Shelley Fairplay Thursday Add-On
1pm-5pm
‘From Ordinary to Extraordinary’ Take a Simple Tune and Make it YOUR OWN!
Direct from Wales Shelly Fairplay will be In-Person at Somerset this July 20-23! Join Shelley In-Person or Online for her Thursday Add-On series of workshops and for her workshops during the festival. Add-On ($100) her Thursday workshops to your festival ticket. Can’t make it to the full festival? Join Shelly on Thursday as a Stand-Alone ticket ($175 Stand Alone).
Direct from Wales Shelley Fairplay joins us at Somerset. Spend Thursday of the festival with Shelley in this Add-On Full Day workshop.
‘From Ordinary to Extraordinary’
Take a Simple Tune and Make it YOUR OWN!
You can use these ideas when working from lead sheets, for improvisation, for arranging and for composing.
PART 1:Adding notes under the melody
Learning to take a melody line and adding harmony notes with the right hand under the tune can be started with some very simple guidelines to follow. In this session we will look at some ‘go to’ ideas and practice working them into tunes.
PART 2: Adding notes in between the melody.
Filling in the gaps and adding Extras. Taking a simple melody line and making it your own special arrangement.
PART 3: Creating Your Own Accompaniments – from the Sublime to the Ridiculous
In this session we see how many different ways to accompany a melody we possibly can in the time given!
PART 4: The proof is in the pudding!
In the final session we work on pulling together everything we have worked on to create your own unique version of a short tune.