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Feb-14-2005, 10:37am
We're gearing-up at the Northern Virginia 4-H Educational Center for a new season of Adult Music Programs with Niles Hokkanen and Don Kawalek and are excited about what we have on tap for the spring. We hope you will find the time to join us for one of our new program offerings or one of our veteran workshops back for a repeat run; either way, we haven't changed the commitment to education, fun, and service we strive to offer to you. We hope to see you at one of the following four offerings:
OCTAVE MANDOLIN MAKING WORKSHOP with Don Kawalek
April 3-6, 2005
The Mandolin Making Workshop will provide each participant with a great opportunity to build his/her own musical instrument. This program, designed for beginner and advanced craftspersons, will occur over three-and-a-half days and feature:
-- Professional instruction from Don Kawalek, a seasoned instrument-maker and master builder with 28 years of experience.
-- The opportunity to build either a standard or octave mandolin.
-- Special "techniques" workshops on inlaying, bending, and finishing.
The octave mandolin you will make will have the following attributes:
-- Flat top mandolin with a 22.875scale length with a neck / body joint at the 14th fret.
-- A Pau Ferro/Morado fingerboard.
-- Black walnut book matched sides and back.
-- Black walnut neck with an adjustable truss rod and dovetail joint to allow for the use of binding and purfling.
-- An Engleman Spruce top.
-- Rosewood overlay peg head.
-- Induced arch X bracing pattern on the soundboard.
-- Fee includes all materials, hardware (strings, tuning machines, tailpiece), instruction, lodging, meals, and other extras.
-- Program starts on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. and concludes on Wednesday by 2:00 p.m.
-- Lodging on Saturday or Wednesday evening available at additional cost.
-- Participation limited to 10 people.
-- $525.00 for an Octave Mandolin and everything as described above.
-- Day rate is $455.00 and includes three lunches and Sunday dinner. Additional meals can be purchased as we go through the program.
-- You may send a $100.00 deposit to hold a space. The balance due will be collected upon arrival at the program.
-- Early-Bird Rate: if you pay in-full by March 1, 2005, you save $30.00 on the program fee.
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BEGINNER'S BLUEGRASS/OLD-TIME MANDOCRUCIAN BOOT CAMP with Niles Hokkanen
April 3-6, 2005
Three days of intensive mandolin instruction with one of the top mandolin teachers in the country! All students should already have six months of playing ability (chord structure, note knowledge) and should have an understanding of written tab for mandolin. Niles will use Southern U.S. tunes/songs as teaching vehicles. Skills and lessons taught include:
-- Improving or correcting your plectrum technique, developing good left-hand fretting habits, and synchronizing the hands for clean playing and tone. Fighting "deathgrip" tension with special stretches which loosen the wrists and with relaxation/breathing drills.
-- Starting to develop the Ear>Hand neural wiring with a proactive approach instead of by osmosis. Why wait until you can play fast(er) to start working on the "ear" when you can train both your fingers and ear simultaneously?
-- Learning HOW to "practice", taking any simple tune and turning it into a whole series of exercises which will expand your playing of those tunes as you increase your technical capabilities. Increasing your ability to "embellish" a simple tune or song melody, adding more notes into the flow.
-- Focusing on scales, arpeggios and the concept of "patternization" AND how to apply them to your playing. These are NOT just mechanical finger exercises if you understand possible applications. Yes, you will have to do your mechanical "pushups" and drills, but understanding WHY you want these in your arsenal is a real incentive to working on them.
-- Illustrating the application of ideas/concepts/techniques etc. While you will learn some new tunes (from various styles and countries), the emphasis is not on increasing your repertoire, but on this application. As one of his students has said, "Niles doesn't sell you fish, he sells you bait, a rod and tells you where they are biting!"
-- Fee includes all materials, tools, instruction, lodging, meals, and other extras.
-- Program starts on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. and concludes on Wednesday by 11:30 a.m.
-- Lodging on Saturday or Wednesday evening available at additional cost.
-- Participation limited to 20 people.
-- $375.00 for everything.
-- Day rate is $295.00 and includes three lunches and Sunday dinner. Additional meals can be purchased as we go through the program.
-- You may send a $100.00 deposit to hold a space. The balance due will be collected upon arrival at the program.
-- Early-Bird Rate: if you pay in-full by March 1, 2005, you pay only $345.00 a savings of $30.00.
