Mark Teaches Two Workshops at Dusty Strings in Seattle!

Mark presents two fingerstyle workshops at Dusty Strings in Seattle Mark is a brilliant teacher in these situations, able to successfully include and instruct people of differing ability levels and understanding. To register, call Dusty Strings at (206) 634-1662.

Topics:

1) Fingerstyle Guitar: Exercises, Etudes & Tunes – 1:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Expand your horizons with longtime Dusty Strings friend and Grammy winner Mark Hanson’s new fingerstyle guitar workshop “Exercises, Etudes & Tunes.” Mark shows you the essentials of creating high-quality fingerstyle guitar music: covering hand position, technique and interpretation. Featured are a number of Mark’s new fingerstyle exercises, which you’ll put to use in new “Etudes” (music built using a particular technique) and a a new Mark Hanson composition!

2) Get Started with Fingerstyle Improvisation – 3:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

At a loss for what to do after you play a tune one time through? Come take Mark’s new improvisation workshop and learn the strategies for expanding a tune: how to think, visualize, and “compose on the fly.” We’ll dissect rhythms and melodies, and learn how to use parts of them to create a new melody for your improvisation!