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Gustavo Assis-Brasil (born February 22, 1973)
is a Brazilian jazz guitarist. Based in Boston, he is considered a major pioneer in
organizing the study and development of the hybrid picking
technique,[1] for
guitar.[2] In 1999
he received a full scholarship to get his Master's degree at Berklee College of Music and
The Boston Conservatory. His main teachers were Mick Goodrick, Wayne Krantz, Ed
Tomassi, Dave
Fiuczynski, Rick Peckham, and Larry Baione. He has also studied
with Charlie
Banacos, and Prasanna. In 2005, Gustavo released the book
Hybrid Picking for Guitar. This book is the first method entirely
dedicated to the art of combining pick and fingers to play the
guitar. He is the director of the Jazz and Contemporary Music Department of the The Cambridge School of
Weston and he teaches at Berklee College of Music during the
Guitar Sessions.[3] He has
performed and recorded with artists like John Stowell, Tim Pascoal,
Frank Potenza, Richard Smith, Mauricio Zottarelli, Hiromi, Tony Grey
(John McLaughlin), Prasanna,
Greg Hopkins, Esperanza Spalding, Brett Wilmott,
Garo Saraydarian, Tony Gaboury, Matthew Nicholl, Tim Ries (The Rolling
Stones, Paul
Simon, Stevie
Wonder), Nelson
Faria, Renato Pereira (Dionne Warwick Band), Jose Pienasola (Elis Regina, Romero Lubambo,
Leny Andrade), Marina Elali, Michael Farquharson, Hiroaki Honshuku,
Winnie Dahlgren, Dough Johnson, Natalie Dietrich, Fernando Huergo,
among others.
References
- ^
[1], Hybrid Picking
For Guitar
- ^
[2], by Ben
McDonnell
- ^
[3], faculty
listing
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