Gretchen Menn’s album Abandon All Hope is an ambitious musical visualization of Dante’s Inferno. She discusses the challenges of creating a large-format project of such musical and conceptual and ambition.
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She plays the Jimmy Page role in Zepparella, one of today’s leading tribute bands. Listen to how she recounts her deep dive into a single player’s style and how it expanded her vocabulary.
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Nili Brosh, Vicki Genfan, and Gretchen Menn join Batten in this four-day online symposium.
Portland, OR (July 20, 2020) -- Jennifer Batten’s Guitar Cloud Symposium (GCS) is coming to guitarists worldwide August 7-10, 2020. The four-day online symposium features an all-star presenter lineup, including Jennifer Batten, Nili Brosh, Vicki Genfan, and Gretchen Menn. These globally acclaimed guitar greats will deliver powerful techniques and insights to help guitarists of all levels boost their musical growth, artistic development, and performance.
Designed in the style of an online guitar camp, GCS offers 24 live, dynamic, class modules on more effective playing and practice techniques, composition and creativity building, performance psychology, and more! Also on the agenda are live Q&A sessions and virtual social gatherings. Attendees will have fun connecting with presenters and each other during this unique experience that is as engaging and inspirational as it is academically game-changing!
Learn more about Batten and all the GCS presenters through audio samplers, video, course listings, and biographies at www.guitarcloudsymposium.com.
“I’m excited to have incredible musicians like Nili, Vicki, and Gretchen on board as presenters for the launch of GCS,” says Batten. “It was a guitar symposium that inspired me to apply to Musicians Institute and launch my music career. You never know how an event like this can impact someone’s life. So now, as I present GCS, the intent is to empower other guitarists out there with the tools and inspiration they need to express themselves and achieve their goals.”
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