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Niles' teaching credits include the Augusta Heritage Workshops in Elkins, WV, (87-92), The Folk Music Institute (Finland) and the Sibelius Academy (Finland), Steve Kaufman's Mandolin Kamp 2002. He is the author of numerous mandolin instructional books and published/editted THE MANDOCRUCIAN'S DIGEST mandolin magazine from 1986-97.
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STANDARD MANDOLIN MAKING WORKSHOP with Don Kawalek
May 8-11, 2005
The Mandolin Making Workshop will provide each participant with a great opportunity to build his/her own musical instrument. This program, designed for beginner and advanced craftspersons, will occur over three-and-a-half days and feature:
-- Professional instruction from Don Kawalek, a seasoned instrument-maker and master builder with 28 years of experience.
-- The opportunity to build either a standard.
-- Special "techniques" workshops on inlaying, bending, and finishing.
The standard mandolin you will make will have the following attributes:
-- Flat top mandolin with an ebony fingerboard with a 13 7/8" scale with 20 frets.
-- Black walnut book matched sides and back.
-- Black walnut neck and an Engleman Spruce top.
-- Rosewood overlay peg head.
-- Induced arch X bracing pattern on the soundboard
-- Fee includes all materials, hardware (strings, tuning machines, tailpiece), instruction, lodging, meals, and other extras.
-- Program starts on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. and concludes on Wednesday by 2:00 p.m.
-- Lodging on Saturday or Wednesday evening available at additional cost.
-- Participation limited to 10 people.
-- $500.00 for the Mandolin and everything as described above.
-- Day rate is $420.00 and includes three lunches and Sunday dinner. Additional meals can be purchased as we go through the program.
-- You may send a $100.00 deposit to hold a space. The balance due will be collected upon arrival at the program.
-- Early-Bird Rate: if you pay in-full by April 1, 2005, you save $30.00 on the program.
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RHYTHM MANDOLIN BOOT CAMP with Niles Hokkanen
May 8-11, 2005
How are your rhythm/backup skills on the mandolin? When you consider that in many styles of music, you may be playing "rhythm" 80-90% of the time, doesn't it make sense to develop your rhythm-playing skills and vocabulary? Are deficiencies in this area hindering you in playing different genres of music?
Different musical styles (blues, rock, R&B, C&W, old-time, bluegrass, etc) have different rules about how the component instruments interact and how the music is constructed. An understanding of these basics is essential if one is to widen capabilities beyond one's primary genre.
Niles Hokkanen has spent half of his 30+ years on mandolin exploring and refining techniques for playing "rhythm mandolin", in a variety of styles, incorporating the functional rhythmic vocabulary from the instruments which dominate those respective styles. In his workshops, he shares the information he has absorbed and walks you through the fundamentals.
This program, designed for intermediate and advanced players, will occur over a solid three and a half days with at least 85 hours of instruction and feature:
-- "The Basic Principles of Groove"
-- Blues guitar, piano and organ riffs (for mando) and grooves
-- Funk voicings, strums, riffs
-- Walking 3-note Chords and Walking Doublestops (swing, r&b)
-- Chuck Berry style Rock & Roll Shuffle (and variations)
-- Rhythm guitar type strums (rock n roll derived)
-- Bass lines and harmonized bass lines
-- Extended and altered chords; chord substitution
-- Call & response, stop time
-- Right hand techniques, pick+fingers, muting.....
-- Pedal tones, drones for Celtic backup and/or "heavy metal"
-- Celtic style backup (lots of arpeggios and "implied melody")
-- Ideas/techinques borrowed from Cajun second fiddling
-- Intro to "Clawhammer mando" (emulates old-time frailing banjo)
-- And of course, some ideas on the "chop"
-- Fee includes all materials, tools, instruction, lodging, meals, and other extras.
-- Program starts on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. and concludes on Wednesday by 11:30 a.m.
-- Lodging on Saturday or Wednesday evening available at additional cost.
-- Participation limited to 20 people.
-- $375.00 for everything.
-- Day rate is $295.00 and includes three lunches and Sunday dinner. Additional meals can be purchased as we go through the program.
-- You may send a $100.00 deposit to hold a space. The balance due will be collected upon arrival at the program.
-- Early-Bird Rate: if you pay in-full by April 1, 2005, you pay only $345.00 - a savings of $30.00.
If you visit our website at www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/northern, you can find more information on the facilities and program as well as Registration Forms. You will also find links to and interview with Don, his homepage, and participant comments regarding Niles' workshops. When looking through the site, please keep in mind a $100.00 deposit will hold your space until you arrive for the program. And, unfortunately, we still cannot handle credit card payments, but just about any other form of payment works.
