SPRING - GROUP Intermediate Guitar 201 with Kevin Rush
Level: Adult Intermediate
Starting: Mar 10, 2025
Duration: 8 weeks
Date/Time: Mondays, 7:00–7:50pm
Location: Friendly Community Room
Instructor: Kevin Rush
The Friendly intermediate guitar class brings people together who already have basic guitar and musicianship skills in a fun social setting. The focus of the class is on using basic open chords, introducing basic barre chords, playing melody notes, and strumming patterns with the guitar.
This will be done by playing basic mainstream songs covering Rock, Pop and Folk of bands of the 1950's through the 1980’s. Course will include very basic ear training and an introduction to basic musical theory and concepts to help students understand why songs sound like they do.
Kevin Rush Bio: Kevin Rush is a guitarist and native Chicagoan living in the south suburbs. Kevin currently plays with the Gypsy Jazz group The New Deal, and with the original rock group The Stray Toasters. Kevin is featured on The Stray Toasters 4th and 5th records, Let Go My Ego and 5 Things as well as on LePercolateur’s debut record Pop Manouche.
Kevin began playing guitar at the age of 13. Influenced originally by rock and roll guitar greats, Beck, Page and Hendrix at an early age, he quickly became aware of other styles: classical with Andres Segovia, blues via the 3 Kings, and ultimately jazz with Django Reinhardt and Les Paul. Kevin played in various bands throughout High School and College and studied Classical Guitar and Music Theory at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
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