GUITAR HUB: DROP-IN WORKSHOP
Updated: Mar 18, 2023
Join us: It's never too late or early to learn to play the guitar.
guitar jam, guitar group lesson, jam pop songs, all levels, electric or acoustic
Every Saturday Morning (Except during half-term) from 10:30am - 11:30am at Crawley Museum
Week 4: Sat 18th March
We started a warmup using Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits)
|: D / / / | C / Bb / | A / / / | A / / / :|
Using The 'A' Shape bar Chord on 5th String & 'E' Shape bar on 6th String
We slowed down the tempo and played this pattern round & round until everyone got the hang of it.
Beginners used the bass notes on the 6th string:
D=10th fret, C=8 10th fret, Bb=6th fret, A=5th fret.
Then we introduced the other Verse Chords:
| F / / / | F / / / | C / / / | C / / / | Bb / / / | Bb / / / | Dm / / / | Bb / / / | C / / / | C / / / |
After this we went back to Wicked Game & Creep...
Week 3: Sat 11th March
We continued with our 2 songs, started with warm up on Wicked Game and really focussed on timing & counting bars. Whenever we swayed off the metronome - we started again. With a pause to count in mentally, then to verbally count in 1,2,3,4.
Week 2: Sat 4th March
We looked at different chord shapes, using a capo & most importantly... timing! I made suggestions to each musician, correcting some bad habits, proposing alternative chord positions & learning to listen for the 1st beat (which is accented on most modern metronomes).
We used a mobile metronome app & amplified it to an audible level, worked out a basic strumming pattern, counting-in and tried to keep time. The song we're working on is Wicked Game by Chris Isaak:
|:Bm /// |A /// | E/// | E/// :| repeat till end
The sheet music is available from our new website www.guitarhub.club
Do check it out & join us - Every Saturday Morning (Except during half-term) from 10:30am - 11:30am at Crawley Museum
Guitar Hub - 5-week course or drop-in workshop (Non-Profit)
Week 1 - Sat 25th Feb
I wrote the chords progression & chord shapes on the board with a permanent marker that was there! Oops... Luckily one of our attendees had some spray to clean if off!
Saturday 25th February 10:30 - 11:40 | Guitar Hub
Saturday 4th March 10:30 - 11:40 | Guitar Hub
Saturday 11th March 10:30 - 11:40 | Guitar Hub
Saturday 18th March 10:30 - 11:40 | Guitar Hub
Saturday 25th March 10:30 - 11:40 | Guitar Hub
Highlights of one of our sessions here - |: Bm / / / | A / / / | E/ / / | E / / / :| [repeat until end]
Crawley Museum
The Tree
103 High Street
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 1DD
Getting back To Your Passion
It's great to see Keith enjoying and refreshing his finger-memory and playing shapes all over the guitar. I'm reaching out to all of you guitarist who left it behind for work, love or family... coming back to it with a refreshing zest and enthusiasm. When you start to learn an instrument, you start a life-long relationship with music.
It's never too late or too early to start. So dig out that guitar from the attic & get down to our workshops... Alternatively, we are open for donations of instruments too! We'll find a good home for it or auction it to raise funds for more workshops & events to spotlight local talent.
Keith holding a G Bar Chord
Recently Started Playing
Music is social, a great discipline & good for focusing the mind for concentration.
The most important thing for me is to help learners express their passion for music. One thing is guaranteed - Music is a friend for life!
Brian started playing guitar during lockdown. He's been playing rhythm & singing. Now he's having a go at lead. Working that minor pentatonic blues in B.
22 years but never lost the bug
I play a fender myself. It was great to see 3 of them at the workshop!
Pat playing clean and open chords as well as bar chords.
Absolute Beginners & Percussionists welcome
Tim is playing a classical jumbo guitar that was gifted to me by my good friend and music journalist Huw Roberts ( a wealth of inside knowledge to the music industry & bands histories). Jane joined us with her Darbuka - traditionally played to accompany bellydance & much more entertaining than my metronome or looper pedal.
Vocalist: Learning To Strum Guitar always makes you self-reliant
DJ Drew & Soul-Singer Andrew enjoying the coffee & biscuits? Playing some funky bass lines
to give more depth to the sound.
Help us restore donated guitars to give to our students that want to give it a try!
Join us at the Guitar Hub (Crawley Museum) - Drop-in workshop 10:30 - 11:30am
All levels welcome!
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