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An
introduction to Guitar Weekends
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The
most common question I get is,
"How good do I need to be?" My answer to that
is
"As good as you are now!".
What
happens and when
The residential guitar weekends here at
Beckfoot are held Throughout the year
from March to November.
They have been specially developed for hobby-players
like yourselves who don't get enough time at home to
practice and have trouble in finding other players to
work with. Mind you some that come on the weekends have or still do play in bands.
This
particular
course runs from Friday afternoon,
about 3pm
through to Sunday afternoon after lunch and you just
play, learn and relax through out the fully residential
course. Your time here is completely devoted to guitar
related activities namely home
recording on this weekend. We do cater for non residential
players as well.
On
the Friday, having arrived
sometime in the afternoon, you
will meet and get to know the
other members on the
course,
there will be a total of 4. We
will spend time discussing your current abilities and
what you want to get from the course. We will also have
a look at what the course is about with Jan giving you
an outline of what home recording is about and discuss
the project that you will be carrying out and doing a
bit of playing.
The
Saturday consists of workshops throughout the day (9.15
till 5.30) based around the specific techniques and
knowledge required for this course. With
breaks during the day for coffee, lunch and afternoon
tea. We then have personal time till dinner at 7pm after
which we continue with the projects
in the studio.
We have people of all ages and all abilities on our
weekends and I make it a point to put people at ease.
It's quite daunting to come away and join folks you
don't know, I know because I'm in the same position as
you just a bedroom player with a lot to learn. It is fun
to work with others and certainly improves your ability,
so do not be put off and give it a try. people
who come on the courses here are of a more mature age.
Although Guitar Weekends is generally
for guitar players we will accept other portable
instrument players on the Home Recording courses.
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