New Concert and Interview DVD of ROLAND DYENS

I was just at LUTHIER MUSIC CORP ( 341 West 44th street ) Yesterday in attempt to
pick up my December copy of CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE and saw a new DVD by the GREAT super Virtuoso GUITARIST/COMPOSER/ARRANGER , my dear friend ROLAND DYENS. "ANYWAY" is totally awesome! I spent the early morning hours of today from 230 am to around 4:30 writing a thorough review of this spectacular DVD and am now transcribing the interview section ( 12 parts ).As soon as I finish this afternoon, I will post it here on this blog for all to see. IT IS A MUST HAVE!!!!!!!!!

A bit under the weather.

I have been off my blog due to a personal medical setback. I have been sidetracked by a little reality check causing me to dwell in a dark place the last couple of weeks but am climbing out and should be back in blogging form in a few more days.Hope to get with it and bring you some great stuff.Stay tuned!!!

Don

Some Thoughts and hopes for this blog.

I want this to be the most positive blog for the guitar on the web. I turned 58 this past April 6th and it occured to me that I have not given enough to ME!! On another posting group, I made an error by not completely reading a post and got thrown off the site. That hurt me deeply because I know I was respected and gave copious amounts of real information that helped people really get into the Guitar world and this is my purpose for being here. I owe a great debt of gratitude to my dear and caring wife who saw that I was deeply depressed at being cut from the discussion group last year and made me go to a couple of blogging courses in preparation for this moment. If you take a look at my webpage , you will see that I have a ton of things missing and am trying to take care of that this month of December.
I am out just about every day in the week playing for the "MUSIC UNDER NEW YORK" program sponsored by the New York City Transit Authority. I do as many gigs as I can to earn my way on this instrument.For several decades, I have been supporting my colleagues by showing up to their gigs even if I have played my own gigs. It has all been in an effort to support the community to which I belong. Now at my age of 58, I find that I have spent too many years only slowly working on my own playing so from here on I concentrate on me. I have collected several books on the art of writing in order to focus on clean thoughts put to the paper. In the past, I would spend a day of playing and traveling to friend's gigs to get home late at night with a billion things to post and would go off half cocked trying to tell you about it all in a blaze of sometimes incoherrent thoughts and wierdly concockted sentences that clipped thoughts and made me look like a babling ediot! In a rush to share my thoughts, I didn't take the necessary time to proof read ( I would be up several hours writing these posts until 5 or 6 am after a 12/13 hour day!!!). Well this time around I will be tempering this burning fire within me and I feel very confident that with this new vision of mine, I will better hit the target every time.
I hope to discuss all types of tidbits with you who want to learn more about this instrument and the various great things you can create on it! Right now, I will be finishing up a report on my favorite Guitar Festival - The Classical Guitar Society of Upstate New York Fall Festival! It is held in ONEONTA,NEW YORK the 1st weekend in October and I am so embarrased that it has taken me so long to get this normally easy report on the newsletter which I dearly apoligize for.
This is my main meat for tonight and tomorrow as there are several parts to my report that are all important and I have rewritten them several times because it just did not click for me. Anyway, I see that my blood is pumping back to almost my old self and as my wife assisted me earlier, she commented about how she has already seen my change back into "THE OLD DONNIE!" . I will do my best folks!

Don Witter,Jr.

Hello from Don's Guitar World

I'm finally up to share my many experiences with this great instrument.I am hoping to cut down your learning rate at this great instrument by letting you know about things on the market that will get you on top of the many great things you can play in various styles. This is my passion and I hope that you who decide to participate in this venture will have a positive spirit in your posts. We are here to share what we learn and I hope to be able to help you out. STAY TUNED TO THE DONNIE STATION!!!