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| | Workshop Time 1:30PM, Friday Downstairs classroom
John Lawlor, Easy Alternative Chords
Easy Groups of Chords You Can Use as Intros or Endings on Almost Any Song: I’ll be showing easy substitute chords and some handy ideas for intros and endings. Tuning – C-G-D-A. | Buy Tickets |
| | Workshop Time 2:30PM, Friday, Downstairs classroom
Tim May, How to create solos.
CHICAGO TUNING(DGBE): How to create solos: tremolos, neighbor notes, double stops, cross-picking, minor blues, major blues and more! Hands -on, lots of playing. | Buy Tickets |
| | Workshop Time 4:30PM Friday, Downstairs classroom
Grant Flick, TUNE WRITING
We’ll look at strategies for composition and how to write your own music. By focusing on fiddle tunes and other short term pieces, we’ll discover how writing benefits overall musicianship. This will likely be a larger discussion and steered by student interest. Should be a good fit whether you’ve written a lot or none at all. All tunings are welcome but I will be in fifths of some sort! | Buy Tickets |
| | TGG13 - Concert at 7 PMAn Evening of Tenor Guitars
All seats $20 (student $10)
Doors open 6:30PM
Professional guitarists from around the country come together to present 3 hours of wonderful music using 4 string instruments.
Artists subject to change. | Buy Tickets |
| | Workshop Time 10:30AM, Saturday, Downstairs classroom
Alison Helzer, The Neuroscience of Practice:
What science teaches us about music, learning, and muscle memory. Alison uses her background in neuroscience to explain science-backed strategies for efficient practice and learning. All tunings welcome, but specific exercises will be provided in G-D-A-E. | Buy Tickets |
| | Workshop Time 11:30AM Saturday, Downstairs classroom
AUGUST WATTERS, CHORD MELODY FOR EVERYONE (YES, EVERYONE!)
Chord Melody for Everyone (Yes, Everyone!): This accessible discussion will focus on how we intuitively associate chords with melody notes. Scale degrees and “Nashville numbers” are tools that can help! The process is the same in every tuning. (I will use C-G-D-A). Whether your goal is to sing and strum, jam with others, or play solo, this workshop is designed to help you understand and advance the music that’s already in your ears. | Buy Tickets |
| | Workshop Time 1:30PM Saturday, Downstairs classroom
PAUL GABRIELSON, BASS -NAVIGATING THE CHORD CHANGES.
Navigating the chord changes and bring more interest to your bass lines: I will discuss and demonstrate typical bass lines over common changes and how to fine tune them to support the ensemble or soloist and bring energy and life to a performance. Tuning will be in fourths E-A-D-G (low to high) but will be applicable to all tunings. | Buy Tickets |
| | Workshop Time 2:30PM Saturday, Downstairs classroom
Tyler Jackson, Take your playing to the next level.
Take your playing to the next level - Tyler shares tips for getting better at soloing, timing, and chord melody. Handouts will be provided. Tyler will be using a CGDA tenor but the concepts work on any tuning. | Buy Tickets |
| | Workshop Time 3:30PM Saturday, Downstairs classroom
PAT MacSWYNEY, NATIVE AMERICAN "FIDDLE TUNES" FOR TENOR GUITAR(GDAE & CGDA)
Learn“Old Time” traditional Native American dance tunes on Tenor Guitar. For melody players, we will learn a few traditional melodies that fit for both GDAE & CGDA tunings and for chord players, we will learn to back up the melody. Extending an open invite to any fiddlers, mandolin players or others who might want to join in and learn a few new tunes. Note that there is a rich, centuries-old fiddle tradition among many Native American tribes including the Cherokee, Yaqui, Inuit, Tohoho O’odham, Sioux & Metis, to name a few. | Buy Tickets |
| | Workshop Time 4:30PM, Saturday, Downstairs classroom
GERRY CARTHY, TUNE TYPES IN IRISH MUSIC
A chat about different tune types in Irish music e.g. jigs, reels, hornpipes, slow airs. A scale exercise in D and G – which illustrate the underlying patterns of the tunes especially as they relate to rhythm in Irish music. I will teach a Kerry polka – maybe two if there’s time. Using chords in slow airs. Question time. | Buy Tickets |