GUITAR CLASSES IN PURCELLVILLE, VIRGINIA

SHAMROCK MUSIC SHOPPE proudly presents

KARL STRAUB'S GUITAR CLASSES


Instructor Karl Straub teaches guitar techniques that can help you take your guitar playing to the next level. Classes will be geared to the intermediate guitarist. The focus will be on improving your playing top to bottom, beginning with practice tips to start you improving right away. We'll work on various techniques, and focus on "blind spot" issues that many players struggle with. Along with technical information that will apply to any style of playing, classes will also deal with guitar techniques that are associated with specific genres like Rock, Blues, Country, Jazz, Roots, etc. We'll also work on using guitar effects and amps to get different kinds of guitar tones.

Straub will also talk about his specialty, combining aspects of different musical styles to develop your own individual sound. Want to throw a little country picking into your rock playing? Want to play blues like real blues players do? Want to learn just enough jazz to make your rock solos a little hipper? Straub can help.

Straub's guitar classes are ideally suited to players with some experience. If you have played for a while, but are looking to improve your technique and vocabulary, these classes are for you.

Classes will be taught at Shamrock Music Shoppe, 108 N. 21st Street
Purcellville, VA 20132. For information, please contact Scott Kinney.

EMAIL
scott@shamrockmusicshop.com

PHONE

(540) 338-3313
(571) 420-1433

Karl Straub has a music education degree, and 25 years of professional experience. He's played on albums by his own band the Graverobbers, as well as recordings by Last Train Home, Kevin Johnson and the Linemen, Ed O'Connell, Date Bait, Butch Willis, and Little Pink.
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SONGWRITING CLASSES IN PURCELLVILLE, VIRGINIA

SHAMROCK MUSIC SHOP proudly presents

KARL STRAUB'S SONGWRITING CLASSES


Songwriter Karl Straub teaches all the tricks for making your songs better. Learn techniques for making your songs catchier and more memorable, including chord progressions, fitting chords and melody together, editing lyrics to match them with stronger melodies, and much more. Learn how to use the same compositional methods that worked for Mozart, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Duke Ellington, etc. These secrets of the craft can work in any musical style or genre.

Karl has taught songwriting to students at various levels of experience, from beginner to professional. Students will be placed in classes appropriate for their needs. Please contact Scott Kinney for information.
EMAIL scott@shamrockmusicshop.com

PHONE
(540) 338-3313
(571) 420-1433

Classes will happen at Shamrock Music Shoppe, 108 N. 21st Street,
Purcellville, VA 20132. www.shamrockmusicshop.com

Instructor Karl Straub has a music education degree and 25 years of experience writing and performing original music in many styles. His songs have been recorded by artists in various genres, inc. alt-country (Last Train Home and Eugene Chadbourne), alternative rock (Virginia Coalition), jazz vocal (Lisa Moscatiello), roots rock (the Grandsons and Little Pink), and rock and roll (Karl's bands the Graverobbers and the Karl Straub Combo). Straub is currently co-writing an album project with Eric Brace of Last Train Home.
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