ONLINE GUITAR WORKSHOPS – ENROLLING NOW

 Spring Session part 2 – May 12 – June 9

 

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Having seen Greg Ruby teach in person for years now, and then watching him teach online at one of my camps last year, confirmed in my mind and those who studied with him, that he is a wonderful educator. Greg is impressively organized, thorough, accessible… and he connects with enthusiasm, humility and humor.

– Joe Craven, director of Wintertunes and Rivertunes

The first time Greg Ruby taught at Django in June his classes were, by our standards, way overcrowded. I tried to tell the participants that others were much smaller and that they were welcome to switch. Nobody did.

-Andrew Lawrence, director of Django in June

Email from student 4 weeks into the Swing Guitar Workshop Series

Hi Greg,

I wanted to tell you how much I am enjoying your classes! You are a fantastic teacher. I love your enthusiasm, humor, and knowledge!  You’ve thoughtfully outlined what you want us to learn, and you then translate the roadmaps on the pages by explaining it so clearly. This is where I can get lost on my own!

 Although you move apace – I get the ideas and ultimately get close to manifesting the moves. It’s wonderful to have all these things to work on. “The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise” has been on my mind since the beginning of the pandemic. I’m so glad you included it in the course.

Good material, methodology, technique, theory, history, musicality, geometry and even algebra – you cover all of it without being overwhelming or tangental.

Thank you so much for doing this. I was really getting bogged down on my own – dying from overexposure to myself!

It’s just been so fun.

Peace,

Taffy

I have admired Greg Ruby’s musicality ever since I first saw him perform with Pearl Django more than two decades ago, and I have benefited tremendously from taking a series of week long swing guitar courses with him on two occasions. The first was a course on jazz guitar fundamentals, and I still work with the excellent resources he circulated as part of that course. In fact, the packet for that course remains the most useful jazz guitar primer that I own. The second course I took with Greg included a focus on the virtuosic playing of the Argentine maestro Oscar Aleman (1909-1980), and I’ll never forget the joy I felt as Greg walked the entire class of people through the mind-bending runs that kick off Aleman’s classic recording of “I Got Rhythm.” Newsflash alert: Those runs involve using your thumb to fret some bass notes, but fear not, Greg will show you what you’re capable of playing! A world class musician and an enthusiastic teacher, Greg Ruby is an ideal guitar instructor for jazz beginners and accomplished players alike.

Jeffrey A. Keith, Ph.D., Professor of Global Studies, Warren Wilson College