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Guitar Week, July 26-August 1, 2009

7:30-8:30

Breakfast

9:00-10:15

Flat-picking Lead

Beg.
Slack Key Guitar

Bottleneck Blues & Beyond

Getting 'Groove' Into Your Arrangements

Percussive Techniques I

Int. Fingerstyle Guitar

Deep Bluegrass Guitar

Christmas in July

Pick-Style Jazz Chord-Melody

Song Accomp-animent Lab

10:15-10:45

Coffee/Tea Break

10:45-12:00

Harmony Basics for Fingerstyle Guitarists

Beg. Dobro- style Guitar

Swing: Rhythm’s Where It’s At

Int./Adv. Slack Key Guitar

Piedmont Masters

Swimming in Harmony: Rounds for Mandolin

DADGAD: Celtic, Blues & Beyond

Stealin' From Chet

Bluegrass Songbook

Demystify-ing Open Tunings

Intermed. Slide Guitar

Finger- style Blues

12:00-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:15

Guitar Maintenance & Repair, Luthiers' exhibit, Slow Jam, Free time

2:15-3:30

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar I

Int./Adv. Mandolin

Nothing’s Prettier Than a Waltz

Claw-hammer Banjo

Finger-style Jazz

The CandyRat Sound

Guitar for Beginners

Guitar Orchestra

Developing Solid Fingerstyle Technique

Writing Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar

Favorite Fingerpicking Arrangements Beg. Slide Guitar

3:45-5:00

Carter Family Guitar & Beyond

Swing: Improv-isation

Arranging Trad. Tunes for Solo Guitar

Slide Techniques for Blues Guitar

Trouble-shooting Guitar Arrangements

Hawaiian Songs & Slack Key Guitar

Percussive Techniques II

Finger-style Beatles

Int. Dobro- style Guitar

Celtic Finger-style Guitar II Snappy Instru-mentals Get Your Songs Out in Open G

5:00-6:30

Supper

7:30-?

Evening Events (concerts, dances, open mikes, jams, etc.)

 

Guitar Week has become one of the finest programs of its kind anywhere, staffed by some of the world’s best players and instructors. In 2008, we were awarded a Silver Medal in the Player’s Choice Awards by the readers of Acoustic Guitar magazine. We are proud that folks like what we do and want to keep coming back year after year.

For 2009, we’ve recruited some exciting new instructors, and several popular staff members from previous years will be returning. We will once again offer classes in flatpicking and fingerstyle acoustic guitar in all styles for all levels from Beginning to Advanced. We also have three dobro classes, two mandolin classes, a clawhammer banjo class and a class in song accompaniment by Pure Prairie League/Little Feat guitarist and vocalist Craig Fuller. Our sixteen world-class instructors, including four Grammy-winners, will offer classes in a wide variety of subjects, in styles ranging from Celtic to Blues and Christmas Guitar to Guitar Orchestra, and, of course, Patrick Landeza will return to teach Hawaiian Slack Key and host his now legendary Luau at the week’s end. One of the country’s top repairmen, Randy Hughes, will be available for consultations throughout the week. Ed Dodson will again lead slow jams after lunch each day, and our Luthier’s Exhibit will feature some amazing guitars from some of the country’s top builders. We will once again have a variety of Beginning to Intermediate level classes to accommodate those students who aren’t quite ready for the Intermediate to Advanced classes, so please read the descriptions carefully before you decide where you belong. We want everyone to get the most out of their week. For most of our classes it is recommended that students should play at an Intermediate level: students should have mastered beginning skills, be able to tune their instruments, keep time, play the principal scales cleanly, and know how to play a few tunes with confidence. Guitar Week runs concurrently with our Contemporary Folk Week, and students may take classes in either program. You can view classes here as well as staff bios. Or go directly to an individual instructor's bio by clicking on one of the names to the right.

 

2009 Guitar Week Staff

Adam Rafferty

Craig D'Andrea

Robin Bullock

Stephen Bennett

Pat Donohue

Mike Dowling

Doug Smith

Paul Asbell

Craig Fuller

Al Petteway

Patrick Landeza

Sally Van Meter

Orrin Star
Mary Flower

Scott Ainslie

Ed Dodson
Randy Hughes

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