Manitoba Live Music Event

Guitar Workshop

Date
Saturday, Mar 18, 2017 at 12pm
Performers
Derrick McCandless
Location
Sam's Place Coffee
Address
140 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

About

Guitar 101 (12-2 pm) we will cover a few of those basic skills needed to play guitar. You will learn general maintenance on a guitar and what to look for to keep your guitar in fine shape.You will learn some basic chords and how to read Tab (a basic musical language). We will all learn a song together and perform it at the evening concert. Please bring a guitar, we will teach you how to to tune it if you don't know how. Please try not to be late, there is a lot to cover.

Guitar 102 (3-5 pm) a more advanced look at guitar, we will learn some basic fingerstyle techniques, theory and will learn a piece that will be played at the evening concert. We will learn looping and guitar synth techniques, so you can be a one man band or enhance your already established performance. Learn how to play lead to a song with movable scales. We will learn some alternative tunings and how you can quickly get back and forth from each tuning easily. Please have your guitar tuned to A 440 ( just regular tuning) for the workshop and try not to be late,there is a lot to cover.

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