“Pull-Off” a Misnomer!
The term “Pull-Off” is a Misnomer!
Part 2: What Goes on in a Professional’s Brain When Playing? The Intellectual Aspect
Anticipation is SO important in playing music. Your brain must be ahead of your fingers.
Mark Featured on Page 1 of Pamplin Media
Mark’s guitar performance history featured in regional newspapers!
The Search for My First Great Guitar
In this age of internet sales, EBay and Reverb.com, this story of my first Martin guitar purchase is both quaint and touching. Thanks to caring family members for my lifetime possession!
What Goes On in a Professional’s Brain When Playing?
With correct practice, you may be surprised at how quickly you can increase the tempo to performance speed without making errors.
Student Recital Repertoire
Mark’s Student Recitals are great fun!
Mark Hanson’s Lifetime Song List: 2,000 and Counting! Want to Learn Some?
From Fingertyle guitarist Mark Hanson: This is the list of tunes that I have worked on/taught at some point between 1963 and the present. The list is approaching 2,000 tunes!
Cool Chord Progressions
By Mark Hanson It was fun to read about Sting studying scores of French Impressionist composer Maurice Ravel (“Bolero”) for new harmonic and chord progression ideas. In this article we’ll study a chord progression you may not have seen: a dominant 7th chord resolving down 1/2 step (G7 to F#, or D-flat7 to C, for instance) — the “Augmented 6th” progression. First, here’s a fundamental harmonic movement to understand: You all know that V7 chords (“dominant 7th”) resolve regularly to the I chord (“tonic”): G7 to C, for instance. They also resolve effectively up to the vi chord of the […]
An Easy Way to Think of a Cool Chord
In a major key, combine the ii chord with the key’s leading tone. Voila!
Mark Hanson’s first live, in-person concert in 17 months is broadcast this Friday, August 6, 2021!
Mark Hanson’s first live, in-person concert in 17 months is broadcast this Friday, August 6, 2021, at this url: https://www.wilsonvillearts.org/summer-performance-series The show was presented and filmed July 16 at Meridian UCC in Wilsonville, Oregon, in front of a well-spaced ‘crowd’ of about 25 enthusiastic people. It’s (almost) all original music from a fingerstyle guitar master. Good to be onstage again! Viewable after the Premiere, too!