His style is informally classified as "acoustic percussive fingerstyle" guitar. But these are hardly adequate words to describe the experience of Gary Seber's music flooding over you, or bearing witness to his fingers flying over wound steel and carved wood. His debut album, Candle Power, features the highly innovative but little-known technique of playing the neck of an open-tuned guitar, coaxing an amazing abundance of sound from the solo instrument.
As with many on the cutting edge of new musical expression, music has been an integral part of Gary's life from a very young age. His mother, an elementary school music teacher, started him off with a ukulele at age nine, and soon after he discovered the guitar. Gary spent thirteen young years in England and three years in Singapore, returning to the States brimming with the influence of legends such as James Taylor, Leo Kotke, Neil Young and the Beatles. With his discovery of guitarist Preston Reed, he proceeded to teach himself this entirely new way