ArtistWorks Summer Series—Week 2: Martin Taylor
Welcome to the second week of the ArtistWorks Summer Series! Every week this summer, we’ll be dropping new lessons, performances, study materials, and more from some of your favorite ArtistWorks teachers.
Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson: Slap Harmonics
One of the interesting and unique qualities of stringed instruments is that their construction allows players to quickly access a wide range of harmonic tones with relative ease. The easy access to harmonics allows players of nearly all stringed instruments to implement these unique sonic textures into their playing in limitless creative and boundary-pushing ways. These harmonics are particularly beautiful and offer an ethereal sonic flavor when played on the acoustic guitar.
Mike Marshall Releases Mike Marshall Mandocello J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 2, BWV 1008
Earlier this month, world-renowned mandolinist, Grammy-nominated musician, and ArtistWorks bluegrass mandolin instructor, Mike Marshall, released his latest album, Mike Marshall Mandocello J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 2, BWV 1008.
ArtistWorks Summer Series—Week 1: Tony Trischka
Welcome to the first week of the ArtistWorks Summer Series! Every week this summer, we’ll be dropping new lessons, performances, study materials, and more from some of your favorite ArtistWorks teachers.
Classical Violin Lesson: Dynamics & Color
What makes music so wonderful is its innate ability to tell stories and elicit deep, complex emotional responses from its listeners. Like human emotions and the human experience, the most impactful musical performances are loud, soft, aggressive, tame, beautiful, sorrowful, happy, sad, and every combination and iteration thereof. In order to convey this vast array of emotions and feelings, musicians need to be acutely aware of the manner in which they use dynamics and color to tell their intended story within a performance.
ArtistWorks Summer Series 2022
At ArtistWorks, our courses are living, breathing communities that are jam-packed with content that is constantly growing and evolving. That’s the beauty of ArtistWorks online music lessons. Our platform always offers players of all levels new resources and opportunities to learn and grow as musicians.
“Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar with Andy McKee” is Now Open!
We are absolutely ecstatic to announce that our newest course, “Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar with Andy McKee,” is officially here! As of 12 pm PT, the course is officially live and open to all students.
Artistworks Discount on Darol’s new Mr SUn CD “EXTROVERT”.
Greetings, you fine faithful fiddlers, you.
I’ve found a way to offer a 25% discount on your purchase of our new Mr Sun CD EXTROVERT.
Just go to my Darol Anger Bandcamp.com page
...and enter " darolartistworksdiscount " in the discount box. You'll get 25% off the $20 price.
There will be a shipping charge, sorry. It now costs close to $5 to send a CD first-class USPS. Geez.
Also available now: The Mr Sun Book of Charts and Solos for Extrovert.
This book features the crucial Guitar, Mandolin, and Fiddle solos from most of the tunes and songs on Extrovert, and chord charts and “heads” of the band’s original compositions as well. Quite revealing!
With these transcriptions, you can enjoy a "Sun's-eye view" on what we're doing over some of the pieces we play, and maybe get a little insight into some of the inner workings of this band's improvisational vocabulary. And you can see what the chords are!
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Electric Bass Lesson: Using Space & Simplicity
A common perception among many listeners and aficionados of music is that a musician’s virtuosity is defined by their ability to play highly technical, complex melodies and harmonies at fast tempos with precision. While many virtuosic players are able to do this, often the most prolific musicians are masters of exercising restraint, of leaving space between the notes and chords to create musical passages that not only sound wonderful but are deeply moving and emotive. This is often most true among the world’s best bass players.
Celebrating 12 Years of “Fingerstyle Guitar with Martin Taylor”
Grammy-nominated guitarist, Member of the Order of the British Empire, and ArtistWorks fingerstyle guitar teacher, Martin Taylor has been an educator at ArtistWorks since 2010 and has played an integral role in helping us achieve, and continue to live up to, our mission: to "Teach the World Music" and bring the joys of learning to thousands of players around the globe.