Day One: Workshop Improvisation
Jim ten Boske gave the workshop Improvisation and explained some of the basic principles. This guitarist/composer is noted for his efforts to introduce improvisation elements as we know from popular music and jazz into the curriculum of the classical guitarist. He explained and played a number of options to improvise with various scales, based on simple chords. A subject which becomes soon quite complicated with respect to the musical theoretical basis as soon as you try to analyse things. I remember this complexity from my lessons with Ed Westerik, some years ago. At a certain moment you start mixing up pentatonic and melodic scales with the old church modal system.
Not so with Jim ten Boske, he kept things lean, simple and practical. Perfect for a brief workshop.