GUITAR CLASSES AT  Timbre Folk on-line

AUGUST-SEPTEMBER GUITAR CLASSES 2025

Fingerpicking Blues Favorites

Online (Zoom)

6 weeks beginning Tuesday, August 12

7-8:30

Price: $175

In this class we will fingerpick our way through some 

of my favorite blues classics. Songs will include:

Stag-o-Lee (Mississippi John Hurt)

Deep River Blues (Doc Watson)

Glory of Love (Big Bill Broonzy)

Poor Boy Long Way from Home (traditional, open D tuning)

Crazy Cryin’ Blues (Memphis Minnie, open G tuning)

Participants should have some experience with alternate bass fingerpicking

Swing Blues

In-person at Timbre Folk in Berkeley

801 Bancroft st

6 weeks beginning Wednesday, August 13 

7:15-8:45

Price: $175

Swing Blues covers a variety of genres from the jazzy influenced Jump and West Coast styles to the Western Swing and Rockabilly styles of the 40’s, 50s and 60’s. Guitarists like T-Bone walker, Bill Jennings, Tiny Grimes, Duke Robillard, Hollywood Fats and Charlie Christian are widely acknowledged for establishing the role of the guitar in this exciting musical genre.

In this class we will go beyond 12 bar, I IV V chord changes and become familiar with some of the more jazzy elements of blues playing:

* 8 bar blues

* ii V I turnarounds

* Freddie Green chord voicing

* using major and minor pentatonic scales for soloing

For more information or to signup contact Pete Madsen:

buzzyfrets@yahoo.com/(510)708-8874

I also teach private lessons at my studio in Berkeley. E-mail or call me for rates and availability.