Guitar | Chris Haddox | Intermediate/Advanced | Period 1 | Week 1 (July 7-12, 2024)
This class will be faster-paced than the beginner class, with students expected to be able to change chords with confidence, and to be able to get your eyes off the written page. We will learn how to connect chords with simple licks and fills on the guitar, how to play a song in different positions using and not using capos, and how to think about creating simple/effective lead lines where appropriate. My teaching style is high energy, but not overbearing. You’ll get a good dose of my silly humor, but don’t be fooled…I expect a lot from you and will offer a lot in return! I’ll be leading an afternoon jam, as well, where you’ll have the opportunity to incorporate some of the things we cover in class in a jam setting.
About the Instructor
Chris Haddox is a Logan, West Virginia born and raised songwriter/singer/multi-instrumentalist who is now based or of Morgantown, West Virginia. He writes and sings his voluminous collection of songs about (to quote him) “religion, firearms, courthouse squares, goats on trampolines, shoes, fiddles, and hurricanes”—whatever catches his eye. He deftly combines humor, sarcasm, and blunt honesty to create songs that are accessible and relatable to a wide variety of audiences.
When not playing music, Chris is a community leader who has directed Habitat for Humanity, worked to preserve old neighborhoods, a WVU professor of sustainable design, and an amateur musicologist who researches musicians from the southern coalfields of West Virginia.
Chris released his first album on March 25, 2022 at the age of 61. By April it had climbed to #11 on the Folk Alliance International chart, with all tracks from the album receiving steady airplay on 60 or so stations across the U.S., and a few further afield.