Bill Mize
Saturday, May 11 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
NOTE: This Workshop requires a separately purchased ticket in addition to General Admission. Get Tickets
Adding Originality to Arrangements
Bill will share his experiences in using musical influences and inspirations to place an original stamp on his own arrangements. He will demonstrate how he has drawn from his “music library” while arranging such songs as Come Together, Shenandoah, Cherokee Morning Song and many others.
Some concepts covered:
• producing a better tone
• moving beyond musical clichés
• creating interesting basslines and
• working on more “filled out” inner parts and lines
The second half, Bill will lend a helpful ear to those who are working on arrangements of their own and would like some positive feedback.
About Bill
Grammy-winning guitarist Bill Mize is a son of Tennessee, and a fitting representative of his state’s rich musical heritage. His critically lauded fingerstyle compositions are fluid and intricate, and their delivery masterful. One suspects an influential teacher, and one would be right. “I received most of my musical education from a cheap Zenith radio,” says Mize, who as a child drifted off to sleep to the decidedly non-sleepy lullabyes emanating from Nashville’s WLAC and WSM and Knoxville’s WNOX.
Maybe that’s why critics speak of his ability to “transport” the listener; the music itself has been transported. The links to his Tennessee roots are unmistakable, but so are the elements of the far wider musical realm he inhabits, and the mixture is as intoxicating as Tennessee moonshine. With a twist.
Bill is a past winner of the National Fingerstyle Guitar Competition at The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. Guitar Player Magazine has labeled this event the “U.S. Open of guitar competitions." Bill received a GRAMMY Award for his collaboration with musician and storyteller David Holt on the recording Stellaluna, and has been featured on the popular guitar compilations “Windham Hill Guitar Sampler” by Windham Hill Records and “Masters of the Acoustic Guitar” by Narada Records. In 2009, Bill’s music appeared in the Ken Burns documentary “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”
Mel Bay Productions transcribed Mize's second CD, “Tender Explorations”, into a songbook, and his original compositions have been transcribed for Fingerstyle Guitar and Acoustic Guitar magazines.
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