Eureka Hotel (performance)
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Al PettewayAl Petteway performs his fingerstyle tune 'Eureka Hotel' on acoustic guitar. Watch closely and play along with the interactive notation.
What's in the course
14 lessons (1h 25m) · 1 free
01. Spindrift (performance)
Free lesson3:36
02. Spindrift (lesson)
9:05
03. Eureka Hotel (performance)
You are here3:12
04. Eureka Hotel (lesson)
9:47
05. She Moved Through The Fair (performance)
2:34
06. She Moved Through The Fair (lesson)
9:05
07. Meant To Be (performance)
3:59
08. Meant To Be (lesson)
10:25
09. Smokey Mountain Morning (performance)
4:53
10. Smokey Mountain Morning (lesson)
9:21
11. The West Wind (performance)
3:34
12. The West Wind (lesson)
9:48
13. BONUS: After Dark
3:34
14. BONUS: Requiem (performance)
2:37
Lesson transcript
The Joy of Traveling and Inspiration in Music
One of the greatest things about playing music for a living is that you get to travel around a little bit.
And especially now that I'm married, I get to travel with my wife, and we get to stay in some really cool little towns.
A Memorable Stay in Jonesboro, Tennessee
One of the places that we really, really enjoyed was a little town in Jonesboro, Tennessee.
- It's the oldest town in Tennessee.
- It has this very old hotel.
- We stayed in the oldest room in the old hotel in the old town.
One day, while sitting out on the porch, this feeling just sort of came to me.
So, I named this tune Eureka Hotel.
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Meet your guru
Meet your guru
A Grammy Award winning recording artist and performer, Al Petteway has played nearly every type of popular, folk and classical music. Though his primary instrument has always been the guitar, he has also studied lute, string bass, percussion and music composition. His compositions for acoustic fingerstyle guitar are strongly influenced by his love of Celtic music and his own roots in folk, rock and blues - exactly the territory he opens up in his MusicGurus course, Celtic, Blues and Beyond.
In Celtic, Blues and Beyond, Al shares the open tunings, fingerstyle techniques and melodic approach behind his sound, showing you how to fuse Celtic phrasing with folk, rock and blues feel so you can find your own voice on the acoustic guitar.
Al was awarded forty-five "Wammies" by the Washington Area Music Association, including the top honors of "Artist of the Year" and "Musician of the Year". He was the recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards for Music Composition and has performed at the Vice President's House and The White House. His playing is featured on more than sixty recordings by some of the world's best known Folk and Celtic musicians. In 2005, he was voted one of the Top Fifty Acoustic Guitarists of all Time by the readers of Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and in 2008 he won Silver and Bronze medals in the magazine's Player's Choice Awards. His CD "Caledon Wood" was voted one of the "Essential Albums of the Past Twenty Years" in Acoustic Guitar Magazine's 20th anniversary issue, and his 2012 release "It's Only the Blues" was included on two of the Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Editor's "Top Ten Essential Albums of 2012" lists. In 2014 and 2015, he released two more solo albums, "Mountain Guitar" and "Dream Guitars, Vol. II."
"An innovative instrumentalist known for his open tunings, Petteway offers a rich, dulcet sound that features a fusion of old and new."
--The Boston Globe
