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Flatpicking Guitar
Workshops & Concerts
Saturday, October 5th, 2013 Pegram, TN Guitar Workshop: Maybelle Carter Style with a Flatpick Taught by Tim May Musical Heritage Center of East Tennessee 456 Hwy 70 Pegram, TN 37143 Time: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm Cost: $50
Thursday, 10 October 2013 Wichita Falls, TX Dan Miller, Brad Davis and Tim May Concert Midwestern State University Museum of Art 2 Eureca Circle Wichita Falls, TX Cost: FREE Time: 7 pm
Friday, 11 October 2013 Lindale, TX Brad Davis, Tim May and Dan Miller Concert Beulah Land Ranch 22933 CR 422 Lindale, TX 75771 Cost: $15 Time: 7:30 pm
Friday, 18 October 2013 Navasota, TX Dan Miller, Brad Davis and Tim May Workshop & Concert Navasota River Halls 2692 SH 105 W Navasota, TX 77868 Workshop Topic: An Approach to Improvisation Workshop Time: 3 to 5 pm Workshop Cost: $40 Concert Time: 7:00 Concert Cost: $15 ($5 discount if you take the workshop)
Saturday, 19 October 2013 Austin, TX Dan Miller, Brad Davis and Tim May Workshop & Concert Workshop Topic: Rhythm, Timing, and Groove Workshop Hosted by Dave Lovos 8708 South View Road Austin, TX Workshop Time: 2:00 pm Workshop Cost: $40 Concert Time: 7:00 pm Concert Cost: $15 ($5 discount if you take the workshop)
Sunday, 20 October 2013 Boerne, TX Dan Miller, Brad Davis and Tim May Workshop & Concert Hearts' Home Acoustics 109 Oak Park Dr Boerne, TX 78006 Workshop Topic: Rhythm, Timing, and Groove Workshop Workshop Time: 3 to 4:30 pm Workshop Cost: $40 Concert Time: 7:00 Concert Cost: $15 ($5 discount if you take the workshop) Call 800-413-8296 to register
Saturday, January 25th, 2014 Long Beach, CA Guitar and Mandolin Workshop: Rhythm, Timing, and Groove Taught by Brad Davis, Tim May, and Dan Miller The Queen Mary Hotel 1126 Queens Highway Long Beach, CA 90802 1126 Queens Highway • Long Beach, CA 90802 1126 Queens Highway • Long Beach, CA 90802 Cost: $40 Time: TBA
Saturday, January 25th, 2014 Long Beach, CA Brad Davis, Tim May, and Dan Miller in Concert The Queen Mary Hotel 1126 Queens Highway Long Beach, CA 90802 Time: TBA
Sunday, January 26th, 2014 Long Beach, CA Guitar and Mandolin Workshop: Improvisation Taught by Brad Davis, Tim May, and Dan Miller The Queen Mary Hotel 1126 Queens Highway Long Beach, CA 90802 Cost: $40 Time: TBA
Monday, January 27th through Friday, January 31st 2014 Long Beach to Mexico Cruise Cruise2Jam Bluegrass Cruise to Mexico Guitar Classes Everyday with Dan Miller Unlimited Jamming About the Workshops:
An Approach to Improvisation on Guitar and Mandolin
Tim May and Dan Miller (co-authors of the popular eight volume
Flatpicking Essentials Guitar Course and the instructional DVD "An
Approach to Improvisation"), will conduct a hands-on, all-level Guitar
and Mandolin Improvisation Workshop.
The idea of learning how to improvise can be confusing and
overwhelming. Tim May and Dan Miller's workshop will prove to you that
it is much easier to improvise than you think, and now is the time to
start learning, even if you are a beginner to guitar or mandolin! In
the workshop Tim and Dan teach an approach to improvisation that will
put you on the road to improvising a solo on a song in a very short
amount of time. The method that they teach and the skills that you will
learn in this workshop will help really demystify improvisation. In
fact, no matter what your current ability level, you will be improvising
by the end of this workshop, even on a song that you have never heard
before! If you are already an accomplished improvisational player this
workshop can help take your abilities to the next level. If you are new
to improvisation, this workshop will give you confidence in taking that
big step to becoming an improvisational player. Each student will be
given several opportunities to play for, and get direct feedback from,
the instructors. Speed, Accuracy, and Tone Workshop
Dan Miller and Tim May will conduct a two-hour all-level flatpicking
guitar workshop that will focus on how to use efficient left and right
hand technique and mechanics to increase speed, improve note clarity and
fluidity, and develop good tone and volume. Dan, editor of Flatpicking
Guitar Magazin, co-author of the popular eight volume Flatpicking
Essentials Guitar Course, and co-author of the book "The Guitar Player's
Guide to Developing Speed, Accuracy, and Tone, said, "After
interviewing over 200 professional guitar players for Flatpicking Guitar
Magazine I took all of the information that I had gathered about
developing speed, accuracy, and tone and worked with my good friends
Brad Davis and Tim May to develop a book, DVD, and workshop presentation
that would help players of all levels break through playing barriers
and improve their tone, volume, speed, fluidity, and note accuracy."
