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Old 03-21-2013, 03:31 PM
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I go to the Acoustic Guitar Club at Paradise on Thursday mornings at 10:00. It is basically a play around. When your turn comes you can pick a song out of a book to introduce something new. The players run from beginners to a few very advanced players. It's mostly three chord songs with a few more advanced things thrown in.
On Tuesday mornings at 9:00 at the Churchill Center I go to the Advanced Acoustic Guitar Club run by Gary Davis. Gary is an excellent instructor and has a subject each week where he attempts to teach us something new for about the first 15-30 minutes. After that it is a similar play around with much more advance chords. Gary always says that it's a club for guitarists that want to learn to use more then three chords. The members say that the philosophy is never use one chord when you can play six.
I also run the Beatlemaniacs of the Villages which meets on Friday mornings at 10:00 at the O'Dell Center. While technically we are not just a guitar club the second hour of our meeting is spent playing and singing Beatles songs. We have acoustic, electric, bass guitars as well as drums and pianos. If you like the Beatles you'll love this club. If you don't like the Beatles you should come and learn how great they were.
There are a several other guitar clubs that have a theme such as folk music, bluegrass and country. I've gone to some of those and drop in occasionally, but the Acoustic, Advanced Acoustic and Beatlemaniacs are the three that I go to regularly.
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The Beatlemaniacs of The Villages meet every Friday 10:00am at the O'Dell Recreation Center.

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