Workshop Review!

The guitar workshop was inspiring to say the least. Stefan Roach is simply inspirational and plays such complex music with ease and fluidity.

For those that missed out - you missed a great opportunity. Everyone at the workshop came from a different and unique musical background and had different goals but because of Stefan's musical fluency, he was able to tailer to more advanced players while still tending to those who needed a slower pace.


We perfected our scales, major and harmonic minors as well as some popular flamenco progressions and applied new fingerpicking techniques and arpeggios to these progressions.

We attempted new strumming patterns known as Rasgueado and Golpe which include releasing your fingers like a slingshot while strumming, and tapping the guitar as you strum to give a more percussive feel.

We concluded with the Rumba Strum which was a combination of the strumming patterns we had learned incorporating the tapping with the slingshot fingers and playing a continuous strum at the same time! Stefan made it look so easy!

Everyone who attended the workshop left feeling inspired and ready to go home and practice our new techniques added to our repertoire.

Special thank you to all who attended, to Island Academy for providing the space for this musical education to take place, and most of all for Stefan for inspiring us to be better musicians and giving us the stepping stones to do so!