Full Moon Workshop - Visionary Guitar Playing with Cloudchord

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Visionary Guitar merges the inner and outer self. How do we build physical chops yet deepen our vision? Where does my playing live in this big world? What choices can I make to sustain long term inspiration and growth?
This class will be a mix of Cloudchord presenting / performing on topics of guitar technique and philosophy, as well as an element of group playing.

WHAT TO EXPECT
This workshop will merge guitar playing skills and existential questions:
- Finding your “Battle Cry”
- Zen Guitar and CAGED
- Digesting your influences
- Group improvisation games (loosen up, buttercup)
- Daily Rituals - embracing schedule rhythms for maximum momentum
- Chopping Wood - how to become a warrior
- The Pendulum - from simplicity to complexity
- Embracing limitations and exploiting your weakness
- Mistakes - extensions of fearlessness
- Gigs - taking it to the battlefield

YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Cloudchord
Cloudchord aka Derek VanScoten is a Producer, Guitarist, and Ableton Certified Trainer.
He has presented at official Ableton events in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Denver, Austin, Dallas, and Atlanta. He was a beta tester for Push 1 and 2, and Ableton Live 9-12. He also contributed several presets to Live 11.
Read the interview with him at Ableton.
Watch a Cloudchord Tutorial on the Ableton Youtube channel.
As an artist, Cloudchord continues to move from strength to strength.
While known as a highly prolific downtempo artist, his range expands beyond any particular musical genre, tempo, or ideology.
While amassing over 130 millions streams, this past year has seen him dropping boom bap bossa novas, funky disco, cinematic lofi, and trancey deep house. Genuine connection with the creative Source is the mission.
Live shows incorporate improv looping, group sing-alongs, uptempo funk numbers, and in the crowd guitar solos.
Past collaborations include Big Gigantic, Emancipator, Braxton Cook, Prob Cause, Dirtwire, East Forest, Oatmello, Sunsquabi, Random Rab, and Ian Ewing. Check out the Cloudchord Essentials Playlist on Spotify for his 10+ hours of released music.
While much of Cloudchord’s catalog is self released, he has also collaborated with Nettwerk Records, Chillhop Music, Inner Oceans, Aviary Bridge, Loci Records, Gravitas Recordings, and Lofi Chill Records.
Bonus Cloudchord fun facts.
1. He scored electronic music for the documentary “In Football We Trust,' which debuted at Sundance 2016, and won an Emmy in 2017.
2. He produced the 14 song Disco Biscuits album “Revolution in Motion.”
3. He runs an Ableton Education Youtube station called Open Channels.
4. He won the Of Monsters and Men remix contest in 2016 with a viral tropical house flip of "Wolves Without Teeth.”
5. In 2023, he did over 200 hours of live looping on Twitch

CoSM WORKSHOP SETTING
Class sessions will take place in the newly renovated MAGI Art Lab.
Grey House, CoSM's Visionary Victorian guest house, provides accommodations for all participants.Residing onsite together is a part of this immersively creative week, providing maximum interactivity, immersion & enrichment. Accommodations in Grey House are offered in a variety of economies and are additional to the workshop fee.