2012 Workshop Schedule
MARCH 16 – 19, 2012:
Jorma Kaukonen
Double Dose
Level 2/3
Full
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!
MARCH 30 – APR. 2 , 2012
APRIL 13 - 16 , 2012
Happy Traum
Blues and Country Fingerpicking 101: Conquering the Challenge of the Steady Thumb
Level 1/2
APRIL 27 – 30, 2012
MAY 11 – 14, 2012: The Entrance Ramp: BASIC FINGERSTYLE GUITAR Level 1/2: Beginner/Intermediate
Jorma Kaukonen
David Wolff
Marjorie Thompson
The Entrance Ramp: BASIC FINGERSTYLE GUITAR Level 1/2: Beginner/Intermediate
This workshop will provide a solid introduction to fingerpicking guitar, including development of that reliable thumb so essential to mastering this style. This pianistic style of playing often characterizes the music of Master Instructor Jorma Kaukonen, and is typical also of the great country blues artists such as Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Mississippi John Hurt and other seminal musicians that have deeply influenced 20th century guitar styles.
We will emphasize the thumb’s job in holding down the alternating and often syncopated bass line, against a picked melody. We’ll venture out of first position, and work with chord shapes up the neck, as well as with related licks that add color and personality to songs. And it is, after all, about the songs!
This special workshop will have a triple threat of instructors, so that participants will receive individually tailored attention. Along with the Captain, singer/songwriter/guitarist Marjorie Thompson will provide expert instruction focused on fretboard navigation and songcrafting, and BreakDownWay maven David Wolff will guide students in the careful rendering of some country blues favorites exemplary of this genre.
It will be assumed that students have familiarity with first position “cowboy” chords, and may even have substantial experience as lead or rhythm guitarists, but are relatively new to the fingerstyle approach to picking.
JUNE 1 – 4, 2012
JUNE 15 – 18 2012
AUGUST 10 – 13, 2012: Couples' Weekend
AUGUST 24 – 27, 2012
Woody Mann
Country Blues & Ragtime Improvisation; The Guitar of Blind Blake and Big Bill Broonzy
level 3
SEPTEMBER 7 – 10, 2012: Pick and Putt
SEPTEMBER 28 – OCT. 1, 2012
OCTOBER 12 – 15, 2012
Chris Hillman
Hillman’s Mad Mountain Rangers: Adventures in Mandolin, Songwriting and Vocal Techniques
Level 2/3
OCTOBER 26 – 29, 2012: Tribute to the Rev. Weekend
NOVEMBER 9 – 12, 2012
