Chimera Studio is based in the heart of Leicester City Centre and is easily accessible on foot or by bus. We offer free parking and a goods lift for easy access with all your equipment.
All our rooms cost £10 per hour to hire with an additional charge of £5 to record your rehearsal to a CD with our easy to use field recorder.
Our rooms come fully equipped with Mapex drum kits, guitar amps, bass amps and a 500 Watt PA system with plenty of Shure SM58 mics.
All our PA systems are based around Soundcraft Spirit FX8 mixing desks with built in Lexicon reverbs and delays.
We are happy to teach the official "Rock School" syllabus. Students can enter exams graded 1 to 8 and will be awarded an internationally recognised certificate.
Instrumental lessons cost £20 an hour and the price includes all course materials, printed music, software and backing CDs. The rockschool syllabus is easy to follow and teaches all aspects of instrumental performance and music theory in the same way that classical grades do.
The "Rock School" pieces are based on popular styles and the syllabus is regularly updated to keep it sounding fresh. The pieces are both good fun and easy to play, they make it easy to see your progression through the grades and along with our scales syllabus they represent a great way to start playing fun songs immediately and progress all the way to a professional standard.
You can learn more about the Rock School syllabus by clicking the link below
We will be publishing some of our own scale syllabus online shortly.
We also teach our own (more thorough) syllabus alongside the Rock School. Our guitar teacher graduated from Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He has been teaching for 11 Years and uses accelerated learning techniques to teach music theory, chord construction, harmony and improvisation.
Instrumental lessons at Chimera are easy and fun with achievable goals we can easily demistify music theory and bring your performance skills to life.
Ritchie charges £20 for an hour's tuition and offers the first lesson half price.
You will be given the opportunity to play (loudly) on a real kit. Feel free to bring your own or play one of the Mapex M Series kits provided by Chimera. One of the benefits of learning at Chimera is that there is enough space and equipment for more than one kit to be played at the same time allowing students to play along with Ritchie during lessons.
Ritchie's Drum School is happy to teach the "Rock School" international Drum syllabus along with a wide variety of technique exercises and Rudiments. While you study you will also be able to learn to play many of your own favourite songs and build a large musical vocabulary.
Ritchie plays professionally every week with Replica, Leicester's premier live covers band and has been a full time gigging musician since.... He has an extensive repertoire and is dead good too.
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Lessons structured to follow the syllabus at the students own pace.
We also offer a range of services designed to make you look even cooler than you do now.
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We offer products including website design, interactive animation, video of your band shot, edited an optimized for youtube and even fully interactive DVD production.
Our video products can be tailored to your needs. Whether you want a short video to display on your band's internet site or a full production DVD video to sell for cold hard cash, we have the facilities and experience to offer a professional end product at an affordable price.
Animation can really bring your internet page to life.
Whether you're looking to add a little sparkle to your regular band logo or add some fully interactive animated content to your site then Chimera should be your first choice.
Check out our media page for a full list of our other services as well as a glimpse at our portfolio.
Based in Leicester, Replica are a five piece professional covers band who have been gigging regularly since...
You can find out more about Replica including upcoming gigs and booking information by visiting www.replicacovers.com