10.00 - 13.00
10.00 - 13.00 experienced beginner AND lower intermediate handouts
experienced beginner AND lower intermediate workshop
A Foundation of Good Tunes and Useful Practices
- Strumming (accuracy, swing vs. straight, and variation)
- I'll show you how to make easy versions of just about any tune, and then I'll show you how to make them a little bit fancier. Nothing crazy.
- Play Melody in Three Places (melody string, up high on the melody string, and bass string)
- Backup Chords (shortcut chords for lower levels)
- Minimal Chord Melody (the easiest way to play chords and melody at the same time)
- PLUS Some of my favorite tunes and arrangements.
14.30 - 17.30
14.30 - 17.30 intermediate AND upper-level handouts
intermediate AND upper-level workshop
How to Build on Your Foundation - Play Interesting Music
- You don't have to know hundreds of tunes to make listenable and interesting music. You really just need to learn how to make a handful of your favorite melodies more fun to play and listen to. I'm going to show you a group of techniques that build on the foundational ideas presented in the previous workshop.
- Flat-picking and playing melodies across the strings. (easy and fancier)
- Finger-picking
- Next-Level Backup Chords
- Generating Harmonies EASILY
- MORE Chord-Melody Techniques
- Creating Intros, Endings, and Cool Licks
- Right and Left-Hand Exercises (for picking and fingering improvement)
- MORE How to Make Simple Things Fancier