Jul 26: Building Strong Improvised Solos with Eric Skye

Saturday, July 26, 2025

11am – 1pm

Dusty Strings 3406 Fremont Ave N

Maximum Enrollment: 16

Registration & Refund Deadline: Wednesday, July 23, 2025

A detailed discussion and demonstration on creating strong melodic improvised solos. We will use both a simple folk song, a blues, as well as a jazz standard to break down how we can use simple fat-free theory and our knowledge of the tune to come up with compelling lines that are threaded through the harmony and tethered to melody. Anyone one that wants to will get chances to take a solo.

Skills Needed: All are welcome (including instruments besides guitar), but some basic knowledge of chords and open scales would be a plus.

What to Bring: A recording device for sure. And a guitar (or other instrument) but absolutely zero pressure to play.

Teacher: Pacific Northwest acoustic guitarist Eric Skye occupies a unique niche between folk, jazz and blues, between fingerstyle and flatpicking, and between composition and improvisation. Eric has released nine albums and toured throughout the country for many years. ericskye.com

“A perfect synthesis of eclectic influences”- Acoustic Guitar

“An uncanny ability to make the familiar sound new, and the new sound familiar"- Fretboard Journal

“One of the purest, most musical flatpickers of the 21st Century”- Bluegrass Unlimited

“Tone, taste, and technique”- JAZZIZ

*Most classes and workshops are geared towards late-teens and adults. Younger learners will benefit most starting with private lessons.

If you have any questions about group classes, or the school in general, don’t hesitate to contact us at (206) 634-1662 or [email protected].