at beautiful Perelandra Studio
in Asheville, North Carolina.
A week carefully designed by Jon to help you get the most out of your Hammered Dulcimer playing abilities ... along with opening new doors of understanding and application.
Here is what you will learn:
Jon's system of easy-to-learn and fast-to-play chords for playing backup.
Chord striking rhythms for accompaniment for duets, dances, and jams.
Chord Theory especially as it relates to the hammered dulcimer.
Common chord substitutions and interesting progressions for accompaniment and arranging.
What are chord inversions, why are they important, and how to use them.
Using chords to make beautiful solo dulcimer arrangements.
Chord Walking - a technique of quickly arranging simple tunes you already know without the need for written music.
Melody note walking - melody lines and counter melodies to play between the chords, actual or implied.
Chord note walking (chord striking patterns) to add interest, flavor, and melody breaks to arrangements.
Using chords for accompanying choral groups (or yourself singing).
Drumming chords on your dulcimer.
Rag lick style of playing chords and embellishing melodies.
Using chords and chordal hand independence in a solo arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon.
Jon Weinberg has been playing the acoustic guitar since 1967 and hammered dulcimer since 1990. He is a frequent performer and teacher at dulcimer festivals in the northeast US including the Cranberry Dulcimer Gathering, the Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival, the Pocono Winter Dulcimer Festival in Pennsylvania, and beyond the northeast at the ODPC Funfest in Evart, MI and the Winston-Salem Dulcimer Festival in North Carolina. For many years Jon was the hammered dulcimer coordinator of the now-defunct Cambridge Spring Dulcimer festival.
Jon plays dulcimer at weddings, church services, and other celebratory events, and performs concerts at coffeehouses, town events, restaurants, and at residential assisted living and nursing home facilities. He has accompanied the New England Children's Choir at the New England Conservatory of Music and at Boston Symphony Hall, is a featured speaker and performer on the hammered dulcimer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and is a frequent performer at NEFFA (the New England Folk Festival).
Registration Fee $350.00
The registration fee includes:
All workshop materials and expenses including handouts, practice CDs to take home, classroom facility costs, Jon's time and energy, etc.
An oh-so-chic Chord Camp TShirt
Lunch fixins for make-your-own salad and sandwich lunches
Drinks and snacks during the day
This amount is payable in full when you enroll.
To Enroll ... and for a more complete description please visit Jon's Site ... HERE
