Riley
07/17/21
Amazing
Wonderful
David Blacker
David Blacker is a guitarist, songwriter, music producer, and educator. His playing and compositions have been featured on numerous original albums, national television commercials, TV series theme songs, and radio spots. As a guitarist, David has accompanied award winning vocalists and top session musicians on recordings distributed independently and through Rounder Records. He is also co-founder of AirGigs.com, a global marketplace for hiring session musicians and recording engineers.
David's guitar playing and approach to music are deeply influenced by different styles of American Roots music and the blues in particular. As a guitarist he is mostly self-taught, learning by ear, and following the roots of popular music backward to greats like Django Reinhardt, Robert Johnson, Charlie Parker, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Duke Robillard, Hollywood Fats and many more. These days David spends his time writing for TV, Film & Radio projects, producing his own original projects, teaching, and performing.
David's guitar playing and approach to music are deeply influenced by different styles of American Roots music and the blues in particular. As a guitarist he is mostly self-taught, learning by ear, and following the roots of popular music backward to greats like Django Reinhardt, Robert Johnson, Charlie Parker, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Duke Robillard, Hollywood Fats and many more. These days David spends his time writing for TV, Film & Radio projects, producing his own original projects, teaching, and performing.
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Reviews
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Dazedandconfused
12/14/20
Thank you
I decided to be productive during the quarantine period. Luckily I had my own guitar and was recommended Truefire by a friend. Initially it was difficult, learning the basics, but I progressed. David sir's method of teaching and explaining is so good, in spite of being a beginner, I could easily understand. So Thank you so much, it has helped me a lot!
aditya2509
08/24/20
Swing Blues Survival!
The master of swing Blues, helped me a lot to explore my playing outside the pentatonic box and broke my rut. It really helped me to combine a lot of jazz chords, walking bass lines into my own playing with felt so different than I what I had been previously doing for years. The lessons were very articulate, comprehensive, and technically proficient. Mr David Blacker please upload more lessons about swing rhythm and combining it with jazz! Thankyou so much!
Sean65
03/13/20
Great teacher, great player.
David has a very cool teaching style, laid back but straight to the point easily digested explanations. Personally I love the sub genre of jump/swing blues and David has delivered several great courses on this much under taught style. The Swing Blues series is excellent especially the Rhythm edition. So e of the comping part could easily stand as a chord comping solo next time you get the nod to take a break. The solos taught in West Coast blues are performance level peaces. This course is is a great study of playing the changes and just the slow blues solo is worth the price alone. If you are intermediate level and looking for some cool hip sounds that spell out the changes, by sure to check him out!
clint
10/14/19
The man
Simply put: This dude is the man. He's got such a laid back and chill personality it just makes learning from him a breeze. If you are on the fence about any of his courses - just go get one. He's great at what he does and offers a lot of value. Just a good dude all around.
