➜ Asynchronous option still available -– See below
✔️ If you want more confidence on your instrument
✔️ If your songwriting and performance need a boost
everything we'll cover in this online course
Week 1: Rhythm 101 - Subdivisions, working with a metronome, internalizing a pulse, time signatures, recording yourself, how all of these can affect your strumming patterns.
Week 2: Using A Pick - Why you should, how to hold, relaxing your wrist, improving precision, low and high picking “zones”, anchoring your hand, specific songs for working on all of the above.
Week 3: Strumming - Breaking out of your rhythmic ruts, strumming pattern analysis (what are the subdivisions), intro to new patterns, tools for creating new patterns, the power of repetition.
Week 4: Texturing - Muting, dynamics, hammer-ons and pull-offs, percussive playing, using all of these as tools to create variety, tension and “sectional contrast”.
Week 5: Independence - Separating the rhythm of your strumming hand from the rhythm you're singing, isolating your strumming so you can work on the rhythm without worrying about the chords.
➞ Register at: jj@empowerdrumming.com
Class is limited to 8 students. Cost is $295. Sessions are 90 min over Zoom, every Weds at 6pm MT, starting March 22nd. Enrollment includes an online portal containing handouts, chord charts, MP3s, song player w slow-downer, and a practice log. A Zoom recording will be available after every session.
“I absolutely loved and totally recommend JJ's Right Hand Bootcamp. I am already writing songs in a new and refreshing way. JJ uses a great blend of teaching modalities, class participation, and because it is on Zoom if I missed a class I could go back and watch it later which is super convenient. Totally worth the time and money to be able to add more colors and texture to my songwriting palette. Thank you, JJ!” - Terri C.
“Absolutely inspiring! Helped me think about about my relationship to my guitar, rhythm, & my playing on a new level. JJ is artful, wise, specific, & encouraging in equal measure. I am a better player because I took JJ’s class!” - Nan C.
“JJ's class provided so many wonderful insights into ways to improve my guitar work by focusing on what my right hand can do. It was a worthwhile class with unique perspectives and methods.” - Barb R.
“I loved taking this right hand boot camp with JJ. I just adored her affable and inspiring teaching style. I had never really used a metronome until recently, and it has definitely helped to keep my brain engaged and changed my guitar practice in general. Absolutely, worth the time and money.” - Sky Y.