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Highly recommended. This year was my first, I will be back and I will bring more people with me next year!
Adding Depth and Dimension to your Music
With his original Hawaiian love song Aloha Pumehana as a reference, Daniel will go over how to create interesting layers of arrangement using color tones, counterpoint, fingerstyle, and strumming. He’ll discuss:
- How to make simple chords even simpler
- How to sound better by adding open string color tones
- How to play and sing simultaneously (it’s not an easy thing to do)
- How to produce a beautiful fingerstyle tone
- The application of enharmonics and countermelodies to add depth to a song
Finger Pickin’ Good
During this hour Marc will lay the foundations of fingerpicking, giving an insight into beginners fingerpicking technique in pop, blues and folk styles. We will incorporate musical ideas, motifs and syncopation complete with a couple of songs to take away.
Triplets, Rolls, and Flares, OH MY!
Ready to get creative with your strumming? In this workshop, we'll break down how to create more rhythms with our strumming technique through roll and flare strums, which can be used to play complex rhythms like triplets and sixteenth notes with ease. Let's get jiggy!!!