Thank you!
Lance Johnson and Adam Dove
OCTAVE MANDOLIN MAKING WORKSHOP with Don Kawalek
April 3-6, 2005
The Mandolin Making Workshop will provide each participant with a great opportunity to build his/her own musical instrument. This program, designed for beginner and advanced craftspersons, will occur over three-and-a-half days and feature:
-- Professional instruction from Don Kawalek, a seasoned instrument-maker and master builder with 28 years of experience.
-- The opportunity to build either a standard or octave mandolin.
-- Special "techniques" workshops on inlaying, bending, and finishing.
The octave mandolin you will make will have the following attributes:
-- Flat top mandolin with a 22.875scale length with a neck / body joint at the 14th fret.
-- A Pau Ferro/Morado fingerboard.
-- Black walnut book matched sides and back.
-- Black walnut neck with an adjustable truss rod and dovetail joint to allow for the use of binding and purfling.
-- An Engleman Spruce top.
-- Rosewood overlay peg head.
-- Induced arch X bracing pattern on the soundboard.
-- Fee includes all materials, hardware (strings, tuning machines, tailpiece), instruction, lodging, meals, and other extras.
-- Program starts on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. and concludes on Wednesday by 2:00 p.m.
-- Lodging on Saturday or Wednesday evening available at additional cost.
-- Participation limited to 10 people.
-- $525.00 for an Octave Mandolin and everything as described above.
-- Day rate is $455.00 and includes three lunches and Sunday dinner. Additional meals can be purchased as we go through the program.
-- You may send a $100.00 deposit to hold a space. The balance due will be collected upon arrival at the program.
-- Early-Bird Rate: if you pay in-full by March 1, 2005, you save $30.00 on the program fee.
-------------------------------
BEGINNER'S BLUEGRASS/OLD-TIME MANDOCRUCIAN BOOT CAMP with Niles Hokkanen
April 3-6, 2005
Three days of intensive mandolin instruction with one of the top mandolin teachers in the country! All students should already have six months of playing ability (chord structure, note knowledge) and should have an understanding of written tab for mandolin. Niles will use Southern U.S. tunes/songs as teaching vehicles. Skills and lessons taught include:
-- Improving or correcting your plectrum technique, developing good left-hand fretting habits, and synchronizing the hands for clean playing and tone. Fighting "deathgrip" tension with special stretches which loosen the wrists and with relaxation/breathing drills.
-- Starting to develop the Ear>Hand neural wiring with a proactive approach instead of by osmosis. Why wait until you can play fast(er) to start working on the "ear" when you can train both your fingers and ear simultaneously?
-- Learning HOW to "practice", taking any simple tune and turning it into a whole series of exercises which will expand your playing of those tunes as you increase your technical capabilities. Increasing your ability to "embellish" a simple tune or song melody, adding more notes into the flow.
-- Focusing on scales, arpeggios and the concept of "patternization" AND how to apply them to your playing. These are NOT just mechanical finger exercises if you understand possible applications. Yes, you will have to do your mechanical "pushups" and drills, but understanding WHY you want these in your arsenal is a real incentive to working on them.
-- Illustrating the application of ideas/concepts/techniques etc. While you will learn some new tunes (from various styles and countries), the emphasis is not on increasing your repertoire, but on this application. As one of his students has said, "Niles doesn't sell you fish, he sells you bait, a rod and tells you where they are biting!"
-- Fee includes all materials, tools, instruction, lodging, meals, and other extras.
-- Program starts on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. and concludes on Wednesday by 11:30 a.m.
-- Lodging on Saturday or Wednesday evening available at additional cost.
-- Participation limited to 20 people.
-- $375.00 for everything.
-- Day rate is $295.00 and includes three lunches and Sunday dinner. Additional meals can be purchased as we go through the program.
-- You may send a $100.00 deposit to hold a space. The balance due will be collected upon arrival at the program.
-- Early-Bird Rate: if you pay in-full by March 1, 2005, you pay only $345.00 a savings of $30.00.
- - - - - - - -
Niles' teaching credits include the Augusta Heritage Workshops in Elkins, WV, (87-92), The Folk Music Institute (Finland) and the Sibelius Academy (Finland), Steve Kaufman's Mandolin Kamp 2002. He is the author of numerous mandolin instructional books and published/editted THE MANDOCRUCIAN'S DIGEST mandolin magazine from 1986-97.
