Sunday April 11, 2010, from 12pm-1:30pm
Mercer Island Community Center
Sean McGowan
We’re pleased to announce a clinic with Sean McGowan 12-2pm on Sunday 11 April 2010 @ the MICC [Mercer Island Community Center at Mercerview]. Fee is $20 SJGS members and $25 non-members payable at the door.
Sean McGowan is an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist in Denver CO. He is a full time professor at the University of Colorado Denver where he teaches jazz guitar and advanced improvisation. Sean also contributes lessons to Acoustic Guitar magazine.
Sean’s clinic will address a variety of harmonic concepts and extended techniques to create and arrange jazz standards for solo fingerstyle guitar. Techniques will include melodic phrasing, bass lines, voicings, playing multiple parts, harmonics and right-hand fretting.
For those who use a pick [plectrum] most of the time, here’s an opportunity to expand your musical vocabulary by exploring a different approach. For those who have “pumped nylon” and survived Sean will explore alternatives on his archtop. For everyone, this clinic is an opportunity to learn something new from an upcoming voice on our instrument.
Sean graduated with a DMA in Guitar Performance from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Music Performance at the University of Colorado Denver. Sean is a frequent lesson and article contributor for Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Teacher and Jazz Improv magazines. Be sure to check out his incredible playing on myspace and youtube.
Photos from the event …
Sean McGowan's Extended Technique
Sean McGowan's Extended Technique
This was a fun clinic. Sean laid out a really effective strategy for practicing and mastering the fretboard and chord voicings. He handed out a very complete transcription (notation+tab) of one of his arrangements. Then, just for fun, he walked us thru the Harmonic Major scale and his harmonization. His playing was amazing.
Don’t miss him when he comes back to Seattle.