Pentatonics and beyond: improvising in popular music (at City Lit)
City Lit 1-10, Keeley Street, London, United Kingdomhttps://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/pentatonics-and-beyond-improvising-in-popular-music/mg419-2223
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/pentatonics-and-beyond-improvising-in-popular-music/mg419-2223
A fun, relaxed session for ukulele beginners/improvers. Learn the basic chord shapes and strumming styles to get up & running on the uke! The uke is the ideal go-to, travel-with, play-anywhere musical pal whether you’re with others or solo. We’ll look at tuning and hand positions, reading chord boxes, simple chord shapes, effective strumming techniques […]
Pick, strum, thrash, hum and twang your way through a variety of songs in a relaxed environment and gaze in wonder at other peoples’ homes
Explore how to play the acoustic guitar styles and techniques that became the sound of the American folk revival. Learn what makes American folk picking tick, and how the techniques continue to be heard in contemporary guitar. Suitable for guitarists with a basic grasp of picking and preferably able to read guitar tablature.
HOW CHORDS WORKAn introduction into the world of chords: great for songwriters, improvisers, guitarists, keyboard players, and singers. This four-session course is perfect if you want to know more about the nature of chords; how they relate to each other; and how to achieve a more focussed, exciting sound. We’ll examine major and minor chords; […]
Pick, strum, thrash, hum and twang your way through a variety of songs in a relaxed environment and gaze in wonder at other peoples’ homes
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/pentatonics-and-beyond-improvising-in-popular-music/mg419-2223
A fun, relaxed session for ukulele beginners/improvers. Learn the basic chord shapes and strumming styles to get up & running on the uke! The uke is the ideal go-to, travel-with, play-anywhere musical pal whether you’re with others or solo. We’ll look at tuning and hand positions, reading chord boxes, simple chord shapes, effective strumming techniques […]
Pick, strum, thrash, hum and twang your way through a variety of songs in a relaxed environment and gaze in wonder at other peoples’ homes
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/pentatonics-and-beyond-improvising-in-popular-music/mg419-2223
PLAY FOLK & POP GUITAR Each session we present a couple of songs—they might be pop, blues, folk, rock, but I try to keep it varied—and we look at some fun things that a guitarist might do to ‘treat’ each song with some musical details such as customised chord shapes, a fingerpicking pattern, strumming ideas, […]
PLAY FOLK & POP GUITAR Each session we present a couple of songs—they might be pop, blues, folk, rock, but I try to keep it varied—and we look at some fun things that a guitarist might do to ‘treat’ each song with some musical details such as customised chord shapes, a fingerpicking pattern, strumming ideas, […]