Masterclass: Fingerstyle Guitar with Basil Wahn

Join Berlin-based musician Basil Wahn for a deep-dive into his fingersyle guitar technique that allows him to draw out the melody, harmony, bass lines, and percussion from re-envisioned popular songs all at once. In this masterclass, you’ll be introduced both to the fundamental skills and the more advanced techniques that bring fingerstyle playing to life. Basil will showcase several songs to illustrate essential techniques and guide you through proven best practices for learning fingerstyle guitar.

There will be two types of tickets available: a Player's Pass (guitar, limited capacity) and a Listener's Pass. Listeners will be invited to bring notebooks or simply enjoy the show, and Players will be invited to sit close to the stage with their instruments so that they can follow along with positioning and technique.

Be sure to check out his Free Tabs page, including popular contemporary music re-envisioned as fingerstyle guitar compositions, on his website if you'd like to get a jump on the Masterclass. He even has a dedicated page to arrangements of Beatles Songs – in other words, he's got your winter woodshedding on lock-down.

Basil Wahn has more than 4 million Spotify streams per year, regularly plays concerts in bars, restaurants, and coffee shops in Berlin and beyond, and has supported slots for other fingerstyle guitarists such as Adam Rafferty, Calum Graham, Maneli Jamal, Peter Finger, and Dave Goodman.

Basil Wahn will be the headlining performer at the January 5 Hootenanny (FREE EVENT), and Basil's performance will be from 6:30-7:15 pm. This is a free show with limited, first-come-first-serve capacity. Doors open at 6:20pm to the Hootenanny event. Local musician Sarah Chien will be our double-header Featured Artist, starting at 7:15. Our open mic will begin at 8 pm.

Basil Wahn Bio (from basilwahn.com/bio):

Basil Wahn is a fingerstyle guitarist from Germany who composes and arranges instrumental music for acoustic guitar in the styles of pop, blues, and jazz. He favors a concise, to-the-point writing approach aimed at maximum musical impact. Inspired in 2006 by fingerstyle greats Jacques Stotzem, Adam Rafferty, and Tommy Emmanuel, he has since developed his own distinctive sound. His music is available on YouTube and Spotify, where his songs reach up to four million streams each year.

His music is available on YouTube and Spotify, where his songs reach up to four million streams each year.

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