~ Fiddle Workshops with Megan Lynch Chowning & Maddie Denton ~
~ Flatpick Guitar Workshops with Jake Workman ~
~ Clawhammer Workshops with Adam Hurt ~
~ Dobro and Beginner Clawhammer Workshops with Ivan Rosenberg ~
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To purchase previous blocks of workshops (including from Jake Workman, Ivan Rosenberg, Adam Schlenker, and Tristan Scroggins), click here.
The Fiddle Capo PART TWO - Zoom Workshop with Megan Lynch Chowning and Maddie Denton
Presented by Nashville Acoustic Camps
Tuesday, March 24th at 7:30pm Central
$35
You do not need to attend the workshop live. Everyone who registers gets the recording and any 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.
Join 7 time National Fiddle Champion Megan Lynch Chowning and IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year Maddie Denton for the follow up online workshop where you can learn even more about the Fiddle Capo. This is the technique all the pros use! Megan invented a concept called the Fiddle Capo and has taught it to thousands of fiddlers all over the world, including Maddie Denton. A few months ago, they presented PART ONE of the Fiddle Capo information and in March 2026, you're getting PART TWO. Megan will show you how it works (and it really, really works) and Maddie will show you what to do with it once you've got it. The workshop itself will last around an hour and then Maddie and Megan will take some questions for 15-20 minutes after the main workshop. All students will be muted during the workshop so you can try everything in real time without feeling self conscious or getting overwhelmed with too many fiddles playing at once. If you've ever felt overwhelmed in a bluegrass jam the moment someone kicks off a song in the key of B, this workshop is for YOU.
If you did not watch PART ONE of the Fiddle Capo workshop, we highly recommend getting that workshop first. You can purchase that on our previous workshops page.
Flatpick Guitar - Workshops with Jake Workman
Presented by Nashville Acoustic Camps
Mondays in April at 7:30pm Central
4/6, 13, 20, 27
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.
Hey all, I'm very excited for my upcoming Nashville Acoustic Camps online class. Much of what I plan to discuss throughout the month has come about by popular request from you guys and my followers. The things you seem to need the most! And I very much agree with the ideas I’ve been given. The major focus throughout the month will be on right and left hand technique and using it to attain better tone, speed, volume and clarity. I make sure that my classes can apply to players of any level. We’ll always cover the basic starting points of any topic and take them up from there. I have no doubt that there will be plenty for everyone here.
I’ll first go over all the nitty gritty details of good right hand technique and show how to apply it to both rhythm and picking motions. With that I want to specifically target how to have control over your volume and also how to transition better between picking and strumming. Within the bluegrass style alternate picking realm, I believe there are three main ways of pick attack and I plan to cover those in detail. A good understanding of your right hand is the first step to improving it.
Next I’ll talk about left hand technique and the syncing of our two hands. I’m going to work with you on developing speed through creating “speed bursts” and show you exercises that have helped me to get where I’m at. We’ll also use some lick and tune examples for speed exercises. I’ll make the point very clear that speed is not important without quality tone and clarity first, but luckily the technique we’ll discuss helps with all these attributes.
I’ll then take us up the neck with some of these same concepts. I’ll go over how I map the fretboard a bit and show you some of my favorite positions that I get a lot of mileage out of. I know that many of you can struggle to break out of pentatonic boxes, and I would like to shed some light on that topic in a couple ways: relating the boxes to triads, and showing you how to tweak these boxes to make new fresh sounds with different combinations of notes. We’ll for now call them “custom pentatonics”. These will make more great templates for our speed bursts.
Lastly, I’d like to cover a few fun and useful tricks that can really raise your level from sounding beginner/intermediate to more advanced and seasoned. The targets here will be left hand ornaments/slurs, learning how to play triplets (both slurred and picked) and right hand sweeping. Subtle things that I use so much and can be thrown in easily once you know what to do. We’ll apply them to tunes.
I’m always organic in my teaching and open to requests and other questions outside things I’ve listed here. We’ll have time for that in each class, you will be able to submit your thoughts in the Zoom chat.
See you all soon!
Jake
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