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Mark’s guitar performance history featured in regional newspapers!
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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!
Tip From Mark: Dealing with Sore Fingertips!
Dealing with Sore Fingertips!
Timeline For ‘Music Theory for Guitarists’ Video
Timeline/Contents for “Music Theory for Guitarists” video.
Mark Receives Accolade for Holiday Arrangement!
A “Top 10” accolade for Mark’s guitar solo “Go Tell It On the Mountain”!
Unable to Memorize Your Guitar Pieces?
Memorize your guitar pieces more effectively!
A Suggested Low-Stress Practice Routine
Maybe sitting in front of an interactive computer screen is part of your practice regimen (that’s yours truly in the photo jamming with BB King’s band at his museum in Indianola, Miss.). But if not, here are some thoughts I recently offered to a student. To avoid the Yngwie Malmsteen-like physical maladies caused at least partly by shredding without warming up, I suggest starting your sessions with major scales at the end of the neck, using open strings. You’ll fret about two-thirds of the notes, so your fretting hand relaxes continually. Play the scales relatively slowly and softly to avoid […]
Modulate the B String to Help Make the Melody Stand Out
The B-string on a steel-string guitar can be loud – it is the thickest wire on the guitar, even thicker than the wire inside the wound sixth string. The inherent volume of the second string can produce unbalanced melody notes compared to notes played on the first string. Your ear is your guide in determining how hard to pick each string to balance the melody. However, when you pick the first and second strings simultaneously, it’s not easy to make one louder than the other. The volume differential between the first and second strings may obscure the actual first-string melody […]