Old Songs, Inc. is a not-for-profit, educational, 501(c)3 corporation
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PO Box 466 • 37 S Main • Voorheesville, NY 12186-0466
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5:30 pm
Clawhammer Banjo: Intermediate
$127
with Paul Draper This class is for those who already have some clawhammer banjo experience, and can already play some tunes. The tunes you’ll be learning will use the essential left hand techniques of hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides. Also you will use right hand techniques such as the drop-thumb and the “galax lick.” You will […]
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Mandolin
with Ron Gordon We will learn the picking and fingering exercises that enable the ability to play the mandolin. We’ll cover a combination of traditional American and Celtic fiddle tunes as well as beginning classical pieces to facilitate your musical expression. There will be a combination of reading music on the mandolin, as well as […]
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Fingerpicking & Flatpicking Guitar
$127
with Ron Gordon Learn and apply the fundamental concepts of counterpoint on the steel string guitar. This involves leading, alternate, and runs in the bass; while strumming a rhythm or finger picking an arpeggio, pattern pick, melody line, etc. Knowledge of chords “down the neck”, and how to play a basic rhythm is necessary. For returning students, the songs […]
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