On Sunday, Nov. 16, at 1:30 p.m., Mark & Greta bring their joyful guitars/uke/vocals concert to the Sunriver Christian Fellowship Church, 18139 Cottonwood Rd., Sunriver, Oregon, Dessert is served during intermission!
This is always a fully attended, cozy gig at a private home up, the street from the Pacific Ocean!
AGS once again brings their scintillating licks and stunning feel and virtuosity to the Old Liberty Theater. Holiday theme at this show.
Hi, everyone. Greta and I are off to Scandinavia for August. Emails and orders will be answered and filled after Labor Day in early September. We’re planning a sale in September, so stay tuned — literally and figuratively! Check out drop-D tuning here: “Castaway.”
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 & Greta concert, Mark workshop, and several demos for topnotch luthiers
Scintillating fingerpicking and sparkling vocals from a Grammy winner and a National Artist of the Year (Young Audiences). Great fun!
By Mark Hanson January 8, 2025 Fingerstyle improvisation is a multi-faceted undertaking. Improvising on a wind instrument (saxophone for instance) requires you to play a new melody, one note at a time. In fingerstyle guitar, you need to do that plus keep the chord and rhythm going underneath. It’s a workout for the brain! A way to get started: First, memorize the chord progression of the tune you want to use. Do this by writing (by hand!) a chord chart of the tune. Early on I discovered that writing by hand has a special connection to the brain; plus you […]
Mark & Greta concertize in Wenatchee, Wash., March 1, 2025.
During a recent lesson I noticed my student intermittently looking at his picking hand directly before his fretting hand moved several frets to another position. He continually missed the second position. Studying a bit what I do in a similar situation, I realized that I look directly at the new position moments before I move there. This gives my fretting hand a target. If you were to watch me play an entire two-hour concert you would never see me even once look at my right (picking) hand. My picking-hand position is so secure and the motions so minimal that I never […]