Thursday, July 16 at 3:00pm EDT
The Handmade Music School Presents:
Handmade at Home - A Virtual Workshops Series

Tone, Taste, and Timing: A guitar workshop with David McLaughlin

David will share his knowledge and provide advice on developing a clean and tasteful flat picking style on the guitar. Emphasizing the importance of playing only what is necessary, topics to be discussed include how to improve timing, tone, and speed as well as cross-picking. With a strong focus on rhythm, this workshop will also address how to be a better rhythm player and how to start lead playing for rhythm players.

David McLaughlin is perhaps best known for his signature playing and harmony singing with the Johnson Mountain Boys, appearing on eight of their albums on Rounder Records and garnering two Grammy nominations. The band's live album won the first International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Album of the Year award. David played lead guitar and sang brother duet-style harmonies with Josh Crowe on an album called "Going Back" that they recorded together for Rounder. Numerous session credits include his work with Appalachian singer and National Heritage Fellowship winner Hazel Dickens. David and the rest of the Johnson Mountain Boys were announced as 2020 inductees into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.