KARL STRAUB GENRE MIXING WORKSHOP

March 22, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
NOVA Music Center
KARL STRAUB GUITAR WORKSHOP
"HOW I LEARNED TO PLAY ROCK AND ROLL, PUNK, ROCKABILLY, COUNTRY, JAZZ, BLUES, CLASSICAL, WESTERN SWING, BLUEGRASS, AND FOLK GUITAR, AND LIVED TO TALK ABOUT IT"



(NOTE- this short clip is a sample of what you can expect at the workshop. The first piece is in a Danny Gatton rockabilly style, the second is a flatpicking instrumental, and the third is a Bach-like sketch. They all use the same basic chord progression in the key of G. At the workshop, Karl will talk about how to find connections between styles, and how to mix them together in any way you want.)
(video should be fixed now, but if you can't get it to play please email me at karlstraub@hotmail.com)

Guitarist and Music Educator Karl Straub has led a checkered career. He has played many different styles professionally and spent more than thirty years studying the connections between different musical genres. Karl has shoehorned Monkees guitar licks into Thelonious Monk pieces, watched his audience slam dance to pop songs written when Jimi Hendrix's parents were young, and played Yardbirds fuzztone guitar while being pelted with enough fake blood, glitter, and chicken bones to stop his wah-wah pedal from working.

This workshop is partly a history of American guitar styles, and partly a master class on how to mix these styles together. Straub will talk about how slight adjustments to your playing can take you from psychedelic rock to blues to country to jazz faster than a Lady Gaga costume change.

Karl Straub has a Music Education degree, and almost 30 years professionally performing, recording, and writing. His songs have been recorded by numerous local artists, and he has played guitar with Last Train Home, Eric Brace, the Grandsons, the Graverobbers, the Kennedys, Little Pink, and Exit 10.



NOVA Music Center
12704 Chapel Rd
Clifton, VA 20124

703-830-7141