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The pedagogy is logical, progressive, and easy to understand. With instruction right out of marks famous music education program, youll learn about improvising solo and rhythm parts, modern string techniques, playing in a band, buying electric gear, and much, much more. Eys is a music education phenomenon that fires up students, teachers, and local communities by injecting a high voltage dose of rock. The official website for world renowned electric violinist mark wood. Mark wood electrify your strings event, may 25, 2011 friday, may 27, 2011 kudos to mark wood and the tecumseh, mi orchestras for an exciting, eclectic, energetic concert at the tecumseh high school gym last night. The secret machines also covered it for the film across the universe. The mark wood improvisational violin method published by cherry lane is regarded as the definitive electric violin method book. The mark wood improvisational violin method,and he plans to write. Violinist mark wood on his electrify your strings program, and how its shaking up string education. He is dedicated to bringing his message to students and educators in schools and stores across the country. His program electrify your strings eys, now in its 14th year, is an intensive rock and roll workshop for school music education departments that boosts student selfesteem and motivation and helps raise money for music education.
Mark wood electrify your strings event, may 25, 2011. Watching childrens faces when they master a new song on their instrument or with their voice can be a lifechanging experience. Mark wood sheet music and music books at sheet music plus. Electrify your strings returns to brecksville with another inspiring performance. Isbn 9781575607436 9781575607436 softcover, cherry lane music, 2008 flo motion.
Along the way, he launched his own music education program, electrify your strings, which is in its 16th year. Electrify your strings by mark wood softcover audio online. Marks unique electrify your strings program has taken school music programs by storm, motivating tens of thousands of young people. The mark wood experience rock symphonies show, an exciting concert experience that electrifies and inspires audiences around the world, is masterfully led by mark wood, groundbreaking electric violinist, internationally renowned recording artist, and leading music education advocate. May 07, 2014 dubbed the les paul of the violin world by pbs, mark wood first turned the string establishment on its head in the early 1970s with his invention of the first solidbody electric violin. Its electrify your strings season again and the 20172018 no limits tour is about to begin.
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Through the program, wood works with high school music students around the country. June 10 at oliver ames high school, 100 lothrop st. Starting with rehearsals and culminating in an exciting rock n roll concert with mark and the entire school orchestra, teachers all over the u. Mark wood is a worldrenowned, emmywinning composer and electric violinist. With instruction right out of mark s famous music education program, youll learn about improvising solo and rhythm parts, modern string techniques, playing in a band, buying electric gear, and much, much more. Cherry lane electrify your strings bookcd violin instruction. The annual camp is a mecca for folks serious about rocking out with violin, viola, cello, and bass. Youll find a wide selection of mark wood sheet music, songbooks, and music books at sheet music plus. A compilation of the best of mark woods hardrock violin catalogue, with highlights including previously unreleased material such as a new hip version of eleanor rigby with vocals by laura kaye and a smoking rendition of jimi hendrix purple haze. Mark winthrop wood is an electric violinist, as well as the founder of wood violins, a company that makes unique electric violins. Wood and his team work directly with a composer and violinist mark wood will present music education program electrify your strings at 7.
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