Class Description

We will discuss musical approaches to the guitar by selecting a series of songs to explore with rhythm, chord voicings, melody, harmony, and improvisation. We will also take songs from their original/traditional foundation and explore how we can make them our own. We will learn ways we can expand our technique and our perspective of how music works. I assume we will start with folk, country, bluegrass, and jugband/old-timey music. But anything goes once we establish some repertoire. For intermediate to advanced players. A true renaissance musician, D. Davis has been playing guitar for the better part of four decades. He divides his performance time among the jazzy and dynamic, the driving and the dulcet. Find him performing with Red Hot Juba, Cookie’s Hot Club, The Larkspurs and Les Dead Ringers, among other bands.