Sean McGowan: “Get Me to the Church on Time”

Fingerstyle jazz guitar master plays his arrangement of the “My Fair Lady” classic.

October 9, 2015

Denver, Colorado-based guitarist and educator Sean McGowan is best-known for his brilliant fingerstyle jazz playing. He recently released My Fair Lady, an album of arrangements from the well-known musical, and stopped by the Peghead Nation video studio to record a segment for Advanced Fingerstyle Workshop. In his workshop segment, Sean teaches two comprehensive lessons on jazz-blues comping and jazz-blues bass lines. He also discusses his gear and performs a couple of tunes from his My Fair Lady album, “On the Street Where You Live,” and “Get Me to the Church on Time,” which is featured in this video.

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A Toye for Two Lutes

Teja Gerken and Flynn Cohen play a John Renbourn-inspired duet of a Renaissance lute piece.

Orville Johnson: “You’ll Work Down to Me Someday”

The song “You’ll Work Down to Me Someday” was recorded by Memphis bluesman John Henry Barbee in the late 1920s. Peghead Nation instructor Orville Johnson teaches you how to play the fingerstyle guitar part (including two different solos) in his Blues Guitar course, but in this video Orville just lets loose and sings the song in his own inimitable style. To learn more blues guitar techniques, including fingerstyle, lead guitar, and slide soloing, enroll in Orville’s Blues Guitar course on Peghead Nation today.

A Toye for Two Lutes

Orville Johnson: “You’ll Work Down to Me Someday”

Matt Munisteri: “Picking the Guitar”

Matt Munisteri: “April Kisses”

Stevie Coyle: “Walking in the Air”

Jamie Stillway: “Home: Part 2”

Teja Gerken “1948”

Ed Gerhard: “The Water Is Wide”

Janet Noguera: “Nohemi”

Stevie Coyle: “622”