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About the beginner guitar strumming workshop
About the beginner guitar strumming workshop
"A great way to learn and make new friends to practice with"
This is a 6 week course aimed at anyone who wants to learn how to strum a guitar properly. Beginners welcome from age 12 upwards. This group learning workshop provides a solid foundation in core guitar playing techniques and essential musicality, with focussed instruction for every student and the opportunity to make music in a fun learning environment. You will learn the mechanics of strumming a guitar along with the elements of musicality that make your strumming sound convincing and musical to others.
The venue is Colman Redland Centre, Croydon Rd. Reigate - free parking on site as usual.
Workshop student Guitars can be supplied by arrangement for a small fee, but if you want to buy your first guitar you might like to read this first. Guitar amplification is not provided on this workshop.
You can register for this course right away by filling in a short form on the registration page. alternatively call Vin Leone on 079 1234 2773 if you are not sure which course is best for you.
The skills that you will learn include:
The skills that you will learn include:
Fretted Notes
Fretted Notes
Learning to fret notes correctly paves the way for smooth chord playing. These techniques are essential for every guitarist who wants to improve quickly without struggling physically.
Common Chords
Common Chords
It's never easy to open up a songbook and play all the chords in front of you. So the chords you will learn on this course are graded for both absolute beginners and anyone who can already play a little. You'll learn essential chords that enable you to play thousands of songs later on.
Strumming Patterns
Strumming Patterns
You'll learn all the techniques that make up the musically percussive style of strumming made popular by Ed Sheeran and others.
Timing and Rhythm
Timing and Rhythm
Strumming a guitar without solid sense of timing and rhythm will never sound good. Gaining this skill is the real key to making anything you play sound great.
Musicality
Musicality
This is an essential skill that has to start at the beginning. You'll learn to add dynamics, textures and more to truly enhance everything you play. Even with very basic technical ability, anyone can sound good with the combined skills of musicality, timing and rhythm.
Rhythm Reading
Rhythm Reading
This is a lot more fun than it sounds and is a skill that helps you learn faster and become a better player no matter what level you're at.
About your teacher
About your teacher
Vin Leone - A seasoned professional guitarist who has spent the last 40 years studying, performing and teaching guitarists of all levels.
Week 1 - Rhythmn and rest-strokes
Week 1 - Rhythmn and rest-strokes
We get started right away with the mechanics of strumming and how it is supported by rhythm and musicality. there isn't anything too difficult at this stage it's really all about making sure you are comfortable with your instrument and familiar with the technical terms we'll use throughout this workshop.
Week 2 - The upstroke
Week 2 - The upstroke
Our second workshop focusses on the off-beat upstroke and how we combine it to the downstroke. More work on chords and rhythmn patterns too.
Week 3 - first strum
Week 3 - first strum
During this session you'll be practising what you've learned in the context of song rhythms and seeing how strumming patterns work.
Week 4 - Rhythm and percussion
Week 4 - Rhythm and percussion
This is the workshop where you learn to add percussive elements to your strumming and control the gaps in between the strums.
Week 5 - changing chords
Week 5 - changing chords
By the end of week 5 you should be able to strum a few chords - during this session you'll learn how to change between chords efficiently and musically. Your strumming should be sounding pretty good by now.
Week 6 - putting it all together
Week 6 - putting it all together
In this last session we practice performance strumming in the context of a song. The goal is to refine what we have learned and make a few mistakes too. By the end of play you should be able to play 4 chords and be able to follow musical rhythm patterns.
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