Guitar | Joy Louise | Beginning | Period 1 | Week 2 (July 13-18, 2025)
This class is designed for anyone with an acoustic guitar who is brand new to bluegrass!
What makes bluegrass guitar so special? We’ll explore that as Joy guides you through the essential techniques and feel to get you started on the right foot. This class emphasizes developing a strong, solid, and rhythmically focused foundation. We’ll learn as a group and play tunes together each class, focusing on rhythm as the “engine” that drives bluegrass. And of course discover just how cool bluegrass guitar is!
Topics will include:
- Technique: How to get solid right hand and left hand technique.
- Good Practice Routines: How to make the most of your practice time.
- Basic Metronome Work: Developing solid timing.Ear Training: Learning to listen and play what you hear.
You’ll need a guitar, flatpick, and tuner for this class. While some basic chord knowledge is helpful, it’s not required. Complete beginners are welcome! Contact joylouisemusic@gmail with any questions about prerequisites.
About the Instructor
Award winning multi-instrumentalist Joy Louise, whose guitar playing was praised by critics as “…technically immaculate”, enjoys an active career as a collaborative band member and soloist. She made her solo debut at the age of three, often singing in front of large concert crowds in the American Southwest. Joy is a prodigious songwriter and teacher as well as a busy studio musician. Even as a teen, Joy won many flatpicking guitar contests, often competing against seasoned players two or three times her age. In high demand as a session musician in Los Angeles, she has also performed with artist including the Gatlin Brothers, Marty Raybon, and Randy Travis. Recent performances have taken her to Nashville, Tennessee; Salem, Oregon; and Long Island, New York.