Instructional Clinics and Workshops
at the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase, October 22 & 23, 2011, Woodstock, New York
The Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase announces its schedule of Instructional Clinics and Workshops for the weekend of October 23 & 24, 2011. This year’s Clinics and Workshops are presented with support from ACOUSTIC GUITAR Magazine.
All Clinics will be held at The Bear Café, 295 Tinker Street (Route 212), Woodstock, NY 12498, right next door to the Bearsville Theater. Separate admission: $35 each, cash only please. Clinics are about an hour long. Participants should bring their own instruments, tuners, capos, any permitted recording devices, etc.
Limited space, advance reservations recommended, by email to info@woodstockinvitational.com, please put “Clinic Reservation” in the Subject line, and include which Clinic(s) you wish to attend, your name, email address, and telephone number.
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Paul Asbell • Fingerstyle Country Blues Workshop
Saturday, October 22 @ 10:00 AM
Fingerstyle blues guitar, in the styles of Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Robert Johnson, Blind Blake, Merle Travis, Dave van Ronk, and others. Topics covered will include right hand fundamentals, such as alternate-bass technique, Delta-style drones, palm muting, and exercises to create effortless dexterity, syncopations and strong grooves. Left-hand issues range from basic chord concepts to sophisticated jazz and ragtime chord substitutions, moving bass lines, “guide tones”, etc, w/ emphasis on creating your own licks, turnarounds and variations within the style. All levels welcome, but many ideas will be geared to the evolved player. Tablature spoken here, but this will not be just a “lecture”- plenty of foot-stompin’ music will be played, and participants are encouraged to bring an audio or video recorder to get the most out of the workshop!
Paul Asbell has performed and recorded with numerous legends of jazz, blues, and folk, including Jon Hendricks, Bobby McFerrin, Betty Carter, James Carter, Sonny Stitt, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Joshua Redman, Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield, Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, John Lee Hooker, David Bromberg, Paul Siebel, Rosalie Sorrels, Mary McCaslin, former student Trey Anastasio, and countless others. He is a founding member of internationally renowned jazz-fusion group Kilimanjaro. He has taught guitar for over 35 years, at Dartmouth College, St. Michaels College, Skidmore College, and presently teaches at University of Vermont and Middlebury College.
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David Temple • Classical & Brazilian Melodic Techniques
Saturday, October 22 @ 11:30 AM
This clinic addresses the performer who wishes to heighten the emotional impact with his or her performance. Often the original inspiration we feel with a new song, piece, or composition can get lost in the technical challenges along the way, and we lose touch with our love of connecting with our listeners’ humanity. Often our notion of developing technique becomes a separate entity, cut off from our need to express ourselves through music. We will work on a piece (of only moderate difficulty) together in this clinic, discovering how it is actually easier to play with exciting musical elements than it is to push through in a monotonous, “teeth-gritting” manner. Our performance will breathe as we do, and we will set out to take our listeners -- and ourselves -- on a beautiful, manifold journey.
Classical guitarist David Temple has performed for the Festival of the Arts at Mohonk, the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, and the Foothills Performing art Center in Oneonta, among others. His mission is to present concerts full of color and variety, appealing to the newcomer as well as the long-time listener. He released his fourth CD this past year, entitled “Winter Stillness [In Flight]”, featuring four centuries of music, and includes several new original arrangements. David teaches guitar privately at his home-studio in Red Hook, NY.
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Kinloch Nelson • Arranging Songs For Solo Guitar, Some Fingerboard Mapping & A Little Theory
Saturday, October 22 @ 1:00 PM
The concept is simple enough: melody+chords=song. Making the result musical is maybe another subject entirely, but we can at least analyze the necessary components and frame them within the constructs of the guitar fingerboard. This workshop will begin right away playing a song (bring guitars, in tune). We will outline a melody, put chords underneath it and play it. We will do this with at least two songs. From there we’ll discuss ways to do this with almost any song. Players of any level are welcome. Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced can all benefit from this material. Notebooks are suggested. Audio recording devices are permitted.
