David Ziegele -- Fingerstyle Guitar

David Ziegele has been a guitarist, guitar teacher, music transcriber, and guitar collector for more than thirty years.  He plays fingerstyle acoustic guitar in folk, ragtime, jazz, and blues styles, as well as acoustic slide guitar.  David's latest product is a book of transcriptions of ten Wayne Henderson solo guitar pieces, published by the Hal Leonard Corporation under the name Bluegrass Guitar--Ten Solo Classics for Flatpicking and Fingerstyle.

Guitar Books

In 2006, David completed a tablature book of all the songs from Wayne Henderson's solo guitar CD Made & Played.  Click here for a full description and information on how to order.  You can also check out a sample of the tablature and listen to sound clips of Wayne's unreleased recording of "Lime Rock" as well as excerpts from other tunes in the tab book.

Early in December, Hal Leonard Corporation published a book of ten of David's transcriptions of Wayne's tunes, with an accompanying CD:  Bluegrass Guitar--Ten Solo Classics for Flatpicking and Fingerstyle. Six of the tunes are from Made & Played, and are therefore included in the earlier tab book.  Four of the tunes are outtakes from Made & Played, so this is the first time they've been available on CD.  The tab to one of the tunes, "Lime Rock," was in the Made & Played tab book, but the tabs to three others--"Snowflake Reel," "Fisher's Hornpipe," and "Twinkle Little Star"--have never been published before.  The book is now available at a variety of music and book stores.  Here's the link to Elderly Instruments' listing:  Wayne Henderson--Bluegrass Guitar

Music

David is currently working on a commercial CD of solo guitar arrangements of Protestant hymns.  Click here for more information and sound clips of his earlier recordings of favorite hymns.  On the same page are some clips from earlier solo guitar recordings.   

Services

For the last few years, David has provided custom transcriptions and arrangements of guitar music.  However, because of other responsibilities, he has had to put this work on hold. 

You can click here for samples of transcriptions David has done in the past, as well as some Tips on Transcribing guitar music from recordings.

Bio

David was born and raised in central Illinois.  In addition to his life-long musical activities, he worked for many years at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Peace Corps, which included service as a volunteer in Togo, West Africa.  He retired from Federal service in 2005 and now works as a management consultant, musician, and president of the board of a charitable non-profit organization.  He and his wife live in the Washington, DC area with Tika, the racing greyhound, now retired.    

Contact Information

For general information and to flag issues with the website: Fingerstyle2@aol.com

Last modified: 4/20/2010