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Mid Year intake 2021
01 June
We are a RSL approved tuition centre
SAMI
OUR STORY
Where It All Began
Since opening our doors, we’ve been committed to helping students pursue a career they love. The South African Music Institute provides a unique and highly personalized method of learning, creating an environment to nurture, educate and encourage creative individuals to achieve the highest level of success.
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Mid Year intake 2021
01 June
Mid Year Intake
We have our Mid Year Intake the 1st of June 2021
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ONLINE TRAINING
ONLINE TRAINING
We do offer online training as well. Ideal solution now with Covid or if you are in a remote area or you have limited time to travel.
Please inquire which instruments are available for online training.
Mid Year intake 2021
01 June
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More About SAMI
Our courses are based on an accelerated learning process. We spend a lot time mastering technique on the instrument\s during the first 3 terms.
Your rehearsal schedule will be 4 hours per day, during the first term. Then 6-8 hours from the second term onwards.
We offer different styles such as Rock, Blues, Country, Jazz, Funk, Latin, Metal etc.
Each style has a discipline to develop your skill, You will always be able to reinvent yourself, should the music scene change.
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Meet our Lecturers
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Sound Engineering, Music production
Conrad is an electronic media producer, entrepreneur, lecturer and mentor at heart.
Currently his focus is content production for broadcast, using his wide cross disciplinary skillset.
His career started as an 8 year old working in a cassette duplication facility, during school holidays in the 1980’s. During this period he began his journey as sound technician, and recordist for various conferencing service providers.
As musician Conrad performed and recorded with many household names, from local venues to arenas and stadiums and various studios and in live broadcasts.
Upon completion of his studies he was appointed as Senior Lecturer and HOD Sound engineering at Allenby Campus and Damelin College Cape Town.
Conrad lectured at several Tertiary Education institutions over a twenty year period, with subjects ranging from Film Making to Audio production.
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Andrew Rheeder Drums
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Dean.
Prof. Gerrie Pansegrouw Artist Guitar Player
Guitar, Guitar tech, Jazz Harmony, Composition, Music Industry
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Bass, Keys, Guitar
Bassist Bok van Blerk
Session Muso / Songwriter / Producer
Onbeskaamd / Stassmusic
South African Music Institute
Guitar / Bass / Vocal Teacher at Tyger Valley College
Alouise Studied music and sound engineering and she plays Guitar, Bass, Drums and keys to mention a few. She also compose and write songs.
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Vocal
After completing her music studies in vocals nationally as well as international studies Jolanda Becker opened the Jolanda Becker Vocal Lab in Gauteng 13 years ago, she has also been a vocal coach at SAMI for the last 6 years. Students have achieved great success in the industry signing recorddeals with the country's top labels as well as winning SAMA's ( South African Music Awards), Fleur du Cap awards together with Ghoema and Aitsa music awards nominations as well as . She has also taught vocals at TUT - Musical Theatre Dept as well as their Drama Dept and Stagedoor Performance Academy. The students have also achieved international success with the Eurovision Face and Voice winner as well as the other international music competitions winners in America and touring productions in China and Germany, Dubai and Australia. Young musicians and singers are her passion watching them grow into the true artists that they can become and it remains a true honor for her to be able to work with the incredible talent SA has to offer.
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Annelene Malan Bass, Keys, Jazz Harmony, MT1
Annelene Malan started playing violin in 1991, and bass guitar in 2001.
She’s played in various orchestras, including National Youth Orchestra and Pretoria Youth Philharmonic as concert master.
She received her BT.Mus degree in 2007 from the Tshwane University Of Technology, majoring in Bass Guitar.
In the years since 2003 she’s played with many artists as a freelance bassist, including Nicholis Louw, Nathaniel, Ghapi, Appel, Jesse Clegg, Garth Taylor, Bok van Blerk and Charl du Plessis.
She has also performed in various theatre shows, including Rock A Tutu with the South African Ballet Theatre, The Best Party Show at The Barnyard Theatre, and Blondes at the Performer Theatre.
From 2008 to 2018 she played in the band of the popular music game show, Noot vir Noot.
Annelene has been teaching bass, violin, keyboard and piano since 2012 and is passionate about passing her knowledge to the next generation of musicians.
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Lale Ngema DJ, Production
Lale Ngema, born and raised in KZN, started his music journey in 14 years old in grade 8 when he started playing classical piano. That developed into a passion that led to learning other instruments and eventually joining the marching band & the KZN Youth Orchestra in Durban which he was a part of until after his high school career.
Lale carried on pursuing his passion for music and added more instruments to his repertoire (namely guitar & bass) until he eventually started music production and DJing and became an instructor at the Pioneer DJ Institute for 3 years, teaching over 100 students in that time period.,
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SAMI
COURSES
As a passionate Music School, we take great pride in every course we teach. We have a highly interactive and engaging teaching style that has made us an extremely popular Music School. Scroll below to book a course.
Drums and Perc
Bass
Keys & Piano
Guitar, Acoustic and Electric
Vocal
DJ-ing
Sound
Music Theory
Jazz Harmony
Song Writing
Music Business
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FREE SEMINARS
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SHORT COURSES
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Tech: Build your own gear. e.g. Tube screamer pedal, Guitar TECH, etc.
Song writing- a course to help you write songs even if you have no inspiration at all. Viewing different approaches and writing that hit song!
Music Rehearsal Skills for Bands and Individuals : Valuable tips and disciplines to follow to be successful during rehearsals
Music Marketing and Promotion: How to get out there and to be noticed
And many more....
Instrument training. Aimed at short bursts of input that helps you excel even if you do not have a whole year to set aside to study an instrument.
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TESTIMONIALS
Ruan Graaff
"Studying at SA music institute under Dr Gerrie Pansegrouw revolutionized my musical abilities! In 1 year I was able to learn things that people who get a degree in music didn't even know, weren't able to grasp or do. I learnt that the guitar is a pit of endless sounds and creativity. In a sense I enrolled with Dr Gerrie blind to what could be done through music. Blind to the powerful possibilities in music. After studying with Gerrie my mind was finally opened to the amazing world of music and I haven't stopped exploring since."
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Raymond Rattey
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Hi my name is Raymond I studied at SAMI in 2006 with Dr Gerrie Pansegrouw for a year and it changed my guitar playing drastically and moulded me into the guitar player I am now. I toured the US for 4 year with a band called the absent and am currently playing for local artists such as Karlien van Jaarsveld, Ghapi and other local acts. I can recommend Dr Gerrie as one of the best and professional guitarists and teachers out there!”
PART TIME
SAMI offers part time classes catering for scholars, people working full time, as well as those that would just want to do it as a hobby.
Most instruments are offered at the branches, but do contact us if you have a specialized instrument.
Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals, Keyboard, Piano. ( Brass, Woodwinds and Strings offered at some branches)
Contact us to book your slot.
We also do offer classes nationally through our network of trusted partners
