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Saturday 25th September

Guitar workshops 12 - 3pm, €30 each

Performance 8.30pm

Tickets €15.

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Workshops

 

12:00pm Session 1: Chops, Licks, Knuckles, & Stuff to Wake Up Your Music

  • About hand positions, fingerstyle technique, right and left hand attack
  • About the effective use of dynamics
  • How to get the most out of each note
  • How, when, and why you may wish to use a capo
  • Techniques to simplify and actually have fun with a metronome
  • How to set the click
  • How to use the metronome to develop speed
  • How to play together while applying picking patterns

1:00pm Session 2: Fingerpicking ‘Round the Campfire (You Are My Sunshine)

  • Applying patterns to familiar songs
  • Advantage of 3 finger positions
  • Boom chick strumming
  • Vibrato
  • Palm mutes, snap, and rattle
  • Advanced pattern picking
  • Ensemble playing
  • Picking around the campfire
2:00pm Session 3: Exploration of open D Tuning
  • Your first tune: Echoing Gilewitz
  • Dynamics, glissandos, slides, grace notes
  • Phrasing, harmonics
  • The use of silence in music