Meets Tuesdays at 7:30pm, starting Jan 10
Instructor: Matt Evans
For absolute beginners and students looking for a more structured approach to the banjo. Learn right hand technique and good rhythm. We’ll work on one banjo tune in this class.
Sound files and tablature provided; an electronic tuner is highly recommended.
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Fiddle 1: Thursdays at 7:30pm, starting Jan 12
Instructor: Matt Evans
Brief Description: Get started playing any style of fiddle music in this class that will focus on learning and improving basic fiddle techniques.
For: Absolute beginners, and students who are looking for a more structured learning approach.
Description: We will [...]
Tuesdays at 6pm, starting Jan 10
Instructor: John Boulware
A class for beginning to intermediate fiddlers who are looking to learn more techniques and tunes! We’ll be exploring a variety of more complicated fiddle techniques including a new bowing exercise every week as well as some left hand exercises. We will cover an [...]
Announcing… The launch of the new roving, rambling, site-specific, semi-spontaneous, drop-of-the-hat, all-ages, fun-for-all, good times anytime community pickup band– Folk Star Parking! This amorphous, ambiguous, amphibious, ambidextrous ensemble is comprised of students, teachers, and friends of the Folk School of Chattanooga. At this point, you should be asking yourself, “am I in the band?” [...]
Thursdays at 6pm, starting Jan 12
Instructor: Christie Burns
Learn how to make sweet beautiful music on the mountain dulcimer, an instrument that is as easy to learn as it is fun to play. We’ll start from the very beginning (this side up) and work our way through fun tunes you probably [...]
Wednesdays at 7:30, starting Jan 11
Instructor: Randy Steele
For students who are ready to move out of Bluegrass Banjo 1, or have gotten a good running start on playing the banjo already.
Or, Questions raised and lessons learned at the Hoots and Hellmouth / Holy Ghost Tent Revival show at Rhythm & Brews, March 9, 2011.
Ok, so if a tree falls in the forest… and it happens to be a truly magnificent tree, a tree pounding with life [...]
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Folk School of Chattanooga
250 Forest Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37405
423-827-8906
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