Student Recital Repertoire
Mark’s Student Recitals are great fun!
Mark’s Student Recitals are great fun!
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!
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 […]
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, 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!
Dealing with Sore Fingertips!
Timeline/Contents for “Music Theory for Guitarists” video.
A “Top 10” accolade for Mark’s guitar solo “Go Tell It On the Mountain”!
Memorize your guitar pieces more effectively!
You can very successfully move a “C”-shape up the neck! For fingerstyle guitar one of my favorite chord shapes in standard tuning is “C.”