Novice Guitar Session I with Bob McCloy

Saturday , January 09, 2010
10:30 am - 12:30
Location: Elderly Instruments
workshop ($40)

For YouTube sample lessons and free downloads of sheet music click here.

This workshop is intended for total novices--people who, perhaps, got a guitar for Christmas but don't know how to hold it, let alone tune it--people who can't play a lick ["What's a 'lick'?"] but want to get started. Anyone between the ages of 10 and 100 who wants to start playing but needs a nudge, or a "safe" place to learn, will benefit from this hands-on workshop.

Bob McCloy's Novice Guitar Workshop will get new players off to a good start by teaching the basics and discouraging bad habits. The January class will learn essential basics--how to hold the guitar, tune it, play basic chords (D, G, and A7), name the strings, timing, how to read a fingerboard diagram, hand and finger positions, and more. You'll be playing your first songs before class is over. Bring your acoustic guitar!

A conscientious and thorough instructor who wants to help his students excel, Bob provides beneficial hand-out materials to help students practice more effectively following the workshop. Tape recorders are welcome in the class, but all course material will be provided in a course pack that includes a CD (with a drum machine, no less, to help with rhythm) and written music (with both standard notation and tablature).

Bob McCloy has been a popular and successful music instructor (in all levels and styles of guitar, mandolin, and fiddle) for nearly 30 years. The experience he has acquired teaching thousands of students to play enables them to become musically self-sufficient while turning their "work" into pure pleasure.

For sound samples, workshop updates, a sampling of the broad variety of music offered by Bob in professional performances, and testimonials from appreciative audiences and students, visit Bob's website at www.robertmccloy.com.

"I find Bob to be an excellent teacher who takes time to deal with each student individually. He is adept at understanding what the student needs in order to be a better player." - Jim Bowes, a satisfied guitar student