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Halloween Edition!
Here's what will be happening on Sunday, October 30 at 2 p.m.
Sean will be Coaching, with Ed Hosting.
Anybody got a song praising candy corn? There should be one...
Here's how to get to the workshop:
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09
Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684
Passcode: 939440
Next week Carl will be Coaching with Trish Hosting!
Here's what will be happening on Sunday, October 23 at 2 p.m.
Carl will be Coaching
Here's how to get to the workshop:
In-person:
Artichoke Community Music
2007 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR 97202
Map
Please note our host, Artichoke Community Music's current policy: "We are no longer requiring proof of Covid-19 vaccination and have relaxed to a mask-optional policy for all events, while in the store or the cafe."
Remotely, via Zoom:
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09
Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684
Passcode: 939440
Next week: Halloween shenanigans!
Here's what will be happening on Sunday, October 16 at 2 p.m.
Carl will be Coaching, with Trish Hosting.
(Hey, how 'bout Trish's solo event last week!?!)
“One tune with many random verses equals a new song.”
Everyone lets write a song! Write a four line verse about anything. Sing it to
This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie.
Bearing in mind, of course, that the tune is the Carter Family's Little Darlin' Pal of Mine.
Woody Guthrie-This Land Is Your Land
We will put it all together and see what song we can create.
Then we will play songs and or ask for feedback on a song you need help with finishing or a question.
Here's how to get to the workshop:
Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09
Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684
Passcode: 939440
Live at Artichoke next week!
Here's what will be happening on Sunday, October 9 at 2 p.m.
Trish will Host our Zoom Song Circle.
Bring songs, your guitar, and your ear trumpet!
Here's how to get to the workshop:
Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09
Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684
Passcode: 939440
Carl will be Coaching next week!
Here's what will be happening on Sunday, October 2 at 2 p.m.
Sean will be Coaching, with Ed Hosting.
Sean has a way with songs. It will, without a doubt, be fun!
Here's how to get to the workshop:
Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09
Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684
Passcode: 939440
Song Circle next week!
Here's what will be happening on Sunday, September 18 at 2 p.m.
Carl will be Coaching, with Ed Hosting.
Let's talk and play Bob Dylan Songs.
Here is an alphabetical listing of Bob Dylan songs:
https://bob-dylan.org.uk/dylan-songs-reviewed-on-this-site
1. Do you play any Bob Dylan songs? Which ones? Or not? Why?
2. If you like Bob Dylan songs? What do you like about his songs?
3. Can you play a Dylan song on Sunday?
4. Have you stolen from Bob Dylan for your own songs? Would you play them.
Here are two more links:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-bob-dylan-songs-65159/things-have-changed-2000-141833/
https://dylanchords.info
Here's how to get to the workshop:
Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09
Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684
Passcode: 939440
Song Circle next week!
Here's what will be happening on Sunday, September 11 at 2 p.m.
Sean will be Coaching.
I am bringing some songs
to play. These are located in the SSV Songs Drive.
They are linked to the site from this email.
Print them out if you can. If not, I will bring some copies
to share/handout.
I'm not sure how many we will get through, but we can
see how it goes....
Hope to see all your friendly faces on Zoom on Sunday!
Cat Stevens
Father and Son
Miles from Nowhere
Where do the Children Play
Wild World
Neil Young
The Needle and the Damage Done
Ohio
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
Mother
David Bowie
Space Oddity
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
Here's how to get to the workshop:
Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09
Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684
Passcode: 939440
Carl will be Coaching next week!
We'll be dark for the holiday weekend.
We'll be back on Zoom on September 11. See you then!
Here's what will be happening on Sunday, August 28 at 2 p.m.
Carl will be Coaching.
I. Songs: Writing from the Heart.
Telling the story/song through emotions.
What inspired the song ? What does it feel like?
Where are the emotions?
Just The PROSODY?
A. Father and Sun Yusef/ Cat Stevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6zaCV4niKk
B. Romeo and Juliet Mark Knopfler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3_HTGdLXL4&list=RD2ojU2T_U7Bk&index=4
C. Lodi. Jeffrey Foucault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkl5otIN9OU
II. Verses how many is too many? how many is not enough?
III. Playing playing playing songs.
Here's how to get to the workshop:
Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09
Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684
Passcode: 939440
No session next week! SSV salutes the workers of the world!
Here's what will be happening on Sunday, August 7 at 2 p.m.
Carl will be Coaching.
Let’s Talk Country
Have you written a country song?( or religious). Bring your country songs you have written or you just love to play. Why? What?
“ In country music certain themes keep reoccurring. These themes must be treated unpretentiously and honestly. Your job as a country writer will be to dramatize blue-collar problems in a vividly down to earth way, rather than romanticize and falsify them.” Country music is simple. They are based in reality. Follows a Rhyme pattern.
Book: Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn,
If They Ask You, You Can Write a Song 1979.
Here are some classic country songs:
1.Coal Miners Daughter- Lorretta Lynn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8lchkhrxcE
2. Love Hurts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUr9X3mic_U
3. King of the Road- Roger Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUr9X3mic_U
4. Your Cheatin Heart - Hank Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tiGG45ge9g
5. I saw the Light- Hank Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtolv9kM1qk
Some Country Prompts:
a. The Daily Grind
b. The water is gone
c. Seven days a week
d. Every night alone
e. Dogs never lie
Here's how to get to the workshop:
Please note that we have changed our Zoom account. This is a new link. To avoid confusion, if you have our old link saved anywhere, be sure to delete it!
Click on this link or paste it into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82787694684?pwd=dmJWemxOckJET29mdCtJQjc3Ry8yZz09
Meeting ID: 827 8769 4684
Passcode: 939440
Bill Valenti will be Coaching next week!
