Classes & Lessons
Six-One Hour, Guitar Lessons, Bill Ellis, Professor of Music, Saint Michael's College, VT
- Item Number
- 182
- Estimated Value
- 300 USD
- Sold
- 200 USD to jd58f16d4
- Number of Bids
- 9 - Bid History
Item Description
Six lessons, beginners to advanced players all welcome. A Saint Michael’s College professor of music, William L. Ellis holds a master’s degree in classical guitar and a PhD in ethnomusicology. He has taught at such prestigious music camps as Augusta’s Blue Week and Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch (with Jorma, Roy Book Binder, John Hammond Jr., and others).
The lessons, which accommodate playing level, will be tailored to the player’s interests and can focus on a number of styles and techniques, including basic to advanced fingerpicking, slide guitar, song arranging, and open tunings.
Memphis roots guitarist/songwriter William Lee Ellis has been hailed a “wizard on steel strings” who “recalls Ry Cooder in his prime” (Blues Revue), whileAllMusic Guide writes: “Not since the late John Campbell has there been a blues talent so original.” The son of banjo/fiddle composer Tony Ellis and the godson of bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe, William specializes in pre-WWII acoustic blues and gospel styles. Among his recordings are Conqueroo, picked byAcoustic Guitar magazine as one of 2003’s best albums, and the Jim Dickinson-produced record, God’s Tattoos, called “one of the most welcome acoustic blues albums of 2006” by the Chicago Sun-Times and winner of the 2007 Bluestar award in Australia for “Best International CD Release” by a solo artist. More recently, his composition, “Where Would I Go,” was selected for the Music of Tennessee CD companion to the Oxford American’s annual Southern music issue. Ellis, a professor of music at Saint Michael’s College, holds a master’s degree in classical guitar and a PhD in ethnomusicology.
To learn more about Bill, you can visit: http://www.smcvt.edu/pages/get-to-know-us/faculty/ellis-william.aspx.
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