Herman Li Accomplishments

Victor Wooten redefines the word musician. Regaled as the most influential bassist since Jaco Pastorius, Victor is known for his solo recordings and tours, and as a member of the Grammy-winning supergroup, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones. He is an innovator on the bass guitar, as well as a talented composer, arranger, producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. But those gifts only begin to tell the tale of this Tennessee titan.

He’s done almost all our art work for our band, Casaveda--the album cover, T-shirt and stickers,” Baskt said. “He is always willing to help, super passionate about every piece and every person he works with.”

In this paper, I am going to discuss my experiences playing in the WNE, the bass guitar, and the one and only Willie Nelson. In the legendary WNE, I am the bass player. For this project, it took hours on end of studying the bass inside and out to become this legendary player that I dreamt of before this project. The electric bass, a mystical object that is the foundation of every song, was invented by Paul Tutmarc. Since the 1960s the bass guitar has replaced other instruments

American drummer Brian Blade has conquered many jazz fans with his sophisticated technique, open nature, and instinctual rhythm. His unique touch, never too loud and never too soft, has played a crucial role in projects of likes such as Kenny Garrett, Joshua Redman, Mark Turner, David Binney, and Wayne Shorter. He also built an amazing reputation as a leader of the Fellowship Band, a 20-year endeavor that normally comprises two saxophones, one or two guitars, piano/keyboards, and bass.

Resourceful acoustic guitarist Ralph Towner has been an exemplary case of productivity and dedication since his first appearances in the early 70s.

But out of the ensuing media interviews came a surprise, Ed revealed one of his primary influences leading us ─ amazingly ─ to jazz guitarist Allan Holdsworth. Wait,

He learned to play the guitar and the violin growing up, and he was one of the best violinists in his high school. Maybe he'll incorporate his ability with these instruments more in future records.

Mercurial guitarist Mark Whitfield got the jazz world’s attention during the 90’s, when the NY Times considered him ‘The Best Young Guitarist in the Business’. Despite speaking a vocabulary of his own, his style is still influenced by his mentor George Benson, the one who recommended him to the organist Jack McDuff.

There are many people in the world who are influential. They inspire minds to do what they were made for, they are leaders to younger people, and show traits that inspire. A person that shows this is the man who changed the way people thought of Asians, Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is influential because of how he changed the way people thought of Asians, his accomplishments, and his quotes.

Seeing him perform myself as he cohesively engages with the audience at any given moment, I was able to observe his devotion to his craft. “I like the intimacy of it and the immediacy. I'm a fast moving sort of guy. Even in the studio, I like to have everything with me. I want to do everything really fast….At every moment, every time I play the songs, they're different. It's really nice to be able to present that to people.”

Andy McKee is an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist with adept, technically proficient skills and whose playing touches upon bluegrass, progressive rock, and classical music. Though recognized as a growing talent in the fingerstyle guitar community since the early 2000s, McKee achieved even greater prominence in 2005 after the video for his song "Drifting" went viral.

Most people are either born predominately right handed or left handed. There are some people who are ambidextrous. But, can you imagine being able to play the guitar either right or left handed? This biography essay is about a guitarist who is an icon in the world of music by the name of Johnny Allen Hendrix or “Jimi” Hendrix. According to the Rolling Stones, Hendrix had plenty of talent to take a “right handed Fender Stratocaster and play it upside down” with his left hand. Hendrix was extremely creative in his ability to not only use his guitar as an instrument but had the capacity to exude a new source of electronic sound. In doing so, Hendrix turned electric guitar playing into a new technique of modifying sound. Rolling Stones stated

Best known for his ground breaking achievements in guitar techniques involving feedback manipulation, Jimi Hendrix was a legendary Rock 'n Roll musician, singer and song-writer. Jimi’s first instrument was a rubbished, single string ukulele with which he still played with inspiration from hearing Elvis Presley songs. With hard work and dedication, at age 15 to his then first guitar he joined a band, the ‘Velvetones’ and after upgrading to an electric better he was accused of flaunting which compromised his membership in the band. After joining the Army he continued with his passion for the guitar and played with a fellow serviceman Billy Cox. After they both got out of the Army and moved to Tennessee.

The lead singer, Jimmy Buffet has an amazing voice with multiple personalities shown in the different songs. On the guitar is Wiz Khalifa who has many electrifying solos and plays with fire in his heart. The keyboardist, Drake, doesn’t get much credit but in the background of each song you can clearly hear his smooth keyboard style played with perfection. Kanye West also has

If you've been following this site for a while you will already know that here I try to help people learn how to play guitar in the most effective way, providing software tools and insights on correct practice and how to maximizing outcome. A couple of weeks ago I was in Ottawa for vacation (by the way canadian friends, I absolute love your country, amazing, even if someone told me "don't come in the winter"), and in a bookstore near the Parliament I noticed a book that drew my attention. Its title was "Talent is overrated" by Geoff Colvin. I bought it and read it, and here I share with you some insights that I hope will be useful for our guitar practice and our vision of the instrument in general.