January 22, 2021

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, January 24 at 2 p.m.

We'll be at the usual place at the usual time and we hope you will too!

Carl will be Coaching, with Ed Hosting.


Randy Lewis Brown is an award winning songwriter and artist. He based out of East Texas. He is a philosophical songwriter. "I love good stories, stories that make me think, that stick with me and haunt me.”

His songs make you stop and go, "Hmmm?" He has a new album Red Crow. Doing very well on the folk radio charts in the USA and Europe. He will share his songwriting techniques. Here is a link to all you want to know about Randy Lewis Brown.

https://randylewisbrown.com

Latest release and review

Here's how to get to the workshop:

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457975628?pwd=WVlYelhqbVQ0djh2SUdQNTh0eDRvUT09

Meeting ID: 834 5797 5628

Password: 228275

January 17, 2021

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, January 17 at 2 p.m.

We'll be at the usual place at the usual time and we hope you will too!

Chris will be Coaching, with Trish Hosting.

We'll do the next Short Take, Arpeggios II.

More favorite songs!

If you have a request, e-mail Chris here.


Here's how to get to the workshop:

Click on this link or paste it into your browser:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457975628?pwd=WVlYelhqbVQ0djh2SUdQNTh0eDRvUT09

Meeting ID: 834 5797 5628

Password: 228275

Optimizing sound on Zoom

Click here for some good info about how to make your music sound better to other participants.

January 8, 2021

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, January 10 at 2 p.m.

We'll be at the usual place at the usual time and we hope you will too!

Robert will be Coaching, with Ed Hosting.

We’ll focus on “covers”. Robert will be going around the room to call on participants to play a cover that they like and then talk about what they like about the song and what made them want to learn it.

As an alternative to playing the song live, we’ll try to offer the option of pulling it up on YouTube to share with the group.

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Click on this link or paste it into your browser:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457975628?pwd=WVlYelhqbVQ0djh2SUdQNTh0eDRvUT09

Meeting ID: 834 5797 5628

Password: 228275

Optimizing sound on Zoom

Click here for some good info about how to make your music sound better to other participants.

December 26, 2020

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, December 27 at 2 p.m.

We'll be at the usual place at the usual time and we hope you will too!

Sean will be Coaching, with Chris Hosting.

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Click on this link or paste it into your browser:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457975628?pwd=WVlYelhqbVQ0djh2SUdQNTh0eDRvUT09

Meeting ID: 834 5797 5628

Password: 228275

Reminder: We won't be meeting on January 3. Workshops will resume on Sunday, January 10.

Good works on behalf of veterans

GreenCorps is a twelve week career training program for military veterans interested in wildfire landscape management, wildland firefighting and other natural resource management and public lands careers. More information can be found at https://mtadamsinstitute.org/vetswork-environment-internships/.

Can I get to the workshop if I miss (or delete) the Reminder?

You bet! Visit our web page https://www.ssvpdx.org/ and click on News. The link will be in the latest posting.

You can also visit our Facebook page @SSVPDX and open the latest posting there. It will send you to our web site.

We recommend you bookmark our web page for quick access.

December 19, 2020

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, December 20 at 2 p.m.

We'll be at the usual place at the usual time and we hope you will too!

Chris will be Coaching, with Ed Hosting.


We will be training our ears again this week. If you have recently joined our Sunday gatherings, the previous lessons in the Short Takes series are available for viewing here.


It may be worth a few minutes of your time to explore what we're up to with this series. This is not a deep dive into music theory; we've tried to make it just enough to help you play well with others.


Here's how to get to the workshop:

Click on this link or paste it into your browser:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457975628?pwd=WVlYelhqbVQ0djh2SUdQNTh0eDRvUT09

Meeting ID: 834 5797 5628

Password: 228275

Good works on behalf of veterans

GreenCorps is a twelve week career training program for military veterans interested in wildfire landscape management, wildland firefighting and other natural resource management and public lands careers. More information can be found at https://mtadamsinstitute.org/vetswork-environment-internships/.

Can I get to the workshop if I miss (or delete) the Reminder?

You bet! Visit our web page https://www.ssvpdx.org/ and click on News. The link will be in the latest posting.

You can also visit our Facebook page @SSVPDX and open the latest posting there. It will send you to our web site.

We recommend you bookmark our web page for quick access.

December 11, 2020

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, December 13 at 2 p.m.

We'll be at the usual place at the usual time and we hope you will too!

Carl will be Coaching, with Trish Hosting.


Jon Lee returns as Guest Coach. Here's what he wants us to share:

"Pick a Beatles song you like and relate to. Try to learn it. Bring in lead sheet with lyrics and chords. If it’s a hard one, that’s fine. We’ll just take them one at a time and break them down musically and lyrically, see what we can learn about songwriting and bring it to our own songwriting."

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Click on this link or paste it into your browser:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457975628?pwd=WVlYelhqbVQ0djh2SUdQNTh0eDRvUT09

Meeting ID: 834 5797 5628

Password: 228275

November 21, 2020

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, November 22 at 2 p.m.

We'll be at the usual place at the usual time and we hope you will too!

Carl will be Coaching, with Trish Hosting,

and we'll be joined by master topical-song writer Bill Valenti.

Bill will be showing us some altered tunings. Click here for a chart that shows one of them.


Here's how to get to the workshop:

Click on this link or paste it into your browser:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457975628?pwd=WVlYelhqbVQ0djh2SUdQNTh0eDRvUT09

Meeting ID: 834 5797 5628

Password: 228275

November 14, 2020

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, November 15 at 2 p.m.

We'll be at the usual place at the usual time and we hope you will too!

Chris will be Coaching, with Ed Hosting.

We'll share what we've been up to, creatively, in the last week.

We'll play and sing some songs together

And we'll explore the next Short Takes lesson, Scales II, in which we will go over to the dark side--the minor scales.

Here's how to get to the workshop:

Click on this link or paste it into your browser:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457975628?pwd=WVlYelhqbVQ0djh2SUdQNTh0eDRvUT09

Meeting ID: 834 5797 5628

Password: 228275

Can I get to the workshop if I miss the Reminder?

You bet! Visit our web page https://www.ssvpdx.org/ and click on News. The link will be in the latest posting.

You can also visit our Facebook page @SSVPDX and open the latest posting there. It will send you to our web site.

We recommend you bookmark our web page for quick access.

October 17, 2020

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, October 18 at 2 p.m.


We'll be at the usual place at the usual time and we hope you will too!
Sean will be Coaching, with Ed Hosting.

Sean wants to bring some Neil Young songs out:
Down by the River

Heart of Gold

Southern Man

Comes a Time

After the Gold Rush

Old Man
We can get a general idea of the song and give the group some new chord progressions and songs to play.

And he has a some new songs to share... 
Selfish

Some Quiet

Down in the Earth

Here's how to get to the workshop
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83457975628?pwd=WVlYelhqbVQ0djh2SUdQNTh0eDRvUT09
Meeting ID: 834 5797 5628

Password: 228275

Don't forget to

VOTE!

From our SSV sisters and brothers in Texas:
Greetings!
We are proud to officially open the registration for our Reveille 'Virtual' Songwriting Retreat. We will conduct presentations and lectures over Zoom the week of Oct. 26-30th, everyday at 10:00am, 12:00pm, and 2:00pm, with additional one-on-one breakout sessions at 4:00pm and an evening open mic at 8:00pm. Once registered, we will send login details and daily schedules of presenters. Please help us get the word out to your local veteran communities by sharing the links below. Let me know if you need any additional information and we look forward to seeing you soon!

Registration Links:
https://reveilleretreat.comhttps://www.soldiersongsandvoices.com/reveille-workshop
Reveille Videos:
https://youtu.be/5c0J6CH2HXYhttps://vimeo.com/368402013