E-Tap Seminar 2025 : European Tap-guitar seminar
Independence with Daniel Schell and Kuno Wagner
The influence of Jim Lampi
Main Topic ‘We need Harmony’,
‘In depth dance’, The way our hands talk to our brain!
We shall concentrate on the creation of interesting harmonies. ! After all, this is our main subject! When we see keyboard players and how far they go, why don’t we do like them? . That will be our subject this year, arrange how our hands can collaborate.We shall also talk about ‘orchestration‘ , the way you you mix, solo, melodies, chords and bass. Emphasis shall also be made on phasing motives in each hand, a Schell speciality. We shall keep on harmony, advanced harmony in new music, chords, simple chords, four-notes chords on the Right hand, different basses, .Randy Strom shall be there for using interesting chords on Standard. Kai Kurosawa will come with new dierctions.
When: Monday June 30 to Sunday July 6, 2025
Big News: The schedule of E-Tap is now video and flexible, Follow E-Tap on Zoom and/or Skype
You can join the full Seminar or just attend the week days or week-end which you like. You can also follow E-Tap on video, by Skype or Zoom.
Where : Suxy (Chiny) Wallonia region
Organisers: www.clicmusic.be
The Teachers:
Daniel Schell (BE) in presence
KunoWagner in presence
Wolfgang Daiss in presence June 30
Online Master Classes Randy Strom, Kai Kurosawa
Topics of this 2025 session:
The influence of Jim Lampi (video classes) : Swing, energy, independence, chords building using extra modal notes,
Kuno Wagner: the world of guitars: Kono plays the full spectrum of guitars – , classical, electric, jazz, flamenco -, the tap-guitar ( 12 strings two regions, eight strings one ‘crafty’ region, mandoline and also … drums. His long experience as a teacher conducts him as the leader of many excellent group performances.
- Daniel Schell: ‘Independence, Motives and Harmony’
– General tapping techniques: fingering on various boards (including the guitar) and tunings ( 4ths, 5ths)
– Independence: Daniel will invetigate in depth the process of indpendence, the way our hands work and depend on our thinking. - Harmony: Traditional, jazz and new chord changes. We shall continue the chords studies which we started last year. and specially the four-notes chords we studied with Randy Strom
Watch the scores of “Spring Comes” and Blue E-Tap.
– Rhythmics: Even and uneven metrics: Using such meters as 4/4 , 5/8 and 7/8 and alternating them.
– Creating interesting rhythms and lines on those meters and others. This year we shall concentrate on producing interesting long improvisations using the phasing of independent motives, a subject which Daniel has implemented and played since many years.
– Multi motive improvisation: one different motive in each hand. - Randy Strom: Randy will teach on line three days online and correspond with the students. Everybody will be able to listen and play with him. His topic will be his own wonderful technique
- Other standards this year: Basic: Beautiful love, A Foggy Day Advanced : Lady Bird, Tune Up
- Kai Kurosawa: shall present a composition created by him, and how to use interesting techniques.
Suxy (Chiny) Wallonia
Belgium
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