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Intermediate Blues Guitar

  • Intermediate
  • 21 and older
  • $2,495
  • 430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
  • 83 hours & 45 minutes over 6 sessions

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  • $2,495
  • Roosevelt University @ 430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
  • 83 hours & 45 minutes over 6 sessions
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Class Description

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What you'll learn in this guitar class:

At Chicago Blues Camp, we take advantage of every Blues musician, club, and festival this city has to offer to provide the ultimate authentic Blues experience – Chicago style. There will be no shortage of learning and jamming throughout your five days of pure electric, urban Chicago Blues.

Beginning Sunday noon, you will meet your fellow students and get an orientation to the camp facilities and week's schedule followed by your first class.

Taught by Chicago Blues professionals, our course offerings in guitar, bass and “harp” will teach you the classic Blues styles of Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Reed and Little Walter as well as contemporary developments by today’s artists. Whether the blues is in your blood or you’re looking to join the scene for the first time, you’ll fit right in. All skill sets are welcome.

In between classes, you will attend workshops on topics like singing the blues, lectures about the history and culture of the blues, and enjoy great meals created just for the campers.

The week-long camp session includes:
  • 22 hours of group instruction on your instrument
  • 12+ hours of jam sessions (ensemble)
  • Presentations on blues history, culture and development
  • Workshops in specific topics such as blues singing, slide guitar, etc.
  • Outings to famous Chicago Blues Clubs
  • Learning classic Chicago Blues Songs
  • Lodging for 6 days and 5 nights
All meals The fee for the 6 days is $2,495 and is all inclusive.
 
The ability to improvise and adapt to playing with other musicians is vital to learning the Chicago Blues. There are specific protocols and dynamics in jamming that every Blues performer should learn. Chicago Blues Camp instructors (who are all working Chicago Blues musicians) will teach you everything you need to know to jump into a jam with confidence. 

Then we’ll go out on the town together to see the Blues played live. Studded with world-famous Blues clubs, the Chicago Blues scene has it all. Each evening, we’ll go to one of these clubs to see for ourselves what Chicago Blues is all about. On Thursday night, students will play where the legends once stood, showing off what they’ve learned at a live show that will be professionally recorded and videotaped.

Intermediate Blues Guitar
  • Modal, 8 &12 bar progressions, variations
  • Major and minor blues forms
  • Boogies, shuffles, jumps, lumpty-lumps, rhumbas, stop time and other blues rhythms
  • Chord inversions, basic and advanced comping, rhythm riffs
  • Quarter, half and full note bends
  • Major and minor pentatonic, and blues scales

Refund Policy

A non-refundable deposit of $350 is required with each application. Deposits are applied toward your tuition. Deposits are non-transferable and non-refundable.

  • You may not transfer your camp registration to another person under any circumstance.
  • Notification of cancellation must be given in writing via email to [email protected] and received no later than 31 business days prior to the beginning of class.
  • If notice of cancellation is received prior to the due date, any tuition payments made in excess of the $350 deposit will be refunded.
  • Refunds will not be given for any reason after the due date (31 business days prior to the start of class).
In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

In the event that an instructor or the school needs to cancel at the last minute, students will receive a refund less a 5% non-refundable registration fee.

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Chicago Blues Camp

The Chicago Blues Camp offers you an exceptional experience to learn Chicago Blues that will enhance your understanding and abilities. Our Mission is to be the best place to learn to play Chicago-style Blues, and to create a unique and fulfilling immersion experience in the Chicago Blues music culture....

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Chicago Blues Camp is held in downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue across from Grant Park within walking distance to Burnham Harbor, Buddy Guy’s Legends, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Harold Washington Library and Millennium Park. Classes are held at the Chicago College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University. Accommodations are in Roosevelt University’s new state-of-the art student dormitory.

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