Guitar Classes with Bertrand Laurence in Harvard Square April 21, 2011

Slide Guitar Introduction with Bertrand Laurence
Mondays, May 2, 9, 16, 23, June 6, 13 [6:30 pm - 7:45 pm]
The timeless sounds of Slide guitar never went out of style. Freed from the constraints of the frets, the player can evoke the human speech like few other instruments can. From haunting blues, soulful Gospel to giddy Hawaiian swing, the slide guitar can eloquently express an infinite range of emotions and subtleties.
$10 Material fees to cover Print outs, PDFs, and Mp3s.

All American Fingerstyle Part 3 with Bertrand Laurence
Mondays, May 2, 9, 16, 23, June 6, 13 [8:00 pm - 9:15 pm]
Consolidating basic fingerstyle patterns and turning them into actual guitar pieces, we will explore how chord shapes can be broken down and played up and down against open strings. Playful, creative, improvisational "Noodling" will be encouraged with given chord systems.
$10 Material fees to cover Print outs, PDFs, and Mp3s.

Fretboard Logic: Basic Harmony for Guitar Part 2 and 3, with Bertrand Laurence
Tuesdays, May 10, 17, 24, 31, June 7, 14 [6:30 pm - 7:45 pm]
$132 nonmembers / $108 members
Drum roll: yes, learning practical Harmony is fun and easy on the guitar! The guitar neck can be a daunting grid from the outside, but through this course, we'll unlock the not-so-hidden intelligence of its organization by mapping out the neck. True for any style at all, traveling up, down and across the neck with ease can be fluid when thinking and hearing globally.