Past Artists- Mark Whitfield ( June, 2007)

What our members had to say !

"I couldn't believe Mark's picking control.  Who would think that you could do classical right hand excercises, ala Fernando Sor, with a flat pick"

"What an incredible clinic and concert. Mark Whitfield is in a class all his own in the field of jazz guitar.  What a player. What a bluesy feel. He showed us how to play really fast chording like Django on steroids but with a very modern twist. He did major seventh intervals and ninth intervals with internal movement as lines up and down the fret board really fast that was totally something I hadn’t seen before. Amazing technique.  He demonstrated all his different right hand techniques, pick, thumb, fingers, pick and fingers, thumb and index finger. He showed picking techniques for arpeggios and string skipping. Then he spent a lot of time on chord melody."



 

Mark Whitfield Clinic

June, 2007

Clinic: “Picking Techniques”
 

Mark Whitfield graduated from Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music in 1987 where he studied composition, arranging, film scoring and conducting as well as all styles of guitar performance. Later on that year, he returned to his native New York, and immediately began his professional career. Within a few months, he had begun to perform and
record with many well-known artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey, Jack McDuff, Betty Carter, Carmen McCrae, Dianne Reeves, Joe Williams, Cleo Laine, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Stanley Turrentine, Clark Terry and many more.