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Monday, 10 March 2025 15:23

Strings Now Weekend Workshop Featured

Sample Schedule

  • 8-9AM Drop Off/Arrival
  • 9-9:45AM - Intro/Performance (Lead Instructor -Jenn Cornell will present a looping performance including an overview of her sound equipment, 6-String Electric Cello and multiple effects pedals and discuss her perspectives on how to find a unique voice of musical freedom within the structure of music and the use of technology.)
  • 10-11- Extended Techniques Workshop (harmonics, color change/distortion, hammer on and pull offs, unconventional plucking, slides, power chords, and percussive techniques)
  • 11:15AM Music Theory Basics/Ear Training (Overview of Scales, Key Signatures, Circle of Fifths, Chords and Intervals. Goal: to bring more awareness to how we listen to and perform music. Class will include listening exercises, descriptive writing exercises and creative drawing.)
  • 12-1PM Lunch
  • 1PM- Improv Basics (Pentatonic scale, 12-Bar Blues/Chord Progressions, Finding your voice)
  • 2PM- Personal practice time of Extended Techniques and Improv with 12 part blues backing track (Student will need their own personal device for playing track from Youtube)
  • 3PM- Pickup

Workshop Performance

  • Sunday, July 28 2:00 pm @ CMC Decatur

Additional Info

  • Location: CMC Decatur, 189 Sams Street, Suite B
  • 2025 Dates: July 28-31
  • Schedule: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
  • Tuition: Full Day $525/week, Half Day $425/week
  • 3+ Discount: Full Day: $300/week 3+, Half Day, $200/week 3+
  • Eligibility: grades 6-8, grades 9-12
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