Abby loves performing in your community & offering classes/outreach to schools, churches, community centers, and beyond…

“Start with your feelings”

A songwriting workshop where we begin with a meditation and a do a check in.  We will then go around and chat a briefly about some emotion words that came to the surface, and we will write them down.  That is where we will start building our own unique song together as a group.  We will gather information from our own meditation and decide if it is an uplifting song, somber song, hopeful etc.

We will then start with creating our chorus as a group, and we will all participate in singing and creating the piece.

 

“Guitar lessons can be fun”

Bring your guitars and let’s learn some new chords together.  It doesn’t matter how long you have been playing.  You could be a guitar pro, or you could have never picked up the instrument before.  Lets dive into the beautiful, mysterious world of the 6-stringed beast itself.

 

“We need the rules so we can break them”

In this class we will learn the basic rules of music theory, starting with the circle of 5ths, and learning about which chords go together.  We will also talk about basic song structure and rhyme-schemes.  After we understand some basic rules, we will “properly” BREAK THEM…

when it comes to chords/song form/fake rhymes—there are right ways to break the rules and there are approaches that can cause “dissonance.”

Just like learning how to paint…there are certain colors that go well together, and certain colors that become muddy.  The same thing applies to music/building a song.