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The Big Picture: We always know where we are on the guitar, whatever key we are in, because we can see The Big Picture, where there are three basic chord shapes and connectedness is everything.
Right-hand Drive: Basic thumb-pickin and its endless possibilities, including the alternating bass, the “Travis” Pick, Carter style pick-and-strum and my specialty, pseudo-flatpickin.
Drop D ( God’s Tuning ): Not just for D by any means, Drop D is my “standard tuning.” Great bass parts in D and G and A of course but see how easily Drop D goes anywhere.
Pickin Tunes: Not about back-up chords and bass lines, we’re gonna play the tunes and keep the rhythm going.
Fingering Behind the Slide: Get amazing chord changes, hammers and pull-off effects, even play slide without retuning.
Davis Sweet took up the ukulele after attending one of Jim Beloff’s Uketopia shows at McCabes Guitar store in 2000. Davis has played music since he was ten and guitar since his teenage years. “I had been avoiding learning the uke because I thought that it would be just one more instrument that I could play, but not play well. As it turned out the ukulele took over my practice time and I hardly play anything else now.”
Davis is a member of the all-uke show Ukulele Noir, and has performed with the Hawaiian Club of Boston as well. He has been interviewed on WUMB and WGBH radio, and by the Somerville Journal. He has given workshops on the ukulele at WUMB’s Summer Acoustic Music Week, Old Time Music Camp North, and The Folk Song Society of Greater Boston’s Fall Getaway. He also give private lessons on the ukulele.
Richard Stillman
Bluegrass Banjo
Richard Stillman has been playing bluegrass banjo for over thirty years. He has founded or been involved in a number of influential Northeast bluegrass bands, including the Jersey Travelers (1979-1984), WayStation (1992-2000), The Bogus Family (1995-2001) and his current bands, Adam Dewey and Crazy Creek (1995-97 and 2002-present) and Southern Rail (1985-1989 and 2005-present). He has additional studio recording credits with other New England folk and rock artists.
Mr. Stillman was New Jersey banjo champion in 1983 and the 2002 and 2003 New England banjo champion. He is a six-time winner of the annual banjo contest held at Lowell, Massachusetts (1985-1995), where he has given the bluegrass banjo workshop every year since 1996. WayStation, a band he founded, was a member of the Massachusetts Arts Council Touring Roster and winner of the 1994 Northeast Regional championship of the Pizza Hut International Bluegrass Showdown. Mr. Stillman has performed with bluegrass bands on stages including the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival and Boston’s First Night.
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