A Conversation with Brian Sherrill on The Gary Dranow Show 🎸

[JoLa]

I’ve just found this on YouTube 🙂

🎸JoLa

[Georg B]

Thank you JoLa for sharing. Great!

[Richard G]

Thanks for highlighting this interview JoLa.
I joined Active Melody in 2011 and have watched and learnt a lot over those intervening years. During this interview Brian was critical of his performances in those early years, however he was still head & shoulders above anyone else at the time.

Brian always comes over as a humble and likeable character, we all know his talents as a teacher and musician even though he somewhat plays it down but, we all know different. Brian’s strength as a teacher and enthusiasm for guitar is contagious and probably the main reason why Active Melody is so successful.

Richard

[Michael Krailo]

The interviewer mentioned being influenced by Ted Greene. I looked up info on him and that must have been so confusing to learn using his method of bombarding students with every possible variation on a chord.

I liked that little snippet of Brian teaching the blending of E major and E minor pentatonic to play the blues. I could see and understand exactly what he was explaining. It’s so awesome to just know how all of this actually works now.

Now I know Brian’s story. So glad he is doing what he loves to do. And that video with Tomo was very insightful as it pertained to vibrato technique.

Root note patterns >>> CAGED shapes >>> TRIAD'S. Just put in the work and watch your guitar skills soar.

[sunjamr]

What?? Why didn’t Brian tell us about this?

Sunjamr Steve

[Glen G]

This is fantastic!!! Thanks so much for sharing, JoLa.

Glen Guldbeck
"Strive for constant and never-ending improvement!!!"

[RIFF DIGGER]

JoLa, thank you for finding this.
It’s a great conversation between both Gary and Brian, kind of a rare gem. Especially enjoyed hearing about his early days in junior high school and how he gravitated towards the guitar and what it meant to him.

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