Welcome to Citra Land! all thangs Juicy!

Classes needing students! Mondays the Modes and Singing & Strumming. Tues Intro to Django. Wed 3-a. Thurs 2-B and 2-A. Sat The Gear Workshop...and Sunday...all of them!
All of these classes may NOT run if they don't find one or two more students!

http://www.swallowhillmusic.org/music_school/teachers/teacher239.html

Many times over my musical life...I have reached plateaus in my playing and felt like I would never be able to play anything NEW or different. Then suddenly, with a flash of understanding, the fretboard opens itself up to me in a big way and I learn a bunch of new vocabulary to express myself with.
That is really how I see it too...Vocabulary. Scales and Chords and Arpeggios are Vocabulary and Grammar and such....if you want to express yourself you need to know MUCH. Remember when you went home… Continue

Hello People! Swallow Hill Music Association is gearing up for another great session of musical learning! Come join us!

Theory and Techniques for Songwriting Mon 7PM
Easily learn the basics of music theory and how it directly relates to
songwriting. Examine scales, chords, extensions, rhythm, and melody. Start
with basic exercises and move into full on song composition. Learn tricks of
the trade. Techniques work for all generas and instruments.
8 Mondays, 3/2-4/20, 7-8pm


Blues Band Tues 7:00… Continue

Back in '85 I went to this guitar shop in the northern suburbs of denver. On the wall was MY guitar...I felt it pulling me towards it...I just couldn't take my damn eyes off of it.
Being a young cat...16yrs old...I really had no duckets for this guitar...I mean $310!!! c'mon!
I put it on Layaway! and went in and paid on it whenever I could...taking Polaroid pics of me and my baby to keep me going! In fact...MOM has a picture of me and Izabella on her fridge to this DAY!
I TRULY felt that either… Continue

..each person has the right to play what they want to play, but the responsibility to play something that makes everybody else sound good.

- Wynton Marsalis