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!

Clawhammer Banjo - Workshops with Adam Hurt
Presented by Nashville Acoustic Camps

MASTERING THE MECHANICS OF TONE PRODUCTION- ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
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 Adam had to say about this workshop...

Join me for an online version of my most popular banjo camp class offering, and a personal favorite topic of mine, “Mastering the Mechanics of Tone Production”! Together we will explore the complex and seldom-discussed relationship between our bodies and our instruments in ways that have a dramatic effect on the quality of tone produced when we play. The ideas presented in this workshop can be applied to any clawhammer banjo style and will help you achieve better and more consistent tone across your current and future repertoire. While the vast majority of our time will be spent on playing mechanics, we will also discuss alternatives to natural fingernails and touch on the matter of instrument setup as it relates to tone production.

This is a different sort of class from my previous Zoom workshops in that NO tunes will be taught; therefore, tablature will not be provided. We will move slowly through a variety of exercises and concepts, all clearly demonstrated by me, with all important left- and right-hand behavior thoroughly explained so that nothing is left to chance. Since video from the Zoom session will be made available to all participants, you can go back over anything that was difficult to assimilate when presented in real-time—again and again, without the pressure of having to fully comprehend the material by the time that the class session ends.

In order to get the most out of this workshop, I recommend that all participants have a command of the fundamentals of the clawhammer style, including drop-thumbing, as we will be optimizing basic technique but not learning it per se. I will teach with a steel-strung fretted banjo, and I strongly suggest that participants use the same banjo configuration. If you typically capo to access the higher keys, please have your capo available during the workshop. The single class session will last for roughly 75 minutes, and participants will be muted for the entire period, the better for everyone to feel comfortable playing along with me and trying new things.

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

Look for the next series in early 2025!

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.

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