Howdy Folks! The New Class session is open for enrollment! I also am having Boot Camp Jan 9th!
Give the gift of Music for the Holiday!
The January Session of classes at Swallow Hill Music Association is online and ready for you to register! Perfect for a gift or to stay up with your New Years Resolution to play that guitar!
These are only the group classes that I am personally offering there...the amount of music being taught at SHMA is just amazing!
You can check my website to learn more about me.
http://citradelic.com TEXAS AND CHICAGO BLUES
Sponsored by Colorado Blues Society
From Texans Freddie King, Lightning Hopkins and Stevie Ray Vaughan to
Chicago's Buddy Guy, Willie Dixon and the whole Chess Records gang, learn
the blues in style. Study the tunes, chords progressions, licks, scales, and
turnarounds. Discover how to create the nuances for each style.
8 Wednesdays, 1/6-2/24, 8-8:55pm
*Early Bird Price: $120/$115 members
Regular Price: $125/$120 members
Materials Fee: $5
BLUES ENSEMBLE
Play in a blues band and cover the legends like Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray, and more. Learn multi-layered arrangements, solo, and figure
out how to find your part in a relaxed environment. All instruments welcome including vocalists and horns. Every session explores new music and arrangements.
8 Mondays, 1/4-2/22, 7-7:55pm
Early Bird Price: $120/$115 members
Regular Price: $125/$120 members
Materials Fee: $5
CAGED FRETBOARD
Simplify the guitar fretboard with the CAGED system. Visualize chord
patterns, scales, and how they link together on the entire neck using the
chords C, A, G, E, and D. Solo better, compliment other musicians,
accompany yourself and others, and play new arrangements of songs.
Demystify the theory of the fretboard in an accessible, visual way.
8 Tuesdays, 1/5-2/23, 7-7:55pm
*Early Bird Price: $120/$115 members
Regular Price: $125/$120 members
Materials Fee: $5
CAGED II: FREE FROM THE CAGE
For students who have taken the Logic or Caged system and want to go
Give the gift of Music for the Holiday!
deeper into it's actual application. How to take all these patterns and forms
and chords and scales and actually DO something with them!
8 Tuesdays, 1/5-2/23, 8-8:55pm
*Early Bird Price: $120/$115 members
Regular Price: $125/$120 members
Materials Fee: $5
THE MODES
From the Beatles to Miles Davis, from Zeppelin to Appalachian folk, the
modes are everywhere. Learn these 7 scales that all share the same notes
from the major scale. Open your understanding of harmony and break from
your normal patterns. Create bluesy to Spanish to Middle Eastern sounds
and learn interesting chords and progressions.
8 Mondays, 1/4-2/22, 8-8:55pm
*Early Bird Price: $120/$115 members
Regular Price: $125/$120 members
Materials Fee: $5
DJANGO GYPSY GUITAR
Find out to how to pull off Django’s famous phrases and tunes such as Minor
Swing, Dark Eyes and Sweet Georgia Brown. Your new hot licks will be
complemented by learning how to play that elusive right hand technique and
those great Gypsy swing chords. Please know barre chords.
8 Tuesdays, 1/5-2/23, 6-6:55pm
*Early Bird Price: $120/$115 members
Regular Price: $125/$120 members
Materials Fee: $5
COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES
Learn simple tools to write musical compositions on the guitar. Use basic,
accessible theory to create a sketch and then add personal touches to make
it your own. Every student will write a new composition each class! For guitar
players with a Guitar 2 skill level.
8 Thursdays, 1/7-2/25, 8-8:55pm
*Early Bird Price: $120/$115 members
Regular Price: $125/$120 members
Materials Fee: $5
GUITAR 2-A
Review the basic chords and strums while introducing hammer-ons, easy
scales, alternating bass, arpeggios, melody exercises, and tablature.
With Chris Sauthoff
8 Mondays, 1/4-2/22, 6-6:55pm
GUITAR 3-B
Focus on any number of skills including arranging, performing, theory, swing
chords, jamming skills, lead playing, or fingerstyle work. Take this class
multiple times. The repertoire changes every time.
With Chris Sauthoff
8 Thursdays, 1/7-2/25, 7-7:55pm
GUITAR 4
Now that you've completed Guitar 1-3 you are ready to start playing as an
ensemble and focus on singing and musicianship. Work on harmonies,
arrangements, solo breaks and performing together. Students can bring in
songs to be picked by the group to perform. Bass players and other
instruments welcome. Students can repeat this class endlessly; the material
always changes.
With Chris Sauthoff
8 Thursdays, 1/7-2/25, 6-6:55pm
Core Level Class prices~
Early Bird Price: $120/$115 members
Regular Price: $125/$120 members
Materials Fee: $6
Give the gift of Music for the Holiday!
Three Ways to Register
Register NOW!
http://www.swallowhillmusic.org/music_school/teachers/teacher239.html 1. Click the "Register Now" link above (if this class is offered multiple times, be sure to click the link by the correct date.)
2. Call us at (303) 777-1003 to register over the phone
3. Visit us in person at 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver
* Register at least 7 days before your class begins to qualify for Early Bird Pricing. Remember if
By clicking on the Songs button below you can hear some of my music, past and present.
The Shows button will tell you where I am playing next!


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Joe
Anyway, great to see you again and I feel ready for the next big push forward. ep
The workshop was helpful in showing me that I was on the right track. Also, I realize I need to be more patient when creating music. I get impatient and settle for less than a perfect product.
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