Tijn Berends will be online with a bouzouki workshop soon. Here's some info from the website of Tune Supply:
The bouzouki is a highly versatile instrument, suitable for energetic, rhythmic backing, for subtle counterpoint, and even for melody. Good backing is sculpted to the contours of the rest of the music, adding energy to lift up the tune, leaving room where it is needed, and generally building a framework for the melody instruments to latch on to. In this workshop, we’ll use a few pre-recorded tunes to hone our listening skills, identifying what kind of flow the tunes have, what twists and turns they suggest in the harmony, and where they call for accents, hops, and other funky ornaments. Instructor: Tijn Behrends Who's this for: Bouzouki Level: Intermediate Will this class be taught by ear, with sheet music, or both? Both Cost: Pay what it's worth to you. (The checkout page defaults to $25, but that's not the suggested price...choose what works for you. Thanks!) Video: Registered students will receive the class recording immediately after the class, so feel free to sign up even if you can't attend live.
About Tijn:
My name is Tijn Berends. For those lacking in Dutch fluency: 'Tijn' vaguely rhymes with 'tine' (the thing at the end of a fork). If you make it rhyme with 'pidgeon', I will do my best to smile through the tears. I started playing the harmonica some twenty years ago, but a bunch more instruments have accumulated in my house since then; a concertina (which to me is basically a harmonica with an artificial lung), and a big family of string instruments, the Irish bouzouki being their pater familias. I play trad music in different settings, ranging from the weekly sessions to a big, Riverdance-like theatre ensemble. I also compose my own tunes, which has the big advantage that I can invent my own names for them ('Bacon Pancakes Are The Most Tastiest Food In The Entire World' is one of my favourites, though the translation doesn't really do justice to the poetic Dutch original).
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