Clawhammer Banjo - Workshops with Adam Hurt
Presented by Nashville Acoustic Camps

MASTERING THE MECHANICS OF TONE PRODUCTION- ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
7:30pm Central Time

You do not need to attend the workshops live. Everyone who registers gets the recordings and supplemental materials.
We will confirm your registration as soon as possible once you register - if your PayPal email address does not match the address you use for correspondence, please send a separate email to fiddlestar33@gmail.com to let us know.

Here's what Adam had to say about this workshop...

Join me for an online version of my most popular banjo camp class offering, and a personal favorite topic of mine, “Mastering the Mechanics of Tone Production”! Together we will explore the complex and seldom-discussed relationship between our bodies and our instruments in ways that have a dramatic effect on the quality of tone produced when we play. The ideas presented in this workshop can be applied to any clawhammer banjo style and will help you achieve better and more consistent tone across your current and future repertoire. While the vast majority of our time will be spent on playing mechanics, we will also discuss alternatives to natural fingernails and touch on the matter of instrument setup as it relates to tone production.

This is a different sort of class from my previous Zoom workshops in that NO tunes will be taught; therefore, tablature will not be provided. We will move slowly through a variety of exercises and concepts, all clearly demonstrated by me, with all important left- and right-hand behavior thoroughly explained so that nothing is left to chance. Since video from the Zoom session will be made available to all participants, you can go back over anything that was difficult to assimilate when presented in real-time—again and again, without the pressure of having to fully comprehend the material by the time that the class session ends.

In order to get the most out of this workshop, I recommend that all participants have a command of the fundamentals of the clawhammer style, including drop-thumbing, as we will be optimizing basic technique but not learning it per se. I will teach with a steel-strung fretted banjo, and I strongly suggest that participants use the same banjo configuration. If you typically capo to access the higher keys, please have your capo available during the workshop. The single class session will last for roughly 75 minutes, and participants will be muted for the entire period, the better for everyone to feel comfortable playing along with me and trying new things.

Resophonic Guitar - Workshops with Ivan Rosenberg
Presented by Nashville Acoustic Camps

Solo Dobro Workshops
Wednesdays at 7:30pm Central this fall: Oct 30, Nov 6, 13, 20
7:30pm Central Time

You do not need to attend the workshops live. Everyone who registers gets the recordings and supplemental materials.
We will confirm your registration as soon as possible once you register - if your PayPal email address does not match the address you use for correspondence, please send a separate email to fiddlestar33@gmail.com to let us know.

Dobro Crash Course Parts 1, 2, 3 are available for purchase on the Previous Zoom Workshops Page.

Here's what Ivan had to say about this upcoming series...

Solo Dobro Part 1—Wednesdays at 7:30pm Central this fall: Oct 30, Nov 6, 13, 20

I’m looking forward to teaching one of my favorite subjects: playing solo (unaccompanied) Dobro! It’s challenging to play chords, rhythm, and melody in such a
way that a song holds together with no other accompaniment, and a lot of picking-hand dexterity is required. I’ll start you off the first week with a slew of exercises to train your picking hand to play a number of arpeggios and rolls, scales and other melodic phrases with bass drone notes, and some right-hand grips for certain sets of strings to catch various chords and double-stops. We’ll also go deeper into using minor chords built off a root on the B strings, a concept which is very helpful and liberating when playing unaccompanied. I’ll have a big pile of handouts for Week 1 skill-building exercises. If you already took my “Solo Dobro Primer Class,” this will be great review, and I’ll also have some new exercises for you to work on.

For weeks 2 through 4, we’ll put these ideas to work on a few songs. I’m going to start you off with my tune “Here This Morning” (my most popular and often-covered tune by far) and then teach a harmony version of that tune as well. Next, we’ll work on an approximate rendition of Rob Ickes’s “How Great Thou Art” to show you some of Rob’s strategies for solo Dobro arranging from earlier in his career. I’ll also teach my version of “Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie” as a means of showing you some of my go-to strategies for playing solo Dobro while singing.

Recordings of all classes along with handouts and charts will be provided to everyone who signs up, so there’s no need to attend classes live (though it’s more fun to attend live). Attendees will be muted during class, meaning they can play along the whole time, and I’ll periodically look at the chat box to see if there are any questions. I’ll also do a bonus Q&A session sometime after the workshop series concludes, and at that time everyone can unmute and ask any questions they may have. Classes will be geared towards intermediate and advanced players, but everyone, from beginners to pros, is welcome, and since the classes are recorded, folks can work at their own pace. I should mention that everything you learn can be applied to non-solo situations: I often use the same techniques when playing in duos and many of these ideas in a band setting. This workshop series will vastly expand your understanding of using open strings, chords/double-stops, and bass notes to enhance your playing.

Feel free to email me at ivanDrosenberg@gmail.com if you have any questions about the course content, and you can contact our Nashville Acoustic Camps host, Megan Lynch Chowning, at fiddlestar33@gmail.com for questions about registration or technical questions about using Zoom.

Hope to see you there!
Ivan

Clawhammer Banjo - Workshops with Adam Hurt
Next workshops will be in the fall of 2024. 
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You do not need to attend the workshops live. Everyone who registers gets the recordings and supplemental materials.
We will confirm your registration as soon as possible once you register - if your PayPal email address does not match the address you use for correspondence, please send a separate email to fiddlestar33@gmail.com to let us know.

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