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Get A Double Dose of Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady with a Special Acoustic Duo Workshop! (Level 2/3)
A special Fur Peace Ranch class for serious guitar and bass students. Jorma and Jack will combine their teaching efforts and give this rare guitar/bass class. Guitar and Bass classes will be held separately at times, other times the classes will join up for a unique duo workshop that brings together the music the classes have worked on.
If you want to learn the secrets of this dynamic duo's 50+ career....this is your chance.
Open to Guitar and Bass players. An equal number of each will be accepted. Limited to 8 students per class Don't miss this opportunity!
- 03/16/12 - 03/19/12
- Double Dose with Jorma and Jack Casady
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Bass Guitar Fundamentals
Level 2
This workshop introduces basic scales, left and right hand techniques and simple bass lines. Soon, students will learn the skill of "walking" the basses, playing shuffle feels, blues progressions, extended lines and octave substitutions with patient instruction from a master player. You will get hands -on experience, learning fundamentals and creating the rhythmic drive for country, blues and rock styles.
- 08/10/12 - 08/13/12
- Couples' Weekend
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- 11/09/12 - 11/12/12
- Bass Guitar Fundamentals
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Bass Guitar Proficiency
Level 3
This class is for those gaining proficiency at learning the neck and fingering positions, and who have a basic understanding of chord progressions and construction of the song form in general. In this workshop we emphasize right hand technique, with particular attention to accuracy of note placement, rhythm combinations, dexterity, and broadening of tone. With the fretboard hand, we will examine finger placement and smooth note execution
Bass Performance and Detailing
Level 4
This workshop is for proficient players and will include honing of right hand and left hand technique, but put emphasis on some of the real detail to a performance as if one were actually making a recording. We will address meter, note placement, arrangement ideas, thus growing and polishing a song as a whole piece to the finish. We will work in a recording studio environment.
AnchorAbout Jack Casady
Several generations of music fans are awed by the innovative bass playing of the legendary Jack Casady. A native of Washington D.C., John William Casady was playing lead guitar in that city’s clubs while in his early teens. In 1965, having switched to bass, he joined boyhood friend Jorma Kaukonen in San Francisco and became a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane. He played bass on sessions for Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland album of 1968; his work appears on the track “Voodoo Chile” . He played occasionally with the Grateful Dead, and Country Joe and the Fish. Jack and Jorma founded Hot Tuna in 1970, and have toured under that name, through a long list of band members and a wide range of styles, for more than 35 years. In June 2003 Jack released his first solo album, Dream Factor. He is highly regarded for his thoughtful and incisive teaching at the Fur Peace Ranch.
In 2007, Casady joined a new band, Moonalice, whose members are all bass players, including previous Jefferson Starship bassist and Hot Tuna keyboardist Pete Sears, along with G. E. Smith, Barry Sless, Ann McNamee, Roger McNamee, and Jimmy Sanchez.
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