Mode 4 Music Studios

Private lessons for guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, theory and audio engineering!

Rock band class!

Performance opportunities - recitals, concerts & special events!

Mode 4 Music instructors are selected carefully and are some of the areas most skilled, knowledgeable, and creative professional musicians. Our student base is truly remarkable with so many of our very talented local youth contributing to our enrollment!

Our performance stage in our band room is complete with full state of the art backline (including 2 Marshall JVM 410 half stacks), crossed over P.A. system with a Mackie Onyx 24x4, signal processing by DBX, Alesis and Antares, Crown Amplification, (2) 18" JBL SRX subs, (2) 15" JBL SRX mains and 4 Yamaha stage monitors, Korg D-1600 hard drive recorder, and stage lighting!

Our Control Room features Digidesign's industry standard Pro Tools 10 recording software with Digi 002, 24-bit/96 khz resolution and 48 tracks of simultaneous recording!

Our student bands:

6 Car Pile-Up
All Wheel Drive
Non-Compliant
Eclipse
Bad Habbit
The People
Fate Undecided
The Real McCoy's
Straight Flush
A Step Too Far
Blonde Persuasion
Chernobog
The Unknown
FuseBox Fire
The Insaniacs
Tyme Flyers
Jack In The Box and The Crawling Rocks
The Volume
Shoota
Ace Of Spades
F.R.E.D.
Fantastic 5
The Range
Sludge
Ear Funk
Sugar Rush
Lack Of Oxygen
Absolute Zero
Riptide
Paint The Paradox
Splashburn
Furious 5
R.I.P. The Paradox



We offer 2 concerts per year for our students and other special event performance opportunities on occasion when possible. Past special event performances include Barnstables Kids Day at Barnstable High School, Barnstable County Fair, Barnstable 4th of July parade on Main Street in Hyannis, Barnstable Youth at Mall Night (YAMN) at the Cape Cod Mall, Sandwich High School Battle of the Bands and the Chowder Fest at Cape Cod Melody Tent!

Sometimes we are able to offer concert field trips to interested students to go see some of the bands that influence and inspire them the most. Some of the bands/artists we have been to see on concert field trips include Aerosmith, Dropkick Murphy's, Dream Theater, Paramore, Paper Route, Jack's Mannequin, The Swellers, Colbie Caillat, Howie Day, Disturbed, Slipknot, Lifehouse, Daughtry, Nile, Gwar, Mayhem Fest, Motley Crue, Dweezil Zappa, Summer Slaughter, Janelle Monae, No Doubt, Joe Perry, Motorhead, Kreator, New Found Glory, Kadawatha, Owl City, Maroon 5, Conditions, Anarbor & VersaEmerge.


Meet the owner:

Tony Bonelli; Guitar, Bass, Drums, Voice, Audio Engineering, Rock Band Class

A musician of 23 years and a pioneer of the "Rock Band Class" phenomenon, Tony Bonelli has been dedicated to teaching private music lessons and rock band classes to students from Sandwich, Hyannis and all of Cape Cod since 1997. He stays very much in tune with today’s pop culture and his unique ability to communicate music to his students builds a sincere sense of enthusiasm and real results.

Tony grew up surrounded by classic rock as most of his family members are musicians and/or avid listeners. From age 13 through high school, he practiced and studied music 3-5 hours a day and aced his music theory classes. During that time, Tony performed as a lead guitarist in several bands including original progressive rock band Deviation. Later he performed 3-5 nights a week as a lead guitarist/lead vocalist in retro show band Daughter Judy for 3 years. Tony has studied guitar and music theory with Kevin Murphy, drums with Martin Vasquez and voice with Donna Prypin.

By his mid-teens, Tony was teaching children from his neighborhood informally and was hired by two different local parents to teach their respective children beginner piano and theory. His teaching career started more officially in 1997 when he began to aid director Kari Lee as a driving force in the development of her local music school Score Music Studios. There he carried up to 60 students per week and started to develop his rock band class curriculum coaching up to 5 rock band classes per week.

Tony has performed in and conducted business for regionally successful live bands. He has been running his recording studio since 2000 producing several album projects and numerous demo projects. He also has owned a successful live sound reinforcement business since 2000 working with bands that play rock, blues, reggae, ska, and jazz. Through local night clubs Kendrick's and Pufferbellie's he has engineered live sound for R&B, Hip Hop, Rap, and Reggaeton artists including such high profile entertainers as Nappy Roots, Flavor Flav, Sugar Hill Gang, and Mr. Vegas.

In July of 2005 Tony opened Mode 4 Music Studios and now keeps busy teaching a landmark 100 private students and 8 band classes per week. Since 2006 Tony has been hired by Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton for about 9-10 hours per week in the summers to work with his son Julian on a variety of things ranging from drums, bass, guitar and voice to band classes and Pro Tools focused audio engineering for recording studio applications. From 2007 to 2009 he was a partner in the School to Careers Partnership through Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School taking in an intern 4 days per week during the school year. In July of 2009 Tony achieved a 3.87 GPA with the completion of a Production and Guitar Master Certificate through BerkleeMusic, the NEASC accredited and UCEA award winning online extension school for Berklee College Of Music in Boston. He is a member of ASCAP, a full member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and an associate member of The Recording Academy. In the winter of 2010, Tony passed the Pro Tools 200 level courses at New England Institute of Art and is now one of only 9 Digidesign certified Pro Tools HD8 (Music) Operators in MA.