Building Interesting Melody-Based Solos:
In this workshop students will first learn how to find chords and
melody to any tune by ear. We then teach how you can use all of a
variety other flatpicking techniques that are available to you in order
to build an interesting solo around the melody. This would be ideal for
those who are working to get away from learning from tab, but would like
to know who to incorporate the melody in their solo. We start with
Carter style and then move beyond that by adding in many other
techniques, such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, drones, double
stops, tremolo, neighboring notes, toggled notes, scale runs (major
scale, major pentatonic scale, major blues scale, minor pentatonic
scale, and minor blues scale), folding scales, crosspicking, and
others. Students will be taught how to come up with numerous
melody-based solo variations to any tune.
Basic Rhythm Workshop:
This workshop provides the techniques of solid bluegrass, Irish,
and Old-Time rhythm (and explores the difference between the three) to
include bass runs, fill licks, alternate strum patterns, developing and
maintaining a good (and stylistically appropriate) groove, ideas about
appropriately supporting the other musicians and the singer with your
rhythm, ideas about moving from rhythm to lead and back. Plus concepts
involving keeping good time, leading the listener's ear to the next
chord change and providing interesting texture to your rhythm.
Advanced Rhythm Workshop:
This workshops is the follow-on to the Basic Rhythm Workshop. Here
we start to get into extended chords, sus chords, diminished chords and
their use in adding flavor to bluegrass, Irish, Old-Time and moving into
Western Swing, swing, Gypsy jazz, and jazz. Since most of the crowd
will consist of fiddle tune and bluegrass flatpickers, we will focus on
how to use these chords to add flavor to your bluegrass and fiddle tune
back up and how to learn interesting rhythm to play behind Western Swing
and swing tunes that typically pop up at a bluegrass jam.
Advanced Improvisation Workshop:
This workshop is a follow-on to the "Approach to Improvisation
Workshop." In the first workshop we focus on diatonic chord
progressions (chords that are "of the key"). Here we start to explore
improvisation of chords that are outside of the key and move on to work
with circle of fifth progressions and how to start improvisation over
swing and jazz changes.
About the Instructors:
Tim
May is
the kind of guy everyone likes. He's humorous, humble, easy-going, and
fun to be around. He's also a very accomplished guitar player, singer,
and songwriter—and one of Nashville's acoustic guitar "go-to guys".
For fifteen years Tim focused on his job as the guitar player
for
the Nashville-based bluegrass band Crucial Smith. When that band broke
up in 2002 the job offers started pouring in. Recent highlights include
touring with Patty Loveless, touring with Eddie Rabbit, touring Japan
with John Cowan, playing on the all-star Rounder project Moody
Bluegrass (and performing with the Moody Blues band at the Ryman
Auditorium), performing on the Grand Ole Opry dozens of times with Mike
Snider, and recording a bluegrass gospel project with Charlie Daniels.
Additionally, FGM Records has released Tim''s solo CD "Find My Way
Back" and Tim is also featured in a new FGM Records concert DVD, "Live
in Kansas City," with Brad Davis and Cody Kilby. While there
are plenty of great guitar pickers in Nashville, Tim May adds
great songwriting and singing to his list of many talents, which
include being equally adept at resonator guitar, banjo, and
mandolin. When he is not on the road or in the recording studio Tim
works building and repairing stringed instruments. He is also
the
co-author of the eight-volume Flatpicking Essentials book/CD series and
co-instructor on three instructional DVDs for guitar.
Dan Miller has
been the publisher and editor of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine since
1996. He has also co-authored a number of flatpicking books, including:
"The Bluegrass Guitar Style of Charles Sawtelle" with Charles Sawtelle,
"Flatpicking the Blues" with Brad Davis, "The Guitar Player's Guide to
Developing Speed, Accuracy and Tone" with Brad Davis, and the Eight
Volume flatpicking course "Flatpicking Essentials" with Tim May. Dan
Miller and Tim May have also produced three instructional DVDs for
guitar players: "Improving Speed, Accuracy, and Tone,"
"Creating
Solos," and "An Approach to Improvisation." Tim May and Dan
Miller also have been performing in a trio with their good friend Brad
Davis (Davis Miller May) since 2005 and have been performing together
as a duo since 2007.
If
you'd like to read a review of the improvisation workshop, written by
Scott Tichenor of mandolincafe.com, click here:
http://www.mandolincafe.com/news/publish/mandolins_001390.shtml
Questions?
Contact:
Dan Miller
dan@flatpick.com
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