Have you always improvised little tunes and songs or would you like to learn how? Topics of focus students can choose include:

• for non-music readers: notating the music you write and hear in guitar TAB -writing and reading pop, country, rock , metal and jazz common charts for musicians
• AABA and other common pop and rock song forms -how to approach

Have you always improvised little tunes and songs or would you like to learn how? Topics of focus students can choose include:

• for non-music readers: notating the music you write and hear in guitar TAB -writing and reading pop, country, rock , metal and jazz common charts for musicians
• AABA and other common pop and rock song forms -how to approach lyrics
• I IV V chord progressions and chords, comping, rhythm guitar -lead guitar, soloing, playing in bands coaching -beginners rock, pop, indie, jazz and blues progressions -soloing and the pentatonic scale -understanding rhythms for reading and or hiphop writing -modal approaches -common chords and extensions -ear-training -handwritten notation -extended notation -orchestration -introduction to multi-tracking

Kerilie McDowall studied music composition for several years at York University with late New Music composer James Tenney and has studied jazz composition in New York City with recording artists Kenny Werner, Ritchie Beirach, and John Abercrombie. Kerilie's jazz guitar studies included study with instructors Ben Monder, Rob Piltch, Ted Quinlan, Oliver Gannon and Pat Coleman. She studied Classical guitar under famed Toronto instructor Eli Kassner, instructor to Liona Boyd and Lenny Breau. She began performing professionally as a pop guitarist in high school. Kerilie started music playing toy pianos and recorder, then studied as a violinist from age 8-16. She gave up the violin and began playing the guitar, learning folk and pop, and played in her first blues band at age 16, while attending music jams in Toronto at a young age.

Price $349.99 CAD suscriber rate $315.00.