Guitar Workshop: Games for Improvisation On Guitar

Note - to book for this event, please email bluegrass@xtra.co.nz before the day of the workshop.

This workshop is tutored by Nigel Gavin and members of the renowned Gitbox Rebellion, who are performing a concert at the Wellington Bluegrass Society on the previous night to this workshop.

The guitar is the ultimate playstation!

Workshop: Games for Improvisation on the Guitar

This workshop will focus on games and strategies for the guitarist to improve their improvisational skills and techniques in personal practise. The participants should come away with a new found joy of practise and creativity. The skills highlighted will also be very useful for composition and invention. Who needs computer games when the guitar is so deep?

Some basic experience on the guitar will be beneficial for this workshop.

"Nigel Gavin is one of New Zealand’s musical treasures. The eccentric range of his musical projects is matched only be his astonishing virtuosity with stringed instruments and his prodigious musical imagination. Guitarists will be simply astonished by the technique on display here. Nigel’s finger-picking is so fast, so smooth and so laden with sudden virtuoso explosions that it is d*mn near impossible to work out either what he’s doing, or how he’s doing it.” - Tauranga Weekend Sun

"...a minstrel for the new millenium." - Guitarist Australian

Bookings:
- essential
- accepted before the day
- email bluegrass@xtra.co.nz, include your name, phone contact
- you will receive a reply by email to confirm your booking
- there are no booking fees nor any additional fees for this event

Notes:
- Free parking available by or near the venue
- Airport Flyer and Eastbourne buses stop nearby to the venue