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- How to create an effective concert:
Choosing songs for your set list, creating good, short, interesting song introductions, and making a good order for pacing. Understanding your audience and creating the right content and length for your concert. Onstage performance techniques. How to read your crowd and adjust in mid-concert. How to handle sound, lighting and audience difficulties.
- Music Publishing, Copyrights, and Licensing:
Learn how to copyright your music. Learn the legal requirements concerning the public use of others' music in your performances and/or in your recordings. This session will clear up the vast amount of misinformation that exists about the legal use of music and how to get permission to use or license it. Public performance and mechanical royalty structure will also be discussed. Bring your questions.
- Onstage miking and sound reinforcement for acoustic instruments:
Microphone techniques, audio gear choices, and stage setup for hammered & mountain dulcimers, guitar, banjo, fiddle, whistle/flute, bodhran and other percussion, and vocals.
- Using simple computer audio software to aid in practice and for learning new tunes. Learn how to record tunes as they play on the internet without downloading. Learn how to slow recordings down and preserve the pitch to simplify learning tunes and licks. This is for those who are not technically knowledgeable and don't want to be. Anyone can comprehend and use these techniques in just one session.
- Studio recording techniques for various acoustic instruments:
including the unique challenges of the hammered dulcimer; includes mic and gear choices. Learn how to professionally record your instrument including how to mic, what ambient room types are best for your instrument, what effects and signal processing enhance your instrument's voice and which ones diminish its transparency and tone.
- Producing your own CD start to finish:
Includes all aspects of producing and recording a professional quality, independent CD. Either a one session overview, or up to a week-long step-by-step course.
- Back-up Guitar:
Backing up the hammered dulcimer and other melodic acoustic instruments on guitar by using complimentary chords, leading patterns, and embellishments.
- Fingerstyle guitar:
Basic three finger roll right hand pattern and variations.
- History of Appalachian Folk Music and Its Cultural Context:
Where the various instruments came from, and what part they play in the music and society as a whole in Appalachia and other rural regions.
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