Kinloch Nelson began playing guitar for fun in 1956, seriously in 1968 and professionally in 1973. Nelson grew up in interesting times: the tail end of the jazz era, the high point of the Broadway-to-the-movies musicals, the heyday of AM radio and the beginning of ‘underground’ FM radio. The ever expanding music scene of these years served as the backdrop to Nelson’s guitar explorations and the foundation of a 40 year performance career in folk, rock, R&B, country, jazz, classical music, and American fingerstyle guitar.
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Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo • Duet Arrangements and Interplay for Jazz Guitar
Sunday, October 23 @ 10:00 AM
Frank Vignola and Vinny Raniolo have been touring together as a guitar duo for nearly 4 years and have played hundreds and hundreds of shows together. They will give you their insight into how to play with another guitarist as well an insights and tips into playing solo’s, melodies, rhythm and how to learn the fingerboard. Bring your guitars for this one, as jamming together is the real way to learn.
Even though his career in music is only at the beginning, Vinny Raniolo has already had many opportunities that take most players a lifetime to achieve. Now playing guitar along side many of the finest musicians in the world, at age 27, Vinny has already toured the world and has performed at some of the world’s finest venues. Vinny has performed and recorded with many great musicians such as, Frank Vignola, Bucky Pizzarelli, Tommy Emmanuel, Tony Trishka, Casey Driessen and Matt Flinner to name a few. Vinny is also an educator and has taught guitar for many years privately and through college level master classes.
Frank Vignola is one of the most extraordinary guitarists performing before the public today. His stunning virtuosity has made him the guitarist of choice for many of the world’s
top musicians, including Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donald Fagen, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Emmanuel, Mark O Connor, the Boston Pops, the New York Pops, and guitar legend Les Paul, who named Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Guitarists List” for the Wall Street Journal. Vignola’s jaw-dropping technique explains why the New York Times deemed him “one of the brightest...stars of the guitar”.
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Doug Wamble • The 88 Key Guitar: Applying Piano Techniques to the Guitar.
Sunday, October 23 @ 12:00 pm
From the stride piano tradition of jazz greats like Fats Waller, to the New Orleans masters like Professor Longhair, and the rousing chords of gospel music, there is a treasure trove of music out there just waiting to be applied to the guitar. Doug will show you all the tricks and techniques to make six strings sound like 88 keys.
A native of Memphis, TN, Doug Wamble has always been surrounded by a vast musical and cultural landscape. Since moving to New York City, he has performed and recorded with artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Cassandra Wilson, Branford Marsalis, Bill Frisell and Charlie Hunter. He has composed and performed original works for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Chamber Music America, and film soundtracks for acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns including “The Tenth Inning,” “Prohibition” and “The Central Park Five.” Doug has released three solo albums as a leader and his forthcoming album,
“Fast as Years, Slow as Days,” is due later this year. “A one-man compendium of avant Americana.” – The New Yorker.
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Happy Traum • 12-String Guitar Workshop
Sunday, October 23 @ 3:00 PM
This session will be aimed at early- to mid-intermediate players who want to explore the strengths (and the weaknesses) of using the 12-string for blues and country fingerpicking, as well as other arranging possibilities that this instrument affords for acoustic music. The emphasis will (obviously) be on Lead Belly and other traditional 12-string players, including Brownie McGhee and Pete Seeger. Some uses of alternate tunings, particularly dropped D, will be discussed, along with alternate-thumb style instruction, chordal ideas, bass runs and more. Both 6- and 12-string players will be welcome.
Happy Traum's 50-year involvement in traditional American music has brought him recognition as a performer, writer, editor, folklorist, teacher and recording artist. He has performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, both as a soloist and with his late brother, Artie Traum. Happy has appeared and recorded with Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Eric Andersen, Allen Ginsberg and numerous others. He has written more than a dozen guitar instruction books, and as the co-owner (with Jane Traum) of Homespun Tapes, has produced more than 600 music lessons on DVDs and audio CDs, featuring internationally acclaimed artists.
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