----------------------------------------------------
STANDARD MANDOLIN MAKING WORKSHOP with Don Kawalek
May 8-11, 2005
The Mandolin Making Workshop will provide each participant with a great opportunity to build his/her own musical instrument. This program, designed for beginner and advanced craftspersons, will occur over three-and-a-half days and feature:
-- Professional instruction from Don Kawalek, a seasoned instrument-maker and master builder with 28 years of experience.
-- The opportunity to build either a standard.
-- Special "techniques" workshops on inlaying, bending, and finishing.
The standard mandolin you will make will have the following attributes:
-- Flat top mandolin with an ebony fingerboard with a 13 7/8" scale with 20 frets.
-- Black walnut book matched sides and back.
-- Black walnut neck and an Engleman Spruce top.
-- Rosewood overlay peg head.
-- Induced arch X bracing pattern on the soundboard
-- Fee includes all materials, hardware (strings, tuning machines, tailpiece), instruction, lodging, meals, and other extras.
-- Program starts on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. and concludes on Wednesday by 2:00 p.m.
-- Lodging on Saturday or Wednesday evening available at additional cost.
-- Participation limited to 10 people.
-- $500.00 for the Mandolin and everything as described above.
-- Day rate is $420.00 and includes three lunches and Sunday dinner. Additional meals can be purchased as we go through the program.
-- You may send a $100.00 deposit to hold a space. The balance due will be collected upon arrival at the program.
-- Early-Bird Rate: if you pay in-full by April 1, 2005, you save $30.00 on the program.
---------------------------------------------------
RHYTHM MANDOLIN BOOT CAMP with Niles Hokkanen
May 8-11, 2005
How are your rhythm/backup skills on the mandolin? When you consider that in many styles of music, you may be playing "rhythm" 80-90% of the time, doesn't it make sense to develop your rhythm-playing skills and vocabulary? Are deficiencies in this area hindering you in playing different genres of music?
Different musical styles (blues, rock, R&B, C&W, old-time, bluegrass, etc) have different rules about how the component instruments interact and how the music is constructed. An understanding of these basics is essential if one is to widen capabilities beyond one's primary genre.
Niles Hokkanen has spent half of his 30+ years on mandolin exploring and refining techniques for playing "rhythm mandolin", in a variety of styles, incorporating the functional rhythmic vocabulary from the instruments which dominate those respective styles. In his workshops, he shares the information he has absorbed and walks you through the fundamentals.
This program, designed for intermediate and advanced players, will occur over a solid three and a half days with at least 85 hours of instruction and feature:
-- "The Basic Principles of Groove"
-- Blues guitar, piano and organ riffs (for mando) and grooves
-- Funk voicings, strums, riffs
-- Walking 3-note Chords and Walking Doublestops (swing, r&b)
-- Chuck Berry style Rock & Roll Shuffle (and variations)
-- Rhythm guitar type strums (rock n roll derived)
-- Bass lines and harmonized bass lines
-- Extended and altered chords; chord substitution
-- Call & response, stop time
-- Right hand techniques, pick+fingers, muting.....
-- Pedal tones, drones for Celtic backup and/or "heavy metal"
-- Celtic style backup (lots of arpeggios and "implied melody")
-- Ideas/techinques borrowed from Cajun second fiddling
-- Intro to "Clawhammer mando" (emulates old-time frailing banjo)
-- And of course, some ideas on the "chop"
-- Fee includes all materials, tools, instruction, lodging, meals, and other extras.
-- Program starts on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. and concludes on Wednesday by 11:30 a.m.
-- Lodging on Saturday or Wednesday evening available at additional cost.
-- Participation limited to 20 people.
-- $375.00 for everything.
-- Day rate is $295.00 and includes three lunches and Sunday dinner. Additional meals can be purchased as we go through the program.
-- You may send a $100.00 deposit to hold a space. The balance due will be collected upon arrival at the program.
-- Early-Bird Rate: if you pay in-full by April 1, 2005, you pay only $345.00 - a savings of $30.00.
If you visit our website at www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/northern, you can find more information on the facilities and program as well as Registration Forms. You will also find links to and interview with Don, his homepage, and participant comments regarding Niles' workshops. When looking through the site, please keep in mind a $100.00 deposit will hold your space until you arrive for the program. And, unfortunately, we still cannot handle credit card payments, but just about any other form of payment works.
Thank you!
Lance Johnson and Adam Dove