Description
Date: September 13, 2025
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Skill Level: Intermediate
Class Registration Fee: By August 25, 2025 – $90.00
After August 25 – $100.00
Are you a guitar strummer who would like to progress to fingerstyle? Maybe you already play fingerstyle, but want to improve upon your techniques or learn more about fingerstyle accompaniment. Spend a concentrated day mentored by veteran player Brad Shryack, and take your guitar playing to the next level. Students will concentrate on solo guitar, accompaniment, arranging, and songwriting focusing on the thumb and fingers working independently of each other.
You can also take a 6-week, online class with Brad from January 23 – February 27, 2025, via Zoom.
Students need to bring the following supplies: Your own guitar – one that you are comfortable with, preferably acoustic.
Materials fee: None. Instructor will provide handouts, sheet music, etc.
Brad Shryack hails from from Galesburg, Illinois and has been teaching guitar for over 20 years. He started playing in rock bands as a teenager, and after a few years, got really interested in Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke, and classical guitar. He has a great time studying the guitar, and enjoys working with his students.
Here’s Brad playing an original song, written as a tribute to Ernie Banks
And here, playing a cover of the Lennon/McCartney song “All My Loving”
Both are from his debut album, which may be heard on Spotify:
