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The Songs of Christmas

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music @ 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY

A 4-week session for guitar, ukulele, mandolin and other strumming instruments.  We will play through basic chord arrangements of classic Christmas songs, and sing them together.  Students should be comfortable with the basic chords on their instruments (We'll encounter some other chords, but If you know E, A, D, G, C, F, Em, Am, and Dm you should be fine).  Songs will be played in easy guitar keys (G, C, D, etc.).  Important:...

(41) Beginner 15 and older
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Rock Guitar for Kids Level 1

Queens Guitar School

Students learn as they actually play along to some of their favorite rock songs starting on their very first day. If your child loves to play Guitar Hero or Rock Band, they will love how exciting and achievable learning to play a real guitar can be! This group guitar class for kids takes a revolutionary new approach to teaching absolute beginners. Instead of forcing kids to play tedious exercises and uninspiring songs like "Row Row Row Your...

(2) Beginner 9 - 12 years old
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Guitar II.5

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

For people who have learned the material presented in Guitar II, but want to practice it with more songs before moving on to Guitar III.

(41) Intermediate 15 and older
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Rock Guitar For Kids Level 1

Brooklyn Guitar School @ 81 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Students learn as they actually play along to some of their favorite rock songs starting on their very first day. If your child loves to play Guitar Hero or Rock Band, they will love how exciting and achievable learning to play a real guitar can be. This class takes a revolutionary new approach to teaching absolute beginners.  If your child has the desire to play guitar, they will be successful in this class, because we will nourish and...

(14) Beginner 8 - 11 years old
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Guitar III: Guitar for Intermediate Beginners (Trial)

New York City Guitar School

Learn and play mixed strums, riffs, arpeggios, bass runs and first barre chords in the style of artists like The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Nirvana, REM, India Arie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC, the Indigo Girls and more.  Prerequisite: This class is for students who have completed Guitar For Near Beginners or who have otherwise learned basic open chords and strumming patterns. 

(60) Intermediate 18 and older
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Group Guitar: 5-8 years old

MoonSoup

Develop your kid's guitar skills through basic strumming, chords, and basics for rock and folk rhythm guitar. This class enhances the child's guitar skills through teaching basic guitar lessons in an easy and fun atmosphere. Gentle and understanding way of teaching each child to handle and strum the guitar is given during each session in order to make the child show more of his musical tendencies.  Music plays a big role in developing...

All levels 5 - 8 years old
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Take the Lead—Play a Great Guitar Solo

Beacon Music Factory

Take this bizarre time we are living in and hone your guitar soloing skills so when the time comes to play with people again you are ready to show them what you’ve got.  In this group online class you’ll learn from masterful guitarist and teacher Mark Westin.  Learn techniques you can apply right away to increase your speed, to increase your ability to think on your feet, and to come up with nice tasteful phrasing that...

All levels 18 and older
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Happy Traum's Blues and Country Fingerpicking 101

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

Blues and Country Fingerpicking 101: Conquering the Challenge of the Steady Thumb. This session is open to any players, from early intermediates to experienced guitarists, who want to unravel the mysteries of the steady-bass thumb-and-finger styles used by blues and country pickers as well as by innumerable singer/songwriters. The necessary coordination of maintaining a rock-steady rhythmic bass while picking syncopated melody notes stymies even...

(41) All levels 15 and older
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Grant Gordy Guitar Workshop "Expand Your Improvisationa

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

In this workshop we will talk about developing methods for hearing, understanding, and being able to react to your musical environment, in real time. Being asked to assume the guitarists’ role in the fabled David Grisman Quintet, a spot previously held by such guitar notables as Tony Rice, Mark O’Connor, Frank Vignola and Mike Marshall, has firmly established Gordy as one of the preeminent young voices on guitar. Just ask his boss, David Grisman,...

(41) Beginner 15 and older
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John Schwab Back-up Guitar Workshop

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

John Schwab is teaching two workshops at an intermediate to advanced (not beginner!) level, with an emphasis on traditional backup styles. The first one will cover at least 4 different styles of backing up straightforward tunes in the key of G (or A). Learn approaches used by Hub Mahaffey, Luches Kessinger, Asa Martin, Ernest V. Stoneman, and others. This "G-tune toolbox" is loads of fun and really useful, too. Details about the second workshop coming...

(41) Intermediate 15 and older
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Quebec-style Back-Up Guitar & Foot Percussion

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

Quebec-style Back-Up Guitar & Foot Percussion (w/ André Marchand). In this two-hour workshop, you’ll pick up tricks in how to provide stylistically appropriate chords, rhythm, and voicing for Quebec dance tunes, in standard tuning. In addition to exploring basics of back-up style, André will also initiate participants into the mysteries of foot percussion, so please bring feet as well as guitars. Recording device recommended and welcome....

(41) Beginner 15 and older
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Beginning-Intermediate Country Guitar & Song

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

This class is for those who want to explore basic finger movements required to play guitar and then gradually work into simple Country melody with chords. You'll learn a country song (or two). Yvette is a Grammy nominated award winning singer songwriter musician who began playing Cajun music just a decade ago. She fronts her own country band and is a member of several greats including Balfa Toujours, Lafayette Lafayette Rhythm Devils and a past member...

(41) Beginner 15 and older
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Guitar Workshop with Stash Wyslouch

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

Stash’s guitar playing is simply like no other, and his approach to old time music is rich with new and old ideas. He’ll guide students through some very cool chord accompaniment, bass runs, and how to bring the tunes alive."  Pre-requisite: knowledge of simple chords and string names. Have comfort with referring to string names and respective frets.

(41) Intermediate 15 and older
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Intermediate Cajun Guitar & Song

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

This workshop mixes playing songs with learning technique, chords, and vocal style. Yvette is a Grammy nominated award winning singer songwriter musician who began playing Cajun music just a decade ago. She fronts her own country band and is a member of several greats including Balfa Toujours, Lafayette Lafayette Rhythm Devils and a past member of Bonsoir Catin, just to name a few. Her lamenting vocals in Cajun -French have an infusion of old school...

(41) Intermediate 15 and older
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Flatpicking Guitar Workshop

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music

Join Ross Martin (Matt Flinner Trio, Jeff Austin Band) for a workshop on developing skills for flatpicking acoustic guitar. Ross will cover right hand technique, bluegrass rhythm playing, improvisation, tone production and playing up the neck. Special attention will be given to playing fuller sounding melodies and leads. Handouts with exercises and tune arrangements will be provided.

(41) Intermediate 15 and older
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Guitar Arpeggios

Sacred Arts Research Foundation

Have you ever wondered what makes some guitar music sound so beautiful and harp-like? Aside from strumming and finger-picking, arpeggios are one of the most evocative and interesting ways of using the guitar to express chord changes and melodies. Essentially arpeggios break chords apart into their individual notes to create a sweeping sensation that rises and falls, resulting in a mountain or wave-like shape. In this class, you will learn how to...

(9) All levels 21 and older
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Barre Chord Bootcamp (For Guitar)

Sacred Arts Research Foundation

Most beginner guitar players memorize a dozen or so essential chords called ‘open position’ chords, so named because they make use of ‘open strings’, or strings that are sounded without a finger pressing down on any frets. Often times guitarists rely on capos in order to change keys, making use of the same basic chords on a different part of the neck. Barre chords are an important next step to mastering the guitar. These ‘moveable’...

(9) All levels 8 and older
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Flamenco Guitar Private Class

Flamenco Latino

Students familiarize with the methods guitarists in Spain use to build technique, rhythm and right hand/left hand coordination, and build good habits. You will learn flamenco from within the arte, not just as a solo guitar style outside the ambiente. To play flamenco authentically is extremely challenging, and since we are in a vacuum outside of the true environment, it may mean undoing bad habits, or totally changing your approach to how you learn....

(4) All levels 16 and older
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Wednesday Beginner Flamenco Guitar Technique Overview

Flamenco Latino @ Virtual Classroom

Learn the essential flamenco guitar techniques with Basilio Georges in four classes: rasqueados, pulgar (thumb), arpegio, and alzapua and picado. Exercises for placement, and simple passages utilizing the techniques focused on in each class. Must have nylon string classical or flamenco guitar. All our classes are online using Zoom. The student receives an Invitation to join the class with link/meeting ID and passcode after payment.

(4) Beginner 16 and older
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