Guitar Lessons — Ashland, Oregon

I also teach acoustic guitar lessons using my own course plan, Fundamentals of Rhythm Guitar. My one-on-one lessons will get you started learning strumming, with rhythm techniques for the right hand, and chording techniques for the left.

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Here’s a quintessential Cuban song from my album Música del Sol, produced by Pam Lucas and Carol Holm.

Recorded July 1999 by Richard Williams at Lightsound Studios in Ashland, Oregon.

Guantanamera Words by Jose Martí, music by Jose Fernandez Diaz | adapted by Julian Orbón, Hector Angulo & Pete Seeger © 1949, 1963, 1965 Fall River Music

Nancy and I wrote this song about marital harmony. It is on our collaborative album of original songs Twentieth Century Songs which we released in December 1999.

Recorded December 1999 by Richard Williams

at Lightsound Studios in Ashland, Oregon

Easily Aroused by Nancy and Bryan Holley ©1998

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