The 300s — better known as the Practice Rooms by CSArts students, are safe spaces to learn and perfect musical pieces, solos, and auditions. A common belief is that these rooms are used only for the School of Music students and are not available to the whole school, but the CSArtisan has learned that the practice rooms are available to all students!
Instrumental Music (IM) Guitar student Kristina Ghazaryan (IM-G 28) explained that the practice rooms are available to all students, no matter their conservatory. Like many of the students, Ghazaryan wasn’t one hundred percent sure of the rules, “They’ve described it in a very iffy manner,” and sometimes thought that IM students had to reserve the practice rooms for friends. “It’s open to everybody. Nobody’s limited. He’s not going to come and say ‘what conservatory are you in? If you’re not in IM, get out!’” Ghazaryan said.
The practice rooms are primarily used for bands who need to practice, solos, prepping for audition, ensemble practices, and rehearsals. Each room is equipped with a piano, chairs, music stands, and occasionally amps. Recently, CSArts has added portable vocal booths in some of the music rooms and drums are set up but drumsticks are not provided.
For those who play or want to practice and didn’t bring their instrument, Production and Design’s IM teacher Mr. Garn occasionally loans out instruments and equipment for temporary use. Other instruments found in practice rooms are not loaners; they are owned by IM students and are not to be played.
If you are not in IM and want to reserve a room, you’ll find a QR code in the 300s that you can scan. It will take you to] Google Sheets, where you can schedule a room for a certain time and date. However, if you don’t show up, your room will be given to somebody who needs it.
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