This is my solo guitar arrangement of J.S. Bach’s beautiful “Sheep May Safely Graze.” I use it when I play for the hospitalized ‘premies’ (babies born before the full gestation period) in Portland. Play it as smoothly and gently as you can. Suggestions: 1. To make the parallel thirds in the opening measures consistent in tone I pick EACH PAIR OF TREBLE NOTES with my index and middle fingers, including the low C on the fifth string; 2. In measure 2, sustain the low C note throughout; on beat 2, lift the middle finger silently (relax!) and place it along with […]
Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop by three award-winning masters: Mark Hanson, Terry Robb and Doug Smith!
Mark’s solo fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the classic “America the Beautiful.”
Acoustic Guitar Summit concertizes once again in Hillsboro, Oregon, at the Walters Cultural Art Center September 27, 2024.
Virtuoso fingerstyle guitar trio — Hanson, Robb, Smith — play their holiday concert 2024 on December 14 at Redwood Friends (Quaker) Church in Portland, 2901 SE Steel Street, in Portland, Oregon, 97202.
Acoustic Guitar Summit brings its sparkling and stunning holiday arrangements and great virtuosity to the Old Liberty Theater in Ridgefield, Washington, on December 7, 2024.
Mark performs, teaches and demos great new guitars from six talented luthiers at the La Conner Guitar Festival — https://laconnerguitarfestival.com — May 17-19, 2024.
Mark & Greta bring their fun vocals. guitars & uke show to this lovely north central Washington town in the Cascade Mountain range. Guitar workshop precedes it at 4:00 p.m.
Scintillating guitar, vocals and ukulele highlight this Mark Hanson & Greta Pedersen acoustic concert at Artichoke Music in Portland, Ore.!
To use acrylic nails to fingerpick, or not! Mark Hanson’s current approach.
