Skagit Valley College Guitar Workshop Series is an ongoing series of workshops sponsored by the Skagit Valley College Community Education department and the Manieri Endowment and Anacortes Library for guitar enthusiasts in the Skagit Valley and surrounding areas. The series is hosted by Jamie Findlay, a longtime guitarist and music educator who’s worked for many years as a pro musician and music professor and features the Pacific Northwest’s top guitarists as guest clinicians. (These are for intermediate to more seasoned players, as the concepts will be more advanced, and not for the beginning guitarist.)
Item Number: 46589
Fee: $75.00
Instructor: James Findlay
Capacity Remaining: 14
Dates: 10/13/2024 - 10/13/2024
Times: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Su
Building: Anacortes Chamber of Commerce
Room:
Unlock the power of triads. Learn to hear and play the fundamental structures that underpin most Western music. Topics include:
How to visualize, hear and play triads in close and open position all over the guitar fretboard.
Learn to play diatonic triad progressions and cycles with good voice-leading
Learn common rhythm guitar phrases that utilize triad upper structures over blues, rock and jazz chord progressions
Brian Monroney: During over three decades as a busy sideman and session musician, guitarist Brian Monroney has performed or recorded with artists including Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow and Tom Jones (Brian toured as Sir Tom’s guitarist and Musical Director for nearly 18 years). In addition to performing and session work, Brian works as an arranger, music copyist, and guitar teacher. Currently a resident of Tacoma, Brian has performed with a number of notable PNW artists and bands including Lee Oskar, Nearly Dan, Greta Matassa, Bill Anschell and Teatro ZinZanni.
Skagit Valley College Guitar Workshop Series is an ongoing series of workshops sponsored by the Skagit Valley College Community Education department and the Manieri Endowment and Anacortes Library for guitar enthusiasts in the Skagit Valley and surrounding areas. The series is hosted by Jamie Findlay, a longtime guitarist and music educator who’s worked for many years as a pro musician and music professor and features the Pacific Northwest’s top guitarists as guest clinicians. (These are for intermediate to more seasoned players, as the concepts will be more advanced, and not for the beginning guitarist.)
Item Number: 46593
Fee: $160.00
Instructor: James Findlay
Capacity Remaining: 12
Dates: 10/13/2024 - 12/8/2024
Times: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Sessions: 3
Days: Su
Building: Anacortes Chamber of Commerce
Room:
Sunday October 13th, 10:30am - 1:00pm
Brian Monroney - Triad Power
Sunday November 17th , 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Dr. Stephen Howland - "Borrowing from Bach"
Sunday December 8th, 10:30am - 1:00 pm
Jamie Findlay - "Interpreting Brazilian Music”
SVC Guitar Workshop Dr. Stephen Howland - "Borrowing from Bach"
Skagit Valley College Guitar Workshop Series is an ongoing series of workshops sponsored by the Skagit Valley College Community Education department and the Manieri Endowment and Anacortes Library for guitar enthusiasts in the Skagit Valley and surrounding areas. The series is hosted by Jamie Findlay, a longtime guitarist and music educator who’s worked for many years as a pro musician and music professor and features the Pacific Northwest’s top guitarists as guest clinicians. (These are for intermediate to more seasoned players, as the concepts will be more advanced, and not for the beginning guitarist.)
Item Number: 46590
Fee: $75.00
Instructor: James Findlay
Capacity Remaining: 15
Dates: 11/17/2024 - 11/17/2024
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Su
Building: Anacortes Chamber of Commerce
Room:
Howland will share his love of exploring melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and textural concepts found in the music of Bach as material to play with in jazz improvisation and practice. Students will get to focus on using small musical motives (figures) built around embellished target tones, using stepwise approaches, neighboring tones, enclosures, and arpeggios. They’ll learn how to use these figures to anticipate and stress harmonic choices in common chord progressions and jazz standards, and add further interest by exploring options of melodic and harmonic development, through ideas like repetition, sequence, inversion, imitation, and rhythmic displacement.
Dr. Stephen Howland:
Stephen Howland is a Lecturer at Pacific Lutheran University where he teaches jazz and classical guitar, co-directs the annual PLU Guitar Festival, and directs the PLU Guitar Festival Jazz Guitar Ensemble. He also has served as a temporary sabbatical replacement and taught ear training and jazz history at PLU. Born and raised in Walla Walla, Washington, Dr. Howland earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance from Arizona State University, Master of Music from ASU, and Bachelor of Music from the University of Idaho. He received the highest marks and many academic honors and awards, including a teaching assistantship at ASU, the Presser Award, and the Eleanor Mader Memorial String Award.
