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Mapping the Fingerboard
- What if there were only One String?
- Points of Reference: where the note is, fretboard markers and the octave grid.
- Nut to Bridge, String to String: the linear aspects of fingering in melody and chord motion.
- Chord Components and their relationship to scales. Scale layouts both across and along the fingerboard.
- Why Standard Tuning produces only five primary chord shapes: E, A, D, G, & C. (What happened to B?)
- Using the Five Shapes and the Octave Grid as framework for understanding and cataloguing everything else: scales, melodies, riffs, bass runs, other chords...
- Tying this all together to play songs: As accompaniment to vocals, as material for solo arrangements.
Players of any level are welcome
Alternate Tunings
- A brief discussion of why Standard Tuning is the norm.
- Starting from Standard Tuning and developing alternate tunings from there.
- Some common and some not so common Alternate Tunings.
- Simple Fingerings to create or imply full chords, complex chord fingerings, a few scales & arpeggios.
- Using things you know in Standard Tuning to inform the learning process in an Alternate Tuning.
- Harmonic content: the “tuning’s voice”
- Notation Methods and keeping track of tunings using TAB, standard notation, and “chicken scratching”.
- Handouts: Tunings list; diagrams; picking patterns and other tricks, lists of songs, players and suggested books.
- A song or two to take with you.
Players of any level are welcome
Newport Guitar Festival 2008
These workshops this year will be mostly discussion, and a certain amount of playing if there is time. Each workshop is only an hour long and there is a lot to pack in. You won’t need guitars as there won’t be time for everyone to play the examples in class. You probably will want a notebook. If there is time I’ll stick around afterwards and answer questions. I am scheduled to perform at 10:30 on both Saturday and Sunday so I will have maybe 15 minutes.
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