Creative Mandolin Backup Workshop with Sharon Gilchrist

We're excited to announce an exciting new six-part live Zoom workshop series coming your way! The great Sharon Gilchrist Music will be teaching Creative Mandolin Backup, starting Wednesday, September 11, at 5:00 - 6:30 PM Pacific Time, and happening every-other-Wednesday until November 20. Take a look at Sharon's workshop introduction video at the link, and join us! https://ow.ly/EPON50T5mWF

Sharon's Creative Mandolin Backup workshop is designed for mandolinists who want to develop their rhythm and backup beyond the basic mandolin chord forms and chop or boom-chick rhythm. In this workshop, Sharon will show you a few simple, easy-to-grasp concepts that will help you vary your backup playing. These concepts will allow you to improvise and respond to the instrumentalists and/or singers you’re playing with. She will talk about playing chords in different registers of the mandolin, adding sevenths to a chord when you want to move in a certain direction, creating walking lines with double stops and chords, varying your rhythm patterns, accenting the ends of verses or different parts of a tune, and more. These concepts will allow you to be more engaged the entire time you’re playing and contribute more to the overall sound of the music, which will make the entire experience of playing with other people more dynamic, alive, and fun. https://ow.ly/EPON50T5mWF

The fee for the six-part Creative Mandolin Backup series is $200 and consists of six 90-minute live Zoom workshops. Each live workshop will be recorded in high-quality video and audio and edited for viewing and study both during the course and after its conclusion. https://ow.ly/EPON50T5mWF