Just a heads up. If you want to find the bluegrass musician that Pierre talks about it is Bill Keith but with his French pronunciation it sounds like Keys. He also mentions Graeme Allwright, Alan Stivell, Artur Rubenstein and Georges Cziffra but it took some Googling to get these because of his accent. Wonderful how diverse his influences are. Irish artists like Planxty too. J'adore la musique que tu joues, mon ami Pierre!
I first heard Pierre 20 odd years ago, when he was a young blade. This first number is new to me and so reminiscent of the recently departed John Renbourn, beautiful.
That chord! 33:40...Simple sounding but amazing (and not easy to play)!! And those chords preceding it and directly after are for me a lesson in itself!
we have to be our first listeners, and we are responsible for the sound we create. So if you listen only to a portion of that sound and ignore the other portion of that sound, where do you think it’s gonna lead you? Nowhere. You are responsible for the life of a note, and you have the life of a note in your hand. But the life of a note is also depending on the life of another note, and this is harmony and voicing - all these notes work together because you care about their length; how you make them go on, and how you make them die.
I wonder if Pierre is a friend of my guitar and musictech teacher: Gilbert Medam. Thank you for sharing this fabulous item made me even curious with DAGDAD tuning. Mercy, Pierre.
Stephen, My impression after being with him and listening to various recordings over many years is that, yes, he does improvise a lot. His arrangements tend to be continually evolving. - Steve
Guitar Gathering That would be amazing. I told all my musician friends about this channel, so much content it’s really great! Please have Pierre Bensusan once more.
I honest-to-God, I watched a video before this and it says not to hunch over the guitar and to make the guitar diagonal to the floor. It's so hard to understand all this.
Yes, Pierre has a bit of a hunched over position. He's had that as long as I've been familiar with him. That's just his way of holding it - very much cradling the guitar and getting it close.
