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So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star?
By Bob Shallit - bshallit@sacbee.com
Last Updated 2:09 pm PDT Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Step aside, Jack Black.
A real "school of rock" is coming to the Sacramento area.
In May, longtime local rocker Zac Diebels is opening a music school/recording studio in a 3,000-square-foot storefront in Citrus Heights. The goal: train anyone "from 8 to 80" to rock out like a Mick Jagger or Carrie Underwood.
"You not only take private lessons but we put you in a band," says Diebels, the 31-year-old founder of Rock Inc., who was a guitarist and vocalist for local band "Simon Says" in the 1990s and now plays and sings in "Automatic Static."
Diebels says he has lined up seven other musicians to teach vocals, drums and guitar. Training in audio engineering also will be offered.
All instructors are certified rock-n-rollers, having cut records, toured with bands or been in music production.
"We're not people who (teach) after clocking in 9 to 5 on another job," he says. "This is our passion."
Fees will start at $95 monthly for four, half-hour private lessons. Getting placed in a band -- with people of similar age and skill -- for four 1-hour jam sessions is another $120. Using the recording studio to cut a demo tape: about $40 an hour, he says.
Diebels says the school -- at 7360 Auburn Blvd. -- isn't aimed at producing future rock stars. "We're not 'American Idol,'" he says.
Instead, it's designed to give kids -- and adults -- the thrill of playing in a band.
And what's that like?
"You feel that rumble of sound shaking you. There's an adrenaline rush," Diebels says. "And you're hooked."
For the rest of Bob Shallit's column, see Wednesday's business section.
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