February 21, 2021

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, February 21 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 learn a new song that makes interesting use of major chords and their relative minor partners, Ready For The Times To Get Better.

Click here for a great YouTube.

Click here for the chart.

We'll build on what we've covered in scales, intervals, and arpeggios in our ongoing music theory series, SSV Short Takes with Chords II.

And, naturally, we'll share whatever is catching our creative attention these days.

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

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Thursday, March 11

Artichoke Community Music's Virtual Village

Host (and SSV Guest Coach) Jon Lee will feature veteran performers.

Click here to send us an e-mail to reserve a spot.

Save the Date!

Monday, March 22, 5 p.m.

SSV PDX will hold our annual meeting.

On Zoom, of course!

Stay tuned for the link.

February 12, 2021

Here's what will be happening on Sunday, February 14 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.

Here is Carl's plan for this Sunday:

Vocabulary - Synonyms

How to expand descriptive language in verse and chorus.

Here are five basic words that you might use in a song.

Can you write a line with a synonym for each of the listed words that helps you build a clear picture for the song?

Do not use these 5 words in the sentences or the song. Create alternate words that have similar meanings to use in a free write or a song. Another way to show meanings.

1. Road

2. Love

3. Blue

4. Grave

5. Happy

Rhyme Schemes

ABAB- 1&3/2&4 rhyme

XAXA - 2&4 rhyme 1& 3 do not rhyme.

AABB - 1&2 rhyme, 3&4 rhyme

AAAA - all lines rhyme

What have you used? Song examples...

Share new works

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

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!

Optimizing sound on Zoom

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

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:

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

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