Dr. Howland has a diverse professional background as a guitarist, bandleader, arranger, songwriter, and educator. He has focused on performing original music, including regularly premiering new music at the PLU Guitar Festival since 2012. He has played with many of the great jazz improvisers of our region, including Clipper Anderson, Marco De Carvalho, Kyle Doran, Jared Hall, Brad Gibson, Mark Ivester, Adam Kessler, Kate Olson, Nate Omdal, Jason Parker, Gordy Ryan, Melyssa Stone, Cassio Vianna, among others. Howland has been a featured guitarist-composer in new music festivals and a concert artist and clinician at universities, colleges, and guitar societies throughout the West. He has been featured on recordings as a jazz soloist with big band, classical and early music chamber musician, solo guitarist in various styles, and writer and studio guitarist for independent artists and bands, including the Seattle based rock band Motopony. He has published numerous online sound and video recordings, including a string of guitar demos for Rosewood Guitar in recent years. He has written, arranged, and performed a diverse range of music for solo guitar and mixed ensembles. In 2021 Howland did a guitar orchestra arrangement of the song “Simple Gifts” for the Seattle Classic Guitar Society. Recent jazz guitar ensemble arrangements include works by John Coltrane, Angelo Debarre, Duke Ellington, and Artie Shaw. Since 2009 he has performed with PLU colleague Elizabeth Brown, presenting many of his own arrangements for two guitars, including pieces by Albéniz, Bach, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and Turina. Howland completed his DMA research paper, Edward’s MacDowell’s “Woodland Sketches” Arranged for Guitar: A Performance Edition, Biography, and Literature Review, in 1998. For more information visit
SVC Guitar Workshop Jamie Findlay - "Interpreting Brazilian Music”
Skagit Valley College Guitar Workshop Series is an ongoing series of workshops sponsored by the Skagit Valley College Community Education department and the Manieri Endowment and Anacortes Library for guitar enthusiasts in the Skagit Valley and surrounding areas. The series is hosted by Jamie Findlay, a longtime guitarist and music educator who’s worked for many years as a pro musician and music professor and features the Pacific Northwest’s top guitarists as guest clinicians. (These are for intermediate to more seasoned players, as the concepts will be more advanced, and not for the beginning guitarist.)
Item Number: 46592
Fee: $75.00
Instructor: James Findlay
Capacity Remaining: 14
Dates: 12/8/2024 - 12/8/2024
Times: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Su
Building: Anacortes Chamber of Commerce
Room:
(To Interpret: elucidate, clarify, make clear, illuminate, shed light on, simplify, decipher, decode, untangle)
We will look at some of the popular music of Brazil, primarily Bossa Nova and Samba, but also the Choro. We will look at the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, as well as a few others, and get a learn to play the music as accompanist, and featured melody instrument. We will look at form, rhythmic patterns which tend to be identified with Bossa and Samba, analyze chord progressions, investigate some reharmonizations, and look at playing some of the songs as Solo Guitar Pieces. We’ll look at Wave, Girl from Ipanima, Desafinado, and others.
Jamie Findlay: Jamie, a highly accomplished contemporary acoustic guitarist hailing from Seattle, Washington, has left an indelible mark on the music scene with three solo CDs – "Wings of Light," "Amigos del Corazón," and "Reflections." His eclectic musical style fuses jazz, blues, pop, and funk. Notably, Jamie helped form the Acoustic Jazz Quartet in Los Angeles, contributing to albums like "Organic." His collaboration with guitarist Duck Baker resulted in the acclaimed "Out of the Past" jazz guitar duos. In addition to solo performances, Jamie is active in bands like A Town Big Bang and Herding Katz. With over 30 years of teaching experience at Musicians Institute, USC, and currently Skagit Valley College, Jamie has created instructional DVDs and books on fingerstyle arrangements, harmonic techniques, and chord shapes. Featured in international guitar magazines, he is gearing up for new solo records exploring Beatles' material, "Folk Remedies," and original compositions, showcasing a remarkable career that spans tours across the United States, Asia, Central America, Brazil, and Europe.”
The Mariachi ensemble is a performance-oriented group that focuses on traditional Mexican music that is appropriate to the student's skill level. We concentrate on correct instrumental techniques, music reading skills, memorization, ear training, and stage presence. Instrumentation for this ensemble includes Violin, Guitarron, Vihuela, Trumpet and Voice. Instruments are provided if needed. You can also bring your own.
Item Number: 43167
Fee: $100.00
Instructor: Rene Godina
Capacity Remaining: 27
Dates: 9/24/2024 - 12/13/2024
Times: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sessions: 24
Days: Tu Th
Building: Ford Hall, Mount Vernon Campus
Room: 101
