The “Solo Guitar” Project
Solo Guitar is a magical style of playing where the guitarist brings melody, chords, bass, and rhythm together all at once. To start to wrap your ear around the style, listen to tunes like “Deep River Blues” - Doc Watson, or take a look at Tommy Emmanuel’s energetic demonstration of the style in his TEDx talk.
In 2023 I came across a master of this style named Ted Greene who blew me away with his beautiful music and really challenged me with his dexterity, his understanding of the fretboard, and his immense harmonic vocabulary.
Over the last couple years I’ve been growing my ability to play in this style and make my own arrangements of tunes and I thought it would be fun to start to share them!
You Will Never Be "Good Enough"
— A simple phrase that has been echoing into even the farthest reaches of my soul for the last 22 years. Though my mind has been expanding like the universe, it feels like “you will never be good enough” permeates every square inch of new territory before light has a chance to glow over any of it. Fresh off a birthday and near the end of my time as a student at UNC-CH, I’ve been reflecting on the last four years and realizing how God has been teaching me to understand “you will never be good enough” through my pursuit of music.