See the descriptions below for the classes offered this fall.
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Class Descriptions
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Fingerstyle Guitar Fundamentals
Cost: $99 member, $109 non-member
Instructor: Malcolm McKinley
Time: Thursdays 6:00-7:00 pm beginning April 9th
Location: The downtown Meeker Music store, 624 N. Tejon St. Park in back of store off the alley in the Meeker lot (not the loading dock) and ring the back doorbell as the store closes at 6:00 and you will not be able to enter the front part of the store from the back classroom when class lets out.
Description: In this class we will be learning the fundamental aspects of playing guitar with your fingers. This covers a number of factors including hand/finger position, the mechanics of strokes, basic picking patterns, and some more esoteric things like the mind/muscle connection. We will then apply these fundamentals to a few simple songs.
Prerequisites: Ability to read tab and play first positions chords
What to Bring: Your own instrument, music stand, and tuner
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Name That CHord
Cost: $99 member, $109 non-member
Instructor: Bill Leake
Time: Thursdays 7:15-8:15 pm beginning April 9th
Location: The downtown Meeker Music store, 624 N. Tejon St. Park in back of store off the alley in the Meeker lot (not the loading dock) and wait for the 6:00 class to let out at 7:00 and enter as others are leaving before the door closes and locks. If arriving after 7:00 and the door is shut, please ring the doorbell - if you ring it before 7:00 you will disturb the previous class.
Description: Are you one of those people who show up at jams with your face buried in a 3-ring binder filled with printed music, only to find you are playing the same 3 chords over and over? Are you envious of that person who has no written music, has never heard the song, yet is playing along after hearing a verse just once? Then this course is for you.
This is largely a course in music theory, but applied to the process of training your ears to hear and identify common chord sequences so that you can “name that chord!” A lot of time will be spent on the chords of the major scale, then minor scales, and finally commonly used chords outside the framework of the scales. Other topics covered are music history, terminology, chord construction, circle-of-fifths, and intervals. I will be teaching using piano and guitar, but the material applies universally to all instruments and most songs in the western genres of folk, country, gospel, bluegrass, pop, blues, and rock. No need to bring an instrument.
Prerequisites: Some experience playing any musical instrument at any level, beginner to advanced
What to Bring: Pen and paper, but there will be a handout you may use to write your notes on
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