Highlights from the Flatpicking Guitar Workshop on Oct 28th!

Oct 2010 - DHR hosted a flatpicking guitar workshop with Tim May and Dan Miller, co-authors of the popular eight volume Flatpicking Essentials Guitar Course, conducted a hands-on two-hour all-level flatpicking guitar workshop which covered a wide range of flatpicking guitar topics, including specific questions offered by the participants. See photo highlights below.

The focus of the instruction involved how to use efficient left and right hand  technique to increase speed, improve note clarity and fluidity, and develop good tone. Other topics discussed will include opening up and exploring the entire range of the guitar fretboard and an introduction to improvisation for student of all levels.

The attendees were offered appetizers and drinks, a discount on the workshop series instructional guides, and an after-hours tour of DHR Music to test out their dream guitar(s). Everyone had a great time and anxiously await the next workshop we have to offer. We have had numerous requests to offer additional workshops. We will post a notice both on the website and Facebook once we have any future workshops scheduled. We also send out e-blasts of special events, so if you haven't signed up our newsletter yet, be sure to. There is a newsletter signup link on the main page of the website at http://www.dhrmusic.com, in the lower left handed side of the page.

Instructors bio:

Tim May is a very accomplished guitar player, singer, and songwriter - and one of Nashville’s acoustic guitar “go-to guys”. For fifteen years Tim focused on his job as the guitar player for the Nashville-based bluegrass band Crucial Smith. When that band broke up in 2002 the job offers started pouring in. Recent highlights include touring with Patty Loveless, touring Japan with John Cowan, playing on the all-star Rounder project Moody Bluegrass, performing on the Grand Ole Opry with Mike Snyder, and recording a bluegrass gospel project with Charlie Daniels. Additionally, FGM Records concert DVD, “Live in Kansas City,” with Brad Davis and Cody Kilby. Whle there are plenty of great guitar pickers in Nashville, Tim May adds great songwriting and singing to his list of many talents, which include being equally adept at resonator guitar, banjo, and mandolin. When he is not on the road or in the recording studio Tim works building and repairing stringed instruments.

Dan Miller is the publisher and editor of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine (since 1996). He co-authored a number of flatpicking books, including, “The Bluegrass Guitar Style of Charles Sawtelle” with Charles Sawtell, “Flatpicking the Blues” with Brad Davis, and the Eight Volume flatpicking course “Flatpicking Essentials” with Tim May.

Tim and Dan have been performing in a trio with their good friend Brad Davis since 2005, as well as performing together as a duo since 2007.

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Created: 10/30/10
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