February 5, 2021

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, February 7 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 Chris Hosting.

Here is Robert's 2-part plan for this Sunday:

Part 1: all participants should select 2-4 lines from Amanda Gorman’s poem, recited at the 1/20/2021 Presidential Inauguration ceremony. Share the lines and tell what you liked about them, from the standpoint of appreciating the art of poetry. (You might want to have 2 or 3 sets of lines selected, to lessen the chance of duplication during the discussion.) Here is a link to the video and printout of the poem:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html

Part 2: Share, share, share! Continuing on from last week’s sharing of live music (inspired by Neil Young), everyone should come with some thing to share...a song, a poem, an anecdote, etc. (No focus on any certain songwriter or theme.) We need to hear your joyful voices!

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

Thanks for being there and see you soon!

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January 30, 2021

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, January 31 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 Trish Hosting.

Sean will present the next installment of our Masters series. Bring a Neil Young song to share or story to tell. If you don't already have one, then learn one.

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:

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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.