Guitar Workshops

Guitar Workshops “On Request” (collectives or private)

Interview Michel Lelong

2021 – TheCountryBlues.com

Let us know if you are interesting by other periods, if you want to enjoy a guitar wokshop in your area. Or may be you will prefer to spend a good time in the Loire Valley for a private guitar workshop and visit the area (wine cave, Loire valley castle etc..) guitar workshop!
(Tours is just in the Center of France)

Styles

  • Country-blues
  • Rag
  • Travis-picking
  • Folk
  • Old-time
  • Jazz Roots
  • Music theory

Techniques

  • Finger-picking
  • Solo
  • Slide

Acoustic Blues & Ragtime Guitar Workshop Program (All Levels)

Phil Wiggins et Michel Lelong
Phil Wiggins and Michel Lelong Blues Week – Augusta Elkins West Virginia USA
  • Technical finger-picking and traditional solo
  • Study of styles depending on the region (Delta, Piedmont blues …)
  • Construction of accompaniment rhythmic
  • Approach to improvisation and development (scales,apergios, phrasing etc..)
  • Transposition and chords amplifications and subtitutions
  • Theme harmonic analysis
  • Learn by listening
  • Development of a finger-picking accompaniment
  • Techniques for finger picking arrangement (alternating and monotonic bass line, contrepunctiques)
  • Slide (bottleneck) and open-tuning

What people are saying

The European Blues Association, England
Michel lelong from Tours, France, is a great guitarist and a highly skilled teacher.

Michael Messer web site forum
Our good friend michel lelong in tours has written a blues guitar instruction book called “La guitare blues acoustique” […]. It is one of the best I have seen.

Larry Conrad

La Gazette de Greenwood – France – “The acoustic blues method”

Is it human to master so many styles? In any case, beyond the method to learn blues guitar, the method cd can be listened with a great pleasure by those who love the blues guitar! As for those who decide to learn the blues with michel lelong has chosen a tutor who knows his subject… This is the least we can say…

Country Folk Bluegrass Guitar Workshop (All Levels)

Michel et l'association finger-picking
Jam in the Cook Shack (North Carolina) with Clay Lunsford (president of the association of finger-picking) – 2012
  • How to play together
  • Technical finger-picking and traditional solo
  • Study of styles
  • Construction of accompaniment rhythmic
  • Approach to improvisation and development (scales,apergios, phrasing etc..)
  • Transposition and chords amplifications and subtitutions
  • Theme harmonic analysis
  • Learn by listening
  • Development of a finger-picking and flat-picking accompaniment
  • How to make your own arrangement in finger picking or flat-picking
  • Open-tuning

What people are saying

Guitare et Claviers (French guitar magazine – may 97)
With Michel Lelong, we discover through this video a musical style uncommon in france and that’s a shame…

Le cri du coyote (French music magazine on the traditionnal north-american music – no. 44 – 1996)
Each exercise is not a fake mini-concert, but a total count of units difficulties seizure: a slow pace, then finally real comments simple and precise. Michel lelong makes you want to sharpen your fingerpicks….

Jacques Bremond

Celtic Guitar Workshop Program (All Levels)

Michel jeune

  • Study in standard tuning and open-tuning DADGAD
  • Technical finger-picking and solo
  • Harmonic analysis of a theme
  • Learn by listening
  • Construction of rhythmic accompaniment (reel, hornpipe, jig …)
  • Development of a finger-picking accompaniment
  • How to arrange in finger picking (alternatin & monotonic bass, contrepunctiques)

What people are saying

Guitare et Claviers – France – May 98 – Guitar magazine
Few professors teach this style (…), after the very interesting “Country guitar instructionnal video” for the same publisher, michel lelong realised again the same challenge with the “Celtic guitar instructionnal” (…) the arrangements are especially for owners of folk guitar. Both techniques are the “Finger-picking”And “Flat-picking”.