Frank Fotusky/Guitar Workshop @ Belmar Arts Center, Belmar NJ

Name: Frank Fotusky/Guitar Workshop @ Belmar Arts Center, Belmar NJ
Start: 2025-10-10T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-10T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Belmar Arts Center

Schedule

Fri Oct 10 2025 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Belmar Arts Center | Belmar, NJ

Concert: $25
Concert and Workshop: $50
Ticket available soon at: https://www.belmararts.org/music--events.html
Workshop: 10 people max
Instructor: Frank Fotusky
Instruments: Blues Guitar
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Topic: Foundational Guitar Techniques and Blues Archetypes

This beginning of the workshop will focus on often overlooked fundamentals. Addressing these issues will help build a strong foundation on the guitar. Topics will include Left/Right Hand positions; holding the guitar to get the best tone and dynamics; breakdown of fundamental chord shapes and applying them across the fretboard; fingerpicking approaches to build independence between thumb and fingers; back picking upstrokes with thumb.

The second half will explore techniques, grooves and runs using archetypal songs and how they’re applied throughout the Blues canon. The focus will be mainly the key of C with references to D, E, & A with songs from Julius Daniels, Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Johnson, Blind Blake and more. Notepad and recorder recommended.