Russ Barenberg Workshops

[Dan Miller]

Russ Barenberg will be teaching workshops at several places throughout the summer. He will be a featured instructor at Steve Kaufman's Acoustic Kamp in Maryville, TN in June. He will be teaching in Nashville in early July as part of the National Guitar Workshop. He will be teaching at the Rocky Grass Academy in Lyons, CO, later in July. And he will be teaching at the Augusta Heritage Center Bluegrass Week during late July/early August. Russ is also performing at various venues with Bryan Sutton this summer. For Russ' complete schedule, check out his website.

[Jason Shadrick]

Hot Flatpicking Guitar with Mike Cramer, with Special Guest Russ Barenberg

Build your repertoire of flatpicking fiddle tunes and learn how to develop songs with variation and improvisation. Students will have the opportunity to use a number of different tunes to learn important left and right hand techniques, as well as discuss music theory, as it relates to flatpicking guitar. Faculty member Mike Cramer gave us a taste of what we could expect in his seminar: “One of the activities we’ll do is take a standard fiddle tune, such as Billy in the Lowground, and explore new ways to play it. To accomplish this we will explore a technique commonly refered to as cascades or floaties. By incorporating this technique, you will be able to keep multiple strings ringing simultaneously. Imagine, at your next jam session, instead of sounding like a type-writer punching notes out, Billy in the Lowground sounds as if it’s being played by a harp.” Hot Flatpicking Guitar will be held in our Nashville, TN location at Vanderbilt University from July 5th through July 10th, with special guest Russ Barenberg.

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