Jim Jeans will be back this Saturday, April 19, to lead this free Ukulele Left Hand Techniques Workshop, at 3p.m.! In this uke clinic, he’ll focus on left hand techniques, including showing you to how to do chord inversions, which will open the whole fretboard to you and enable you to add a little something more to any song. This hands-on workshop is open to … Continue reading Free Clinic – Ukulele Left Hand Techniques 4/19
We’re excited to have our own (and Midday Ramblers’) Mike Horan lead this great Bluegrass clinic, PT 2 Playing Dynamic Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar, on Saturday, April 12 at 1PM. Mike will have help from friend and bandmate Leo Posch on banjo too! Mike will be going over some bluegrass essentials that will make your playing really sing like ‘bluegrass punctuation, the G run, rest strokes, … Continue reading Free Clinic: PT 2 Playing Dynamic Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar 4/12!
Just get your first guitar? Not sure where to begin? Join us on Saturday, April 5 for a free workshop open to all beginners – acoustic and electric. Esteemed Lawrence guitarist and instructor at the Guitar Studio, Bill Crahan, will be showing folks the very basics. Holding the guitar, to use a pick or not, a couple basic chords to get you going and more. … Continue reading Free Workshop 4/5: First Guitar Lesson
Our owner, Antiques Roadshow veteran and vintage guitar expert, Jim Baggett will be leading this special Vintage Guitars of the Past & Future clinic on Saturday, March 29 at 1pm. Jim will have several of his favorite vintage guitars on hand for you to play and check out, and we invite you to bring your guitars if you’d like to know more about them and/or … Continue reading Free Workshop Sat. 3/29: Vintage Guitars of the Past & Future
Eric Mardis of Split Lip Rayfield leads this unique banjo clinic on Saturday, March 22 at 3PM. Leaving tradition aside, Eric will take folks through some of his unusual banjo influences and trick bag, and look at the non-traditional, hi-octane banjo styles of Split Lip. Split Lip’s gas tank bass player, Jeff Eaton, will be on hand too. Bring your banjo and questions but leave … Continue reading Free Workshop Sat. March 22: Playing Banjo Wrong
We’re excited to have John Dillard lead our Open Bluegrass Jam ‘workshop’ this Saturday, March 15 at 1PM! This will be a lot of fun for folks of all playing levels, so bring your guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, uke – whatever floats your boat. There won’t be any technical instruction, we’re just going to play and have a great time. This will be a standard … Continue reading Free Workshop Sat. March 15: Open Bluegrass Jam 1PM
Take your playing to the next level with the first of a two part series of workshops on the ukulele. It’s free, and held here at Mass Street Music on Saturday, March 8 at 3pm. Jim Jeans will be leading this workshop – concentrating on the right hand. Players of all levels will benefit from easy ways to spice up your playing with a variety … Continue reading Free Uke Workshop Sat. March 8: Ukulele Right Hand Techniques
Just a reminder that we’ll be in Kansas City on Thursday, Friday and Saturday Feb. 20-22 at the International Folk Alliance Conference at the Sheraton Crown Center & the Westin at Crown Center. If you’re there, stop by our table in the Exhibition Hall at the Westin – we’ll be on hand 3pm-6pm Thursday – Saturday. The conference is in two sections – the Conference … Continue reading Mass Street Music at the Folk Alliance Conference this week
Join us on Saturday, March 1 at 3PM for our free workshop: Playing Dynamic Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar! Tired of feeling like rhythm guitar is boring and one-dimensional compared to lead guitar? This great workshop will explore the depth and possibilities of rhythm guitar in a bluegrass context. Led by Mike Horan, guitarist for the Midday Ramblers and Repair Shop Manager at Mass St Music, this … Continue reading Free Workshop March 1: Playing Dynamic Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar
Join us every Saturday for our Free Workshop Series. We’ll be doing everything from demystifying big topics to in depth run-throughs of some of our favorite gear and pedals – we’ll even have a few open jam playing sessions from time to time. Workshops are at 1PM or 3PM as noted (we don’t want you to miss any KU games!). Have an idea for a … Continue reading Free Workshops for January & February!
