Nashville Acoustic Camps

Flatpick Guitar - Workshops with Jake Workman
Presented by Nashville Acoustic Camps

Four Keys and What To Do With Them
Mondays - January 13, 20, 27, and February 3, 2025
7:30pm Central Time

You do not need to attend the workshops live. Everyone who registers gets the recordings and supplemental materials.
We will confirm your registration as soon as possible once you register - if your PayPal email address does not match the address you use for correspondence, please send a separate email to fiddlestar33@gmail.com to let us know.

Here's what Jake had to say about this upcoming series...

Hey everybody, I’m very much looking forward to working with you all again through Nashville Acoustic Camps! I had a great time last January and am looking forward to another round.

In each of these 4 weeks we will study a different OPEN key (G, C, D and A), and use standard fiddle tunes as a template for our discussions. We will touch on the melody of each tune and send you off with a solid version of each but the majority of time spent during the classes will be showing you how to make creative variations to the tunes and also how to play great rhythm over them. I believe that each key/position has its strengths and unique traits that you can tap into to make the song come alive the most in that key, for both the lead and rhythm parts. I’ll help you get inside of my head when I’m improvising and teach you some of my favorite licks in each of these keys. Handout pdfs will be given for both the basic songs and licks that I teach.

While you don’t need any prerequisite course etc. to take this class with me I’d encourage purchasing and going over last year’s class with Nashville Acoustic Camps as it would contain much about right hand technique, rhythm and chord variations, functional harmony and triads- all things that will be alluded to in this upcoming course. Here's a link to purchase the previous series:
https://www.nashvilleacousticcamps.com/Previous-Zoom-Workshops.php

This series will be targeted to an intermediate audience overall but this class will offer plenty of help to both the beginner and advanced players too. Looking forward to it!

Resophonic Guitar - Workshops with Ivan Rosenberg
Presented by Nashville Acoustic Camps

Solo Dobro Part Two
Wednesdays in February 2025
2/5, 12, 19, 26
7:30pm Central

You do not need to attend the workshops live. Everyone who registers gets the recordings and supplemental materials.
We will confirm your registration as soon as possible once you register - if your PayPal email address does not match the address you use for correspondence, please send a separate email to fiddlestar33@gmail.com to let us know.

Dobro Crash Course Parts 1, 2, 3 and Solo Dobro Part 1are available for purchase on the Previous Zoom Workshops Page.

Here's what Ivan had to say about this upcoming series...

Howdy Dobro pickin’ friends! My Solo Dobro Part 2 Zoom Workshop Series for Nashville Acoustic Camps will take place Wednesdays in February at 7:30 PM Central. We’ll build on the skills, techniques, and ideas from Solo Dobro Part 1 and start making ample use of minor chords built off the B string root with my arrangement of The Eagles’ “Desperado”—which is probably the most accessible song on my new album, Solo Dobro Pop Anthems & Yacht Rock. I also want to get you started with Travis picking (aka “alternating thumb” fingerpicking) on Dobro, which is a useful style for many folk and country blues songs. Compared to a regular guitar, where you can change chords and fret melody notes with your fingers, Travis picking on Dobro is more challenging due to the limitations of the bar, so it requires some creative problem solving to find certain chords, bass lines, and melody notes. We’ll discuss what kinds of melodies, chord progressions, and keys make for good Travis picking songs; go through a systematic exercise routine to learn Travis picking patterns and damping techniques; learn a Doc Watson-inspired “Deep River Blues”; and learn a folk/Americana song or two including “Hello in There” by John Prine. By request from prior workshop attendees, I’ll also spend some time giving folks more ideas for playing Dobro as a rhythm instrument to back oneself up while singing. A big pile of PDFs will be provided including Tab for exercises, Deep River Blues, and part of Desperado. As usual, I’ll do a bonus Q&A Session (date and time TBA).

My Solo Dobro Part 1 workshop series is a recommended prerequisite—solo Dobro is a complex topic which I’m teaching systematically, and I won’t have time to rehash all the basics. If you’d like to check out Solo Dobro Part 1 or any of my other previous Zoom workshops, they’re all available at https://www.nashvilleacousticcamps.com/Previous-Zoom-Workshops.php.

If you have any questions about the course content, please email me at ivanDrosenberg@gmail.com, and if you have any questions about registration or using Zoom, please contact our host at Nashville Acoustic Camps, Megan Lynch Chowning, at fiddlestar33@gmail.com.

Thanks, and I hope to see you in February!
Ivan

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