Icon Re: OK, so Law bombed...what about this guy?
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Pierre is always great, and was great at that concert (it was one CD back, forget the title). I haven't heard Altiplano yet.

I trust you have Livre du Gitarre (The Guitar Book) his intro book. He basically marches you through all the early tunes(and there are some neat recipes in there as well), including Santa Monica (which is a very busy tune...takes a lot of stick to-itive-ness to learn). He has a second book along the same lines with his newer tunes, of which I've only played a few. The only one I know really well is March to Fingal (it's his easiest and one of the ones you have to know to get into the master class). If you really want to get into it, he offers seminars at a lot of the concert areas he plays and has a special course at his home in France, where you eat, breathe and sleep guitar for a week, with one on one instruction from him. He's a great guy and very excellent teacher. He is a stickler for technique, so if you don't work hard at it, or do things his way, he will let you know in short order that you f'''d up. He does not mince words. The classes can be a little intimidating, because some of your "classmates" are major players in their own right. For example, Pat Kirtley was in my class; at the time I had no idea who he was, but when I heard him play, it was like "O Mi God...". But I learned a lot from Pat as well, so it helps to be around other great players.

Get on the mail list and he lets you know when and where the seminars are held as he does his annual American jaunt.

Happy plucking.
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