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Winter 2010 Short Seminars
Blue Bear Short Seminars are fun and affordable one-night classes for beginners and all levels. Blue Bear Members get one free seminar per annual membership. Call 415.673.3600 to reserve your free seminar.
"Must-Know" Chord Progressions
Monday, January 11, 6:30-8:30pm
Brian Gire
This seminar covers the common ways that chords are combined in songs. Learn about numerical analysis, voice leading, chord families and substitution to bump up your writing and improv skills!
Cost: $30
How to Sing and Play Guitar Together
Monday, January 11, 6:30-8:30pm
Janak Ramachandran
You can sing, you can play, but it all falls apart when you try to put it together? Learn tips for how
to practice and develop singing-while-playing skills, including the most important aspects of basic
vocal technique.
Cost: $30
Modern Shred Chops and Beyond!
Tuesday, January 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Lindsey Boullt
This seminar will teach many cool concepts to apply to your soloing, including flip-flop theory,
chord + 1, rhythmic divisions and the four foundations of melody. You'll learn some great shred
licks, modern solo approaches to wide interval expression and the wonderful importance of modes.
You'll get the most out of this seminar if you can already play some simple leads.
Cost: $30
From Grit to Grease: Rock Vocal Texture
Wednesday, January 13, 6:30-9pm
Janak Ramachandran
Learn how to create vocal colors, from raw to refined, from sugary to sassy, without hurting your
voice. You'll explore techniques such as the glottal scrape, covered tone and truncated yodel to take
your singing to the next level!
Cost $35
Intro to Speech Level Singing
Thursday, January 14, 6:30-8:30pm
Masha Campagna
Learn the basics of this powerful, effective vocal technique that's been used by such stars as
Michael McDonald, Michael Jackson and Barbra Streisand. You'll get a chance to experience the
benefits with some individual work in class.
Cost: $30
Scale Construction Made Simple
Thursday, January 14, 6:30-8:30pm
Brian Gire
The theory, construction and application of parental scales and their offspring (the modes). You'll relate the information to the guitar fretboard, and consider the relationship of scales to chords.
Cost: $30
Intro to Drums
Saturday, January 16, 10:30am-12:30pm
Shaun McGonegal
Here's your chance to take a drum kit for a test ride: basic stick technique, simple beats and some snazzy demonstrations from Blue Bear's funky and fab drum instructor.
Cost: $30
Master Artist Seminars
The Fundamentals of Funk with Stu Hamm
Monday, January 11, 6:30-8:30pm
Learn the musical and technical aspects of funk bass from one of the funkiest bass masters on the planet! Renowned bass player Stu Hamm has toured and recorded with such guitar icons as Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Frank Gambale. Stu will cover 16th-note consciousness, finger techniques, slapping and popping, and you'll learn some seriously funky bass lines in the process.
Cost: $65
Blue Bear members may use their annual free Short Seminar to get half off.
Due to unforeseen conflicts, these seminars have been cancelled.
Tone Seminar with Tal Morris
Tal will explain the different elements of the signal chain: pickups, effects and amps. You'll learn how to "get great tone" in a range of classic rock and blues styles.
Acme Lead Guitar Seminar with Tal Morris
All the "must-know" basics on lead guitar: the five licks you can't live without, how to make simple ideas interesting, the bend and pray method, dynamics, phrasing, mapping, and the lead guitar "secret weapon." And more!
Blue Bear alumnus Tal Morris is a Bay Area guitar prodigy who tours the world as lead guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revisited, and has also performed with Bill Champlin's legendary San Francisco psychedelic-soul band The Sons of Champlin as well as Huey Lewis & the News (including an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien).
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