A tip for the guitarist who hopes to keep a guitar pristine: Never bend over an open guitar case on the floor if you have something in your shirt pocket — like glasses, a pen, a capo or tuner. I’ve more than once had to quickly swat something away to keep it from landing on my guitar as it fell out of my shirt pocket! That’s my 2025 Collings C-100 in the photo. No dings yet, as of November, ’25!
No one plays perfectly all of the time of course (except Segovia, and he’s gone…), but you can attain a very high level of consistency through proper and plentiful repetition.
Mark’s solo fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the classic “America the Beautiful.”
Mark Hanson’s house concert P.A. setup.
To use acrylic nails to fingerpick, or not! Mark Hanson’s current approach.
Mark’s guitar performance history featured in regional newspapers!
With correct practice, you may be surprised at how quickly you can increase the tempo to performance speed without making errors.
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!
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!