"The Water Is Wide" Lesson, from Advanced Fingerstyle Workshop with guest Ed Gerhard

[@YouDude60]

Thanks, Ed. Your mastery and sense of play never disappoints.

[@greggallo3462]

Thanks Ed! I learned your version some years back and I kick myself in the ass for forgetting it! people loved it! thanks again for your beautiful music!

[@MelissaCox1992]

Absolutely Wonderful! Thank You so much!

[@BobandBear1]

Ed's arrangements are always very deep, when you really listen to the background acompaniment, It's every bit as melodic as the main melody. It ebbs and flows in such a beautiful, subtle way.....and cor blimey!, the ethereal sounding sustain on that Breedlove is something else

[@SEranger7]

I hit the like button as soon as you played the melody.

[@kamakauketwo5282]

I learned this off a DVD of Ed’s performance at a concert put together by fellow guitarist Muriel Anderson. Then I played Ed’s arrangement at my daughter’s wedding. I don’t know if I have the chops to learn it again, but it’s an epic rendition of a beautiful tune.

[@sheldonberg125]

Wow! Ed Gerhard giving a lesson on his beautiful arrangement of the Water is Wide! This is really a privilege and a great tutorial. I think I can actually play this with a lot of practice.

[@cliffwhite2812]

What a joy it is to watch and listen to a true master of their art. Thank you.

[@geoffgreen8023]

This is the kind of guitar playing that I have long aspired to, wonderful picking style and the way that the accompanying notes interplay with the melody is just wonderful,. I’m off to find more from Ed and kick the cobwebs from my guitar.

[@BobPerrone]

Lol...love the reason given for tuning down a half step. Thanks, that was a nice demo of your take on playing that beautiful melody

[@0x0221]

This might be the most important guitar lesson ever. Especially the part about mandolin players.

[@JoseMartinez-qf3rk]

Thaks Ed !!!!🎼🇵🇷

[@Handle-q6x]

Wow, Ed that is a wonderful lesson for every fingerstyle guitarist. They don’t teach like that in school and probably in most private lessons.

[@patrickgroll2046]

This is a good lesson for sure. I have played for many years and as I get older and have a finer appreciation for these things, it's allllll about melody. Jerry Garcia's playing is all about melody. Larry Carlton's playing is all about melody. Melody is like the 1 of each measure for drummers -- you must never lose track of it.

[@jimroberts5848]

Simply Wonderful. Many Many Thanks...

[@paullevine1813]

Well done & very well informative as to dynamics. What a pro .

[@jamesmitchell652]

Simply wonderful...

[@guitarnotions]

Love this

[@4nedjo22]

Amazing, thank you for sharing

[@Peterwrightguitar67]

Thanks for this - super helpful in trying to move this piece onto the next level..

[@docarmodoro]

I really love your explanations! Thank you very much!

[@alexandrekhazal5966]

Great arrangement for guitar

[@area49g12]

Very nice, beautiful rendition.

[@DrazenCika]

Superb, and thanks for all that background and emotional insight you share with us!

[@arctichare8185]

love it

[@bluetrain69]

Thank you Ed! I’m always trying to memorize each line, focusing on the melody will help make memorizing a little easier.

[@jerrydesu]

Beautiful. Thanks for the tips!

[@markwilliams3174]

Magnificent.

[@michaeldoucette4138]

Majestic

[@mainsblanches8793]

Great tip at the end there!!...hi!..hi!...same goes for banjo!!...

[@phonicwheel933]

In addition to the excellent playing, that guitar looks and sounds nice.

[@coddenhamjohn]

Beautiful Thank you

[@brokenlibrary2591]

Sweet!

[@textucker1158]

Excellent

[@moses5407]

HYSTERICAL comment about mandolin players not being able to jam with you!

[@torineg.847]

2019 I was here. Nicely done, Thanks..

[@simpeable]

There are some videos where I left comment ten years ago and I still can see my comment in higher section- not here though. This song still impresses me every time I listen, so beautiful...ED is like an institution ( we say that a lot when we want to praise someone) I know guy who lives in small town , it is still my town too - today rural place, with 50.000 people. Once it wasn't like that but because of war 30 years ago and big change of demographic structure all over Balkan it happened, almost everywhere , ..people who lived in villages mostly came to towns - for some it is hard to understand. That chubby guy lived in town on the border with Croatia and he was really poor, he did not have any money and than somehow he started to record some ridiculous short Balkan over stated humor videos, using KZbin as a platform ( still no competetive option 2) , his humor reminds me slightly on Sacha Baron Cohen's work, but upside down , people like him and who am I to judge? Today he has 7-8 millions subscribers. I am glad, but many are so jealous because his success is beyond just an ordinary success for our terms, not Americans nearly, but I am not quite sure ..last year he made almost 2,5 - 3 millions, people are envy as usual, they think he does not deserve it, and it has nothing with deserve or not, this life we live just do not function according to that imaginary idea people have implanted. ( maybe in promised land in religious domain) Did Ukrainian people deserve this, onslaught from Russians, did we deserve same tragedy that never ends, Did Yemen kids deserve to die every day because of hunger and no one gives a shit, especially those who do it! I know few who do care - not enough for kids to not die, I can go on and on....no one deserves it, did the chubby guy deserve to be an institution?! Why do I write about that here? :( :( Sorry, I really lost it, :) Anyway I am glad I can enjoy Ed's music here, to be for a few minutes off and relaxed ...hey I just want to say I really love Ed and than I went far off theme which is Ed's music!

[@robertsweeney9183]

Where can I get a lesson for this piece ? Thanks in anticipation Robert Sweeney.

[@geo2438]

Thank you! Beautiful. What tuning are you playing in?

[@geo2438]

Opps! I didn't listen far enough. You said what tuning you're using. Thanks

[@MtnLiner]

Get that man a drink of water.

[@TheJfjfjfjf7]

lol! My sentiments too

[@jonswoveland]

"the biggest benefit to me in tuning down a half-step, is that mandolin players can't jam with you" All that and a sense of humour too! I must admit I don't get the bit about "Nobody wants to play Blackberry Blossom in F#" Is this mandolin humour?

[@Matthew_Robert_Hunt]

DADGAD? Open tuning? Can't be standard, is it?

[@KrisDreverGuitar]

Drop D

[@meerasmelodiess]

What is that guitar in the background? Was curious. Lovely lesson.

[@jonswoveland]

Not sure what make it is, but it looks like a “Weissenborn” style acoustic Lap Steel.

[@dirkgibbens377]

Jon S is correct. It is his Breedlove “Weissenborn” style lap slide guitar

[@axleblaze123]

Micromanagement to the max

[@slicksalmon6948]

Woah...last second shot at mandolinists. Ugly and unnecessary.