New Course Available! Contemporary Flatpicking Guitar with Grant Gordy
Former David Grisman Quintet guitarist shows you his modern approach to flatpicking with advice on theory, navigating the fingerboard, and creating your own solos.
In this course, Former David Grisman Quintet guitarist Grant Gordy shows you his modern approach to flatpicking and how he combines a wide array of musical influences to create his unique style with advice on theory and navigating the fingerboard and how to use that knowledge to create your own solos.
He’ll share his thoughtful and analytical approach to the fundamentals of melody, harmony, and rhythm, and delve into fingerboard mapping by using triads and their inversions and relating them to scale patterns. Throughout his course, Grant teaches you contemporary arrangements of bluegrass classics, fiddle tunes, and newgrass favorites, with new lessons to work on each month.
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For many guitarists, landing a gig with bluegrass mandolinist David Grisman’s groundbreaking bluegrass/jazz quintet would be the culmination of a career in music. But for Grant Gordy, it was more of a beginning, an apprenticeship in combining bluegrass and jazz that served as a launchpad for his own music. The New York City-based guitarist and educator has emerged as a major voice on the American acoustic music scene and become one of the most highly regarded young instrumentalists of his generation, performing in various capacities all over North America, Europe, and even India. His music has been heard on NPR’s All Things Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts and he’s received attention from numerous international music periodicals including Jazz Guitar Today and Acoustic Guitar, both of which featured Gordy as the cover story for their respective March/April 2023 issues.
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