Bob Brozman Guitar Workshop - Registration Now Open!
Two sessions to choose from:
• Saturday, August 28, 2010
• Sunday, August 29, 2010 (*)
(*) - Special Advanced Players Workshop Day; see below for more info.
12:00-6:00 PM, plus optional 1˝-hour advanced session 6:30-8:00 PM
Ben Lomond, CA (about 1˝ hour south of San Francisco)
Spend an unforgettable day at our spacious, new facility, nestled in the lush Santa Cruz Mountains, south of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. To expand your playing, we’ll focus on blues, open tunings, slide, and rhythm. By the end, you will have a huge toolbox of improvising ideas. Each workshop consists of two 2˝-hour intensive learning courses, followed by a question/answer session. We'll break to enjoy hearty snacks and refreshments in the afternoon. Then we will have an extra 90-minute advanced session, for those who want more challenge in their workshop day. (The main workshop is structured so that both intermediate and advanced players will find plenty to work with and not get frustrated).
BLUES, OPEN TUNINGS, RHYTHM, SLIDE, AND IMPROVISATION!
We’ll explore the basic principles and techniques for understanding how blues music works, including the musical freedom gained by improvising. We will focus on rhythm, open tunings, and blues music as a vehicle for strengthening all your musical skills and growing your improvisation abilities. This will be a very hands-on workshop with lots of playing, giving you the chance to apply many of the ideas that are presented.
Open to easy-intermediate and intermediate guitarists, or experienced guitarists who are new to the blues. It’s not necessary to be an “advanced” guitarist to benefit from this workshop; however, these workshops are not recommended for those who have never played guitar before. If you can keep time and change chords in time, you’ll find lots of quickly-accessible ideas which will inform and inspire your playing.
Discover ways to free yourself from conventional thinking and get more enjoyment out of what you already know!
RHYTHM:
We tune up your sense of rhythm, and focus on what makes a good groove. We’ll get it from your head to your fingers with fun and interesting hands-on work. We’ll break down all the rhythms you need for blues, swing, and virtually every other type of groove, using simple yet powerful ideas and right hand riffs.
OPEN TUNINGS:
We will work on open G and open D tunings, using classic blues licks as an entry point to understanding how this music operates so easily. Using the sounds and ideas of the great bluesmen like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, and Skip James, we’ll work to gain a real understanding of how these tunings work. We’ll discover the simple yet profound ideas about open tunings that musicians from Mississippi to Hawaii to Africa all employ in building their repertoires.
BOTTLENECK SLIDE:
You’ll learn the techniques of handling a bottleneck slide to get great tone, expressive sounds, and the essential classic slide licks and techniques, which make this music so compelling.
RIGHT HAND TECHNIQUES:
We’ll also focus on right-hand techniques, to get started with various finger-picking and thumb styles. Learn to increase your expression in music through right-hand awareness and control, and discover what makes a good groove and why.
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER:
Altogether, we’ll be assembling a solid toolbox full of ideas that can be cut and pasted to create solos, riffs, and whole compositions. We’ll apply many new rhythmic and syncopation ideas to self-accompaniment using fingerstyle, strumming, and percussive techniques.
The result will put more life and variety into the SOUND of your playing. For slide guitarists searching for new ideas, we will cover many so-called advanced (but actually easy) techniques for maximizing variety of tone and expression.
There will be lots of playing in this session, and we’ll learn how to start soloing by passing solos around the group while examining various approaches to creating solos. Very hands-on, so bring your guitar & slide, and be ready to play!
ADVANCED SESSIONS:
More advanced players have two options to get the most out of this series of Bob's seminars:
• They can opt to add an extra 1˝-hour session to the end of the 6-hour workshop on 8/28.
• They can also choose to come on Sunday, August 29 for a Special Advanced Players Day. This full-day seminar is open to attendees of the 8/28 session and to all advanced guitarists.
At all of the Advanced sessions, Bob will teach deeper techniques and ideas about slide, rhythm, soloing, and syncopation on the guitar. He'll also cover a wider range of musical styles using open and standard tunings. These sessions will also be an opportunity to have Bob troubleshoot your playing techniques.
Email for more information, or to express your interest in these special Advanced sessions.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION:
Email to register or call Haley S. Robertson at 831-336-0304.
For Saturday, August 28:
Registration fee is $150 per person for 6-hour class; $50 extra to add the advanced session to the end of each 6-hour class. Email to register.
For the special Advanced Players Workshop Day on Sunday, August 29:
Registration fee is $150 per person for 6-hour advanced class, 12:00-6:00 PM.
Email or call Haley at 831-336-0304.
A non-refundable deposit of $50 is required to guarantee your reservation (or, payment in full is OK, too!).
Payment can be sent by personal check or money order (Paypal upon request) to:
Bob Brozman, P.O. Box 1181, Ben Lomond, CA 95005
Upon receipt of the deposit or registration fee, we'll send you complete information about location, arrival, parking, etc.
Workshop size is limited to 15 people per class.
Book early to avoid disappointment!
Link to:
Bob Brozman Seminars Main Page
Bob Brozman Ukulele Workshops, June 5 & 6
Bob's Instructional Videos & DVDs, including tablature
Bob's Tips for Guitarists, including Guitar Lessons
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