Thursdays, 8:30-8:45 pm, beginning May 9
$120.00 advance / $130.00 after April 29
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Learn some easy and intermediate fingerpicking patterns, and learn how to get a big beautiful sound with minimum effort. Come and learn Travis style and other approaches to fingerpicking guitar in the styles of Dylan, Doc Watson, and Paul Simon. No previous experience with fingerpicking is required, but students should know a few basic chords. This is not really a class in Zen, but there are many parallels.

Joe Miller has performed at acoustic music festivals across the U S and Canada. He has studied with many music teachers, including classical guitarist Bill Trotter in Toronto, and sitarist Nikhil Banerjee. Over the last 30 years he has taught thousands of music students in the Bay Area, and played with David Grisman, Duck Baker, and Peppino D'Agostino.

A past winner of both the California State Flatpicking Championship and the National Fingerpicking Championship, he has released 2 CD's of instrumental music. His music is available from ITunes and CD Baby, and can be heard on Pandora.com.