Guitar Classes 2025

5-Week Classes

Study seriously, practice hard, and then perform with confidence!

July 8- August 7, 2025

Jazz on the Classical Guitar Workshop

Learn to accompany, improvise and create your own solo arrangements of jazz standards on the classical guitar, or fingerstyle acoustic guitar.

Intensive study of jazz rhythms, scale theory, accompaniment styles and improvisation skills on the guitar all while learning and playing some of the greatest standards of the American jazz songbook.

We will also rehearse and perform jazz guitar ensembles.

Perform your solo and ensemble pieces in the Concert Finale, Thursday, August 7, at 6:30pm.

SCHEDULE

10 (Ten) Class sessions : Tuesday and Thursday evenings: July 8 to August 7.

Dates: July 8 (T), 10 (Th), 15 (T), 17 (Th), 22 (T), 24 (Th), 29 (T), 31 (Th); August 5 (T), 7 (Th)

Times: 2-hour sessions: 6:40pm - 8:40pm (snacks provided)

Where: Grigassy Guitar Studio (home studio)

Address: 6405 Sharpview Drive, Houston, TX 77074

Finale Concert: Final session, Thursday, August 7 at 6:30pm

Bayland Community Center Auditorium, Bayland Park (or another venue TBA)

Address: 6400 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77074

Cost: $250

(You don't have to attend every session. Sessions can be made up or rescheduled with 24 hour advance notice. Makeup sessions - including virtual sessions - are available for missed in-person sessions.)

Ensemble Class Videos

Here are videos of the final performance of the ensemble pieces from our Jazz on the Classical Guitar Class Recital, August 5, 2021 (We will do similar ensemble arrangements, in the next course. Note: we do these arrangements with each student taking a lead solo; this has been edited out of these videos below).