Tuesday - Playing Waltzes & Stagecraft

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Waltzes -

- Waltz structures

    - "All the Good Times are Past and Gone"

    - "Drink Up and Go Home"

    - "Cora is Gone"

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Stagecraft -

- Making a setlist

- The audience

- Focus on the basics

- Don't add what you don't need

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- Section 4 Repertoire

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Fiddle Tunes

- "Bill Cheatum"

- "Big Mon"

- "Squirrel Hunters"

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Thursday - NO CLASS (Martin out)

Tuesday - 

Review of Rhythm basics

- Right Hand Movement

- Phrasing and accompaniment,

- Bass Lines

-Applying principles to different keys

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Thursday - [In Person]

 

Bring a song to play with the class!

Tuesday - 

Western Swing

   - The Chords

   - Playing Rhythm

   - "Ida Red"

   - "Take Me Back to Tulsa"

   - "Hey Good Lookin'"

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Moving the chords

   - Closed positions

   - Alternate Voicings

   - "Along the Navajo Trail"

   - "Along the Navajo Trail" - Complex Chords

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Thursday - [In Person]

Bring the song you are playing for the progressions concert!

Tuesday -  Booking Gigs & The DIY Music Business

   - Where to start

   - Discipline

   - Resources

   - What's going on in the music business?

   - What does success mean?

   - Band management

   - The road

   - Necessary skills

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Thursday - Final Class [In Person at Swallow Hill Music]