Fall 2017 Guitar Workshops in Palo Alto
October 2 - December 7 • Nine weeks (no classes the week of Thanksgiving)
October 2 - December 7 • Nine weeks (no classes the week of Thanksgiving)
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Mondays:
5PM - Starting to Play 6PM - Folk Standards 7PM - Starting to Play |
Tuesdays:
5PM - Bluegrass & Carter Style #2 6PM - Songwriting 7PM - Americana Music & Its Roots #6 |
Wednesdays:
5PM - Americana Music & Its Roots #6 6PM - Easy Classic Rock #1 7PM - Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Harmony Singing |
Thursdays:
5PM - Folk Favorites #2 6PM - Already Picking Some 7PM - Easy Alternative Rock |
Class descriptions and on-line registration below
All classes are taught at Gryphon Stringed Instruments
211 Lambert Ave, Palo Alto
All classes are taught at Gryphon Stringed Instruments
211 Lambert Ave, Palo Alto
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MONDAYS
5PM: Starting to Play (level 1) For total beginners or those who know only a few chords. We’ll learn how to accompany songs with 9 basic chords, 4 different strums, bass runs and hammering-on. 17 great folk, country, and easy rock songs. This class is popular, so it is offered at two times. 6PM: Folk Standards
(level 1-2) For those who know basic chords but are still slow changing from one chord to the next (especially the F chord). We’ll review the basic strums and chords, do lots of chord drills, learn new chords, new strums, bass runs, and 18 timeless folk, country, and rock songs. 7PM: Starting to Play
(level 1) For total beginners or those who know only a few chords. We’ll learn how to accompany songs with 9 basic chords, 4 different strums, bass runs and hammering-on. 17 great folk, country, and easy rock songs. This class is popular, so it is offered at two times. |
TUESDAYS
5PM: Bluegrass & Carter Style #2 (songs level 2-3; leads level 3-4) Wonderful songs with easy to play leads in Maybelle Carter’s distinctive lead style. The material in this class will be a unique blend of bluegrass, Carter Family songs and newly written songs in these traditions. All leads are written in tablature. 6PM: Songwriting:
Marriage Between Lyric and Melody (no guitar level) Open to songwriters of all levels including beginners. Our songwriting class is different every quarter inour constant search for the muse. Come to get started writing your own songs; come for ideas and guidance; come to share a song in progress or a finished song. come just to have a great time! 7PM: Americana Music & Its Roots #6
(multi-level class: level 2-3; level 3-4) (Offered at two different times).This exciting new multi-level class will feature contemporary music that incorporates elements of American roots music styles including country, roots-rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B and blues plus the origins of American roots music. We’ll learn songs from artists like Lucinda Williams, the Wailin’ Jennys, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, the Civil Wars, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, John Hiatt, Alison Krauss, Lyle Lovett, Tim O’Brien, Nickel Creek, Crooked Still, Emmylou Harris, and many more. We will also learn songs from some of the primary sources of American roots music. |
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Fall workshops start October 2, 3, 4 and 5 and meet for nine weekly sessions. They cover a variety of levels. All workshops meet one hour each week. We meet in groups of 15 - 20 in a relaxed atmosphere where there is opportunity for individual attention when needed. All the workshop materials (songsheets) are included. Recording devices (MP3, etc) are welcome. Please use batteries.
All Workshops - $180. TAKE TWO workshops during the same series, discount your second class by $10. Workshops are led by Carol McComb, a Bay area singer, songwriter, recording artist and guitarist with over 35 years experience teaching these classes. She has authored a best selling guitar book, written many articles for Acoustic Guitar magazine and taught at many music camps in the U.S. and Canada. She has toured extensively in duos and bands and also with Linda Ronstadt and Joan Baez. Workshops are held in Palo Alto at Gryphon Stringed Instruments, 211 Lambert Ave., Palo Alto (corner of Park & Lambert). Loaner Guitars To reserve a loaner guitar for the Starting to Play classes, call Gryphon Stringed Instruments at 650-493-2131. |
How to enroll
Either enroll and pay using Paypal/Credit Card, or print and fill out the Class Registration Form below and mail it, with your fee, to Carol McComb, Guitar Workshops, 211 Lambert Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306. Early enrollment is advised, as many of the workshops fill up early. This procedure registers you in the workshop(s) you choose. (You will NOT be notified unless your workshop is already full.) Just come to your workshop and check in. Please note that your workshop fees are non-refundable unless your workshop is already full or you cancel two full weeks before the start of the series. You may transfer your fee to another class during the first two weeks of the series. QUESTIONS? Contact Carol: Voice: 650-530-2526 email Carol For a loaner guitar: Contact Gryphon: (650) 493-2131, or www.gryphonstrings.com 
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