A Week with Chet
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2016 8:41 am
I posted this on FaceBook but felt that there were more here who would be interested
I was going through some pictures and found a few of a very memorable week I spent in Danbury, Connecticut at a special guitar seminar led by John Knowles, who was very close to Chet, recorded with him and was awarded one of only 5 very coveted “CGP awards”, personally given out by Chet. This stands for “Certified Guitar Player”, which some of you may recognize as the beginning of my email address. One of the days John had Chet come in to spend a day with us. Fortunately one of the attendees was a photographer and took these pictures, which I will always treasure. John called me to the front of the room to demonstrate Chet’s version of “When You Wish Upon a Star”, which uses a lot of “harmonics”, which are a special technique that I won’t explain here but my guitar friends on FB are already familiar with. I was scared to death and this technique requires steady hands, so it wasn’t perfect. Some of these pictures show Chet working with them after I was finished. I apologize for the quality of these pictures but they are pictures of pictures, taken with my iPhone.
I was going through some pictures and found a few of a very memorable week I spent in Danbury, Connecticut at a special guitar seminar led by John Knowles, who was very close to Chet, recorded with him and was awarded one of only 5 very coveted “CGP awards”, personally given out by Chet. This stands for “Certified Guitar Player”, which some of you may recognize as the beginning of my email address. One of the days John had Chet come in to spend a day with us. Fortunately one of the attendees was a photographer and took these pictures, which I will always treasure. John called me to the front of the room to demonstrate Chet’s version of “When You Wish Upon a Star”, which uses a lot of “harmonics”, which are a special technique that I won’t explain here but my guitar friends on FB are already familiar with. I was scared to death and this technique requires steady hands, so it wasn’t perfect. Some of these pictures show Chet working with them after I was finished. I apologize for the quality of these pictures but they are pictures of pictures, taken with my iPhone.