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Blues-Rock workshop

Rhythms, licks and Improvisation in Paris

Increasing one's musical vocabulary is the right way to increase one's creativity and to improve toward a wider musical world and more originality. The aim of this seminar/workshop is to offer the oppotunity to improvise and compose in the most usual musical language.

On guitar, it is relatively easy to perform groups of notes corresponding to pre-established positions, "licks". These licks allow realizing rather quickly codified interventions, shared by many guitarists in various styles such as blues, rock, and even jazz. The positions used to play most of these licks are built from pentatonic scales, enhanced or not with additional notes ("blue note", melodic notes, chromatisms, and so on...).

Before to be able to evolve towards a richer, more personal or experimental play, a guitarist has to control as well as possible these pre-established elements, and even use them in his own way later.

As a composer, knowledge of basic principles of blues and rock music allows of course to realize pieces in this style, but also to include these principles in other styles pieces.

So this seminar/workshop will focus on study and application of typically blues and rock kinds of play.

The whole group will work on different rhythmic and harmonic sequences on which wil be performed individual improvisations.

Level :

A basic chords knowledge and ability to play some notes with rhythm (scales or else) is recommended. Some knowledge in solfa can be useful but not essential. Oral work will be the rule.

Program :

- Intensive work (4 hours a day during 5 days) on pentatonic scales, modes of play, and improvisation from these elements

- Rhythmic and harmonic practicing of blues and rock chords (harmonic routines, power chords etc.)

- Some specific techniques like up and downstrokes technique, cross-picking.

- High spirit and motivation.

What it will not be about :

- Learning to play guitar

- Jamming.

- To be the fastest.

What is needed to apply :

- To alredy be able to play some guitar, it means knowing some chords, some pentatonic scales (eventually major and minor scales)
- Knowing sol-fa is not absolutely necessary but it could help a lot.
- To have a guitar.

When and Where :

Workshop will take place in Paris from 17 to 21 December 2007. The precise location will be known later.

How :

Collective meetings from monday to friday from 8 p.m. to midnight.

Guitars :

Any kind of guitar is welcome : electric and acoustic of course, also basses, Chapman Stick and so on...

Anyway, sonic level during the seminar will not go beyond acoustic guitar's one.

Guitars will be tuned in traditional tuning (from bass to treble : E-A-D-G-B-E) and/or in New Standard Tuning (C-G-D-A-E-G).

Fee :

The price of the workshop is 250 euros, housing and food are at the participants charge.

The amount of admissions being limited, thanks for informing of you participation as soon as possible.

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