Alphabet City Music Workshops

Improve your playing, songwriting and understanding of your instrument with a few basic theory concepts.

• Rhythm:  Don’t get stuck using the same strumming patterns.
• Fretboard: Find the notes in your melody on the fretboard. Doing this will help you see/hear the relationship of your melody to chords.
• Chords: What chords are available to you in a key?

Improve your songwriting and ability to communicate with other musicians. New and useful skills every step of the way.

• Music Basics for Beginners:  Start from scratch. Learn to read and write music notation, intro to understanding keys, creating basic chords and more!
• Music Basics Two: Learn more about chords in a key. Add to your knowledge of rhythm and song form. Short, creative assignments and more practice putting your music into chart form for other musicians to read.

• Songwriting
• Music Theory
• Guitar
• Piano
• Manhattan /  online