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Jul 12
ArtistWorks

 

We are excited to announce that ArtistWorks has officially joined a consortium of major online music education companies, which includes TrueFire, JamPlay, and FaderPro. The collective are all portfolio companies of private equity firm, Growth Catalyst Partners. These four firms provide musicians around the world with music instruction on dozens of instruments and genres while delivering access to Grammy Award-winning artists, top session players, and world-renowned educators.

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Jun 25
ArtistWorks

 

This week, we had the pleasure of sitting down with David Butler, Chairman and co-founder of ArtistWorks and our “Beginner’s Guide to Acoustic Guitar” course instructor, to discuss the concept of Video Exchange, how he conceptualized the learning method, and a few of the reasons why it’s such an effective tool for teaching music lessons. Here are the seven pitfalls of private music lessons, and how Video Exchange can help:

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Apr 16
ArtistWorks

We're pleased to announce the addition of a new lesson from Howard just filmed this week! In this new lesson Howard takes you through the tune Little Sunflower. He gives his tips and insight on how to approach the tune and then demonstrates over a backing track, switching between multiple harps to contrast the ideas he setup. You can find the lesson with the backing track attached as a study material near the end of the list in the Advanced section of the lessons. To go directly there now CLICK HERE. Have a great weekend and enjoy!

 

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Apr 9
ArtistWorks

In this week’s installment of our live streamed series “Live Dispatch from Home,” ArtistWorks’ CEO and Co-founder Patricia Butler will host ArtistWorks blues guitar instructor, Keith Wyatt, and electric bass teacher, Nathan East, for an evening discussion, “Exploring the Styles of Blues,” on Wednesday, April 14 at 4:30 PM PST.

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Mar 30
PatriciaB

Beginner guitar players are often looking for the best place to start learning and that includes finding the most suitable teacher and online guitar lessons.  In this video, David Butler, author of the “Beginner’s Guide to Acoustic Guitar” at ArtistWorks, shares his insights on embarking on that musical journey.  He explains “I don’t presume players know how to play guitar or know anything about it, so I start at the most basic level.” 

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Feb 9
ArtistWorks



Series update: The final 4 parts of the Livestream portion of the Big Jazz Getaway are now available in the +Music Section of the site! Included in these parts are the beautiful renditions of "Satin Doll", "Taking a Chance on Love" and an improvised "One Minute Jam". Enjoy!

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Jan 30
PatriciaB

We’ve all heard the phrase, “practice makes perfect”, but is there such a thing as the perfect practice? We don’t think so. But one thing to keep in mind is that if you want to see forward progress in your acoustic guitar playing, setting aside 30 minutes five or six days a week will definitely advance your skills. 

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