instruments and students are encouraged to learn multiple instruments. Instruction is available in electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards and vocals. The students are paired with others of similar abilities to form bands, and assigned a band coach. Dependence upon their peers is credited with being more effective than their own parents at ensuring practice discipline. There are occasional "Guest Professor" workshops featuring accomplished musicians, which include discussions about past experiences, songwriting, live performance, and handling fame. Previous guest professors include Jon Anderson, Earl Slick, Dave Stewart, Mike Watt, former Santana drummer Michael Shrieve Peter Frampton, Roger Waters, Jackson Browne and Zack Wylde The guest may also spend time assisting the students on their technique and may perform a concert with the students. Various locations have launched a "Grad School" program for those older than 18 who wish to participate in a performance based music education program. Five weeks of 45-minute private lessons are followed by 10 weeks of professionally guided two-hour rehearsals leading up to a pair of full length concerts. Locations take advantage of regional opportunities. In 2014, School of Rock Chicago launched Rock City Camp: An Opera of Rock in cooperation with The Second City to create an original stage production to be performed at the Athenaeum Theatre. In 2014, they again cooperated to produce a production of Tommy by The Who. The Portland location has an annual concert of music by Portland bands called Best! of Portland. Every song in the 2014 edition of the show featured a member of the original band, including The Thermals and Typhoon. In 2012, the School branched out with a variation on the traditional Catskill Mountains summer camp with Metal Camp: Mayhem in the Mountains, an intensive week-long event for musicians age 12 to 18, leading up to a concert. The Guest Professors for the 2012 event were "Metal" Mike Chlasciak - guitarist with Halford, Sebastian Bach and Testament, a teacher at the Chatham location and Jason McMaster - bassist with Watchtower, Dangerous Toys and Ignitor who teaches at the School of Rock Austin. Chlasciak was again the Guest Professor. Time Out: New York ranked it as one of the best summer camps for kids near New York City. Fees vary depending on program participation and school location, but it is in the range of "a couple hundred dollars a month." As of May 2012, enrollment at the Wichita, Kansas