Learn about tuning your instrument, strumming and picking, simple chords for pop songs, scales and chord symbols on this starter course. Use any acoustic guitar for this introductory course in playing pop, rock, blues and folk styles.
Come and learn to play more songs! This second term of study will suit you if you have experience of tuning your guitar efficiently, know note names up to the fourth fret, and can play the essential folk chords shapes. https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/folk-and-pop-guitar-1b
For sax players with over a year of playing experience who read music, this course follows last term’s Sax 2a. Develop your sound, technique, reading and musicianship. Emphasis on popular music and jazz, including practice at improvisation and ensemble playing.
Continue with your 3rd year of saxophone study. We will play jazz, pop and world music repertoire, and work to improve your technical ability and confidence in playing. Live sessions online. https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/saxophone-3b/me613b-2223
Ideal if you are a beginner or have recently begun to play the saxophone. Any other musical experience will be an advantage and you will need to have your own instrument. You will learn to play and read music in these live sessions online. Repertoire will be popular music and jazz.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
