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Flatpicking Guitar
Workshops & Concerts
Wednesday, 1 May 2013 Asheville, NC Tim May and Dan Miller Workshop Improvisation for Guitar and Mandolin 828A Hendersonville Road Asheville, NC Time: 7 to 9:00 Cost: $40
Thursday, 2 May, 2013 Durham, NC Tim May and Dan Miller Workshop Improvisation for Guitar and Mandolin Workshop will be held in an office space at the Triangle Community Foundation office Suite1220 "at the top of the creak across from the railroad car." Meet at Mellow Mushroom Pizza 410 Blackwell St Durham, NC Workshop Time: 7 to 9 pm (meet at Mellow Mushroom Pizza at 6:30) Cost: $40
Friday, 3 May 2013 Ashland, VA Dan Miller and Tim May Concert Iron Horse Restaurant 100 South Railroad Avenue Ashland, VA 23005 No cover
Saturday, 4 May 2013 Ashland, VA Dan Miller and Tim May Workshop Improvisation for Guitar and Mandolin 116 N Railroad Ave Ashland, VA 23005 Time: 10 to noon Cost: $40
Saturday, 4 May 2013 Silver Spring, MD Dan Miller and Tim May House Concert 9819 Capitol View Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910 Time: 7 to 9 pm Cost: Suggested $10 Donation Call 800-413-8296 to register
Sunday, 5 May 2013 Silver Spring, MD Dan Miller and Tim May Workshop Improving Timing & Rhythm and Developing a Groove for Guitar and Mandolin 9819 Capitol View Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910 Time: 2 to 4 pm Cost: $40 Call 800-413-8296 to register
Wednesday, 8 May 2013 Lexington, VA Rockbridge Music Dan Miller and Tim May Workshop Improving Timing & Rhythm and Developing a Groove for Guitar and Mandolin 205 North Main Street Lexington, VA 24450-2616
Thursday, 9 May 2013 Abingdon, VA Capo's Music Store Dan Miller and Tim May Workshop Improving Timing & Rhythm and Developing a Groove for Guitar and Mandolin 903 East Main Street Abingdon, VA 24210 Time: 7 to 9 pm Cost: $40 Directions: (276) 525-1880 For Reservations: 800-413-8296 Workshop Price: $40
Saturday, 11 May 2013 Louisville, KY Dan Miller and Tim May Workshop Improving Timing & Rhythm and Developing a Groove TBA
Saturday, 25 May 2013 Near Steelville, MO Memorial Day Weekend West Fork Pickin' Party Dan Miller teaching two workshops on Sauturday: Rhythm, Timing, and Groove Workshop in the morning Improvisation Workshop in the afternoon For information and directions:
Monday 15 July through Friday 19 July Levelland, Texas Camp Bluegrass Dan Miller and Tim May will teach for 5 days at this wonderful music camp For more information:
Monday 5 August through Thrusday 8 August Alta, Wyoming Grand Targhee Music Camp Dan Miller, along with Courtney Hartman and Grant Gordy, will teach guitar at the guitar for four days at this incredible music camp. For more information: 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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