Dan Crary's Bluegrass Guitar Workshop
HOMESPUN
An Exploration of Dynamic Soloing
Taught By Dan Crary.
Level 4
85-minute DVD or VHS, Includes music + tab book

You won't find a better teacher than Dan Crary to show you how to play exciting flatpicking tunes on the guitar.

This in-depth lesson by one of the most dynamic and accomplished players on the acoustic music scene contains a wealth of technical knowledge, encouragement, inspiration and powerful ideas that will benefit all players. It’s designed to give you a new understanding of your guitar and provide all the tools you need to develop your instrumental skills.

Dan’s original arrangements of classic tunes are widely recognized as flatpicking repertoire standards. On this DVD, he takes apart five of these dazzling showstoppers, revealing some of his favorite tricks: fiddle drone effects, banjo-like runs, snapping strings, syncopated licks, pull-offs and hammer-ons and crosspicking. His invaluable advice on a wide range of topics will redefine the way you approach your practice sessions, help you set realistic learning goals, get “unstuck” from a plateau and improve your performances.

Before long, you'll be playing Lime Rock, Arkansas Traveler, John Henry, Foggy Mountain Special and Sally Goodin, and creating your own variations of these classic tunes.

Review:

"....No flatpicking guitarist creates more powerful, dramatic guitar arrangements of traditional and original tunes than Dan Crary. . . One of Crary's great gifts as a guitarist has always been his ability to bring nonguitar sounds to the instrument. In this lesson, he brings banjo rolls and fills and other imaginative licks to his arrangements, and he knows how to highlight this information. . . . Guitarists of nearly any ability will find a lot to learn here." -- Acoustic Guitar

About Dan Crary
In his long career, Dan Crary has emerged as one of the world's premier acoustic lead guitarists, both as a soloist and as a featured instrumentalist in bands such as the Bluegrass Alliance, Sundance, Berline/Crary/Hickman and California. He is widely regarded as an innovator in the introduction of flat-picked lead guitar in bluegrass.
Aside from his virtuosic guitar style, he’s developed a reputation as one of the finest teachers of bluegrass guitar at festivals and workshops, and is a long-time Taylor Guitars Signature Artist.

In addition to being a popular performer and recording artist, he's also been a Professor of Communications at the University of California at Fullerton, a highly regarded musicologist, a widely published writer, and a witty raconteur who has collected a trunk full of anecdotes in his world travels. His ability to connect both musically and personally has brought him success, with concert and workshop appearances in from North America to Europe, Japan and the South Pacific. His 1994 CD “Jammed If I Do,” with guests Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, and Beppe Gambetta, was hailed as one of the decade's great gatherings of guitarists, while his solo album, “Thunderation,” an "Indie" award for "Best String Instrumental Album." Dan's “Holiday Guitar” won 1998's "Indie" for "Best Seasonal Music" from the Association For Independent Music.