Laurence Juber Quotes

I pretty much learned stuff off the records, although I had some lessons. I studied classical guitar and I read music, so I was able to work by a combination of what I could find in sheet music, and learning off the records – and doing my own transcriptions. But it didn't really become a serious proposition until quite a lot later. It was 1990 when I did Solo Flight. That's when I got serious. I cut my fingernails off and really started developing technique.
Laurence Juber 

I just taught the National Guitar Workshop last week in Oakland. I don't do a lot of teaching. I don't do very much private teaching. I enjoy teaching. I learn a lot from doing it. So there's always a week or two out of the year during the summer where I'll teach some kind of workshop. I like doing the Association of Fingerstyle Guitarists Seminars. I wish I could do more of it, but usually timing-wise it doesn't work out. 
Laurence Juber

I just started playing using my musical know-how. I started analyzing what was going on with DADGAD tuning for example, and found where my intervals were. Starting obviously with octaves, then tenths, and sixths, thirds. And then I started just exploring it in terms of fingerboard knowledge and recognizing that instead of playing a linear scale fingering, I could use a lot more open strings and get sustaining patterns. I started develop fingerings that were counter-intuitive, where sometimes the highest note in a pattern might be the lowest string that you play. (Plays a chord) Here's a C# on the fourth string, the A and the G strings are open.
Laurence Juber