Back in the Dave with Vicki Genfan
A sea of female guitar players, how do you stand out? Life challenges never stop, the joy and pain dancing in the rain, still finding a way to bring it all together in a single instance of life while expressing it through her music. Vicki Genfan, "percussive" acoustic guitar player and vocalist, Vicki takes us through her life and music, sit back, listen, and embrace one beautiful human being and outstanding recording artist.
Guitarist Vicki Genfan on Finding Light in the Heart of Darkness
Guitar aficionados and acoustic music fans are familiar with guitarist Vicki Genfan. A singer, songwriter, and performer, her unique approaches to the instrument — utilizing 29 alternate tunings and applying a percussive technique that she calls “slap-tap” — have made her an internationally recognized virtuoso, albeit a modest, self-effacing one.
Strumming Patterns You Must Know
If you’re a fellow musician who enjoys learning and soaking in information, these courses are for you! These lessons are designed to equip you with essential strumming patterns for jamming, accompaniment, cover tunes, and original compositions—and of course, there are a ton more in the full course.
Featured in Riff Journal as a part of their “50 Gifted Singer-Songwriters” Series
“Winner of Guitar Player Magazine’s “Guitar Superstar” award in 2008, Vicki plays her own percussive style of ‘slap-tap’ acoustic guitar, and has been showcased as one of the world’s top guitarists at festivals such as The International Montreal Jazz Festival, Germany’s Open Strings Guitar Festival, Italy’s Soave Guitar Festival and hundreds of venues and performing arts centers across the US and abroad.”
Words to the Wise: Songwriting Perspectives
What makes songwriters distinctive from one another is their individuality; their personal experiences, their perception of the world around them, their loves, their heartbreaks, their joy, and their sufferings. It’s the songwriter’s individual experiential background that powers the songs they write.