Mark & Greta Afternoon Concert in Los Altos, California
Mark & Greta in concert in Los Altos, California, with fingerstyle guitarists Teja Gerken and Doug Young.
Tag: guitar solos
Mark’s Three New Books Released!
Mark was busy in 2018: Two 30th Anniversary Editions and a new Repertoire book! Relaxing Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar includes 15 new Hanson solo guitar arrangements of well-known tunes, from a spectacular new version of the classic “Sleepwalk” to Ed Sheeran’s recent “Photograph” and “Hallelujah” from Leonard Cohen. Notation/TAB/Online Audio. Lower-Intermediate to advanced. More info. The Art of Solo Fingerpicking 30th Anniversary Edition includes 20 new/updated pages and four cool new tunes, including Mark’s “Cast Away” and “Easy Virtue.” Notation/TAB/Online Audio. More info. The Art of Contemporary Travis Picking is the perennial best seller, having trained scores of thousands of […]
Acoustic Guitar Summit in Lake Oswego, Oregon
AGS Holiday Show at the Lake Theater Cafe in Lake Oswego, Ore.
Acoustic Guitar Summit in Lake Oswego, Oregon
AGS holiday show at Lake Theater Cafe, Lake Oswego, Ore.
Acoustic Guitar Summit in Ridgefield, Washington
AGS concertizes at historic Old Liberty Theater in Ridgefield, Washington
Luthier Event in Oregon – DATE CHANGE TO MAY 4!
Mark will miss this year’s event due to a scheduling conflict. The event occurs May 4-5.
House Concert in Wenatchee, Washington
House Concert with Mark Hanson & Greta Pedersen.
Guitar Workshop in Wenatchee, Washington
Fingerstyle Guitar Workshop
Mark Plays for the Portland Guitar Society
The Portland Guitar Society features a local performer at its monthly meetings, which occur on the first Monday of each month. I will play for them on November 5. (Get out and vote the next day!!) To become a PGS member–a worthy organization of classical and fingerstyle players– costs only $20 for an annual membership. Find them online here.
STOP READING THE MUSIC!
Great musicians are able to think ahead, hear the music in their heads as it approaches, and anticipate what their hands need to do in the moments to come. To do this best, I highly recommend you MEMORIZE your music. To memorize your music: STOP READING IT. My suggestion for memorizing: play each passage of a tune you are working on copious times while reading it, but then CLOSE THE BOOK, or turn the music over so you CAN’T read it. Now play it without looking. If you stumble, go back to the notation/tab to ensure you are playing it correctly. […]