
SCHEDULE FOR TGG13
TGG13 WORKSHOPS
WS-3: 4:30 FRIDAY
TUNE WRITING
GRANT FLICK
Tunewriting: We’ll look at strategies for composition and how to write your own music. By focusing on fiddle tunes and other short term pieces, we’ll discover how writing benefits overall musicianship. This will likely be a larger discussion and steered by student interest. Should be a good fit whether you’ve written a lot or none at all. All tunings are welcome but I will be in fifths of some sort
WS-4: 10:30 SATURDAY
THE NEUROSCIENCE OF PRACTICE
(G-D-A-E)
ALISON HELZER
The Neuroscience of Practice: What science teaches us about music, learning, and muscle memory. Alison uses her background in neuroscience to explain science-backed strategies for efficient practice and learning.
All tunings welcome, but specific exercises will be provided in G-D-A-E
WS-5: 11:30 SATURDAY
CHORD MELODY FOR EVERYONE (YES, EVERYONE!)
AUGUST WATTERS
Chord Melody for Everyone (Yes, Everyone!): This accessible discussion will focus on how we intuitively associate chords with melody notes. Scale degrees and “Nashville numbers”
are tools that can help! The process is the same in every tuning. (I will use C-G-D-A). Whether your goal is to sing and strum, jam with others, or play solo, this workshop is designed to help you understand and advance the music that’s already in your ears
WS-6: 1:30 SATURDAY
BASS -NAVIGATING THE CHORD CHANGES
PAUL GABRIELSON
Navigating the chord changes and bring more interest to your bass lines: I will discuss and demonstrate typical bass lines over common changes and how to fine tune them to support
the ensemble or soloist and bring energy and life to a performance.
Tuning will be in fourths E-A-D-G (low to high) but will be applicable to all tunings
WS-8: 3:30 SATURDAY
NATIVE AMERICAN "FIDDLE TUNES"
FOR TENOR GUITAR(GDAE & CGDA)
PAT MacSWYNEY
Learn“Old Time” traditional Native American dance tunes on Tenor Guitar. For melody players, we will learn a few traditional melodies that fit for both GDAE & CGDA tunings and for chord players, we will learn to back up the melody. Extending an open invite to any fiddlers, mandolin players or others who might want to join in and learn a few new tunes. Note that there is a rich, centuries-old fiddle tradition among many Native American tribes including the Cherokee, Yaqui, Inuit, Tohoho O’odham, Sioux & Metis, to name a
few.
WS-9: 4:30 SATURDAY
TUNE TYPES IN IRISH MUSIC
GERRY CARTHY
A chat about different tune types in Irish music e.g. jigs, reels, hornpipes, slow airs. A scale exercise in D and G – which illustrate the underlying patterns of the tunes especially as
they relate to rhythm in Irish music. I will teach a Kerry polka – maybe two if there’s time. Using chords in slow airs.
Time for questions.