunglasses.

Mark Young, Owner & Founder

Meet Kayla Marino

Kayla Marino is the latest addition to the Silversound family. Coming to Colorado by way of Pennsylvania with a degree in musical theater from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, Kayla teaches piano, guitar, bass, ukulele and vocals.

“All but drums, really,” she says.

Teaching music is a natural career choice for Kayla. “I have always been super passionate about the fact that music programs are always the first thing to get cut, yet they’re always the programs that are keeping kids coming to school and giving them a way to express themselves,” she says. “It’s a safe place and it’s always the first to go and I hate that a lot. I think there needs to be more safe places and more places for kids to go.”

Kayla encourages students just starting to not place unrealistic expectations on themselves. “Just go for it,” she says. “Progress happens differently for everyone for different things. Just because you get one thing really quickly doesn’t mean you’re going to get all of the things like that. Not everything is for everyone all the time and that’s OK.”

As a multi-instrumentalist, Kayla has found that learning one instrument can lead to another. “If you have good pitch recognition and a general understanding of how one type of instrument works you can usually translate that to a lot of other instruments,” she says. “If you know the theory behind guitar, you can play the bass and you can play piano and you can figure it out a little easier as you go.”

Kayla is committed to helping her students achieve their musical goals, and is happy to accommodate the individual needs of learners. “We do everything super personalized,” she says. “I do things different for each of my students, whatever is going to work best for them for where they are.”

To schedule a lesson with Kayla, click below.

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