This day course is about jamming together – properly! Yes – lots of jamming but with professional guidance and suggestions for how to organise the session, leas songs, arrange parts for the group, making it tight and sound really interesting and make sure everyone is involved at the level they can play.
Jam nights can be loud and chaotic but generally good fun. Let’s retain the fun element but make it sound great. Learn how to play together in time, allow all players to be heard, count in with confidence, assign different parts, etc. and making a glorious sound that both lifts the spirit and gives you a tool bag to apply to Jams, Open Mic Nights or general get-togethers.
This course will be a day of:
The objectives are:
Bring along your own songs and we’ll pick and mix with the song list we have lined up.
This course is aimed at the Late Beginner to Intermediate levels of acoustic, electric guitarists and bass players.
The tutor will also offer advice about singing as well and guide bass players. If we have trombones, horns, harmonicas, etc. then these guys will be left to their own devices and we’ll rely on them being able to keep up!
The course isn’t really for raw beginners; that said, most players will pick up some real nuggets from this day.
We’d like to get the group’s input on songs and lead sheets but we’ll have a bunch of classic song lead sheets to hand out or use via a projector. You’ll get these PDFs as we go through the day.
BTW, we recently ran a Jam Essential online course – it covered all the basics you should know or have been exposed to; email for detail if interested.
If anyone wants some video snippets taken during the day we’ll make these available to the group afterwards.
Unlike our online sessions these Day-Only courses can only accommodate limited group numbers – book early to avoid disappointment.
There’s fantastic B&B and dinners at the venue (other places are available in the area as well !). Get in touch directly with the venue once you’ve received the Joining Instructions.