This is not a tune learning weekend, focus will be on technique and style, giving you “tools for your toolbox” to take away and apply to your choice of tunes and music. Notation & recordings of the tunes will be provided during or after the event, however if the tutors feel that it will be beneficial for delegates to have this information before the weekend we will send it out by email a few weeks before the weekend. This is entirely at the tutors discretion.
The tutors will rotate to different teaching rooms, so that each group: Improvers, Intermediate and Accomplished; have one workshop module taught by each of the tutors. A workshop module is approximately 3 hours including a break. You will need your DG melodeon with you for the workshops.
The Beginners and Absolute Beginners workshops will run independently of this rotation for the whole weekend. If you need to borrow a DG melodeon for the duration of the workshop please indicate on the booking form. These melodeons will be on loan from our sponsor: Acorn Instruments.
Want to play melodeon but not sure how to start, or perhaps you’ve got your first melodeon but aren’t getting anywhere with it? These accessible workshops follow a proven step-by-step tutor system to get you off to a flying start. We’ll be using an intuitive tab system to find our way around the melodeon and no music reading ability is necessary. We’ll also focus on developing foundations of good technique, equipping you with essential tools to support your continued progress.
To ensure that you select the appropriate workshop for your playing ability please could you match your playing ability to the word models below, and indicate this on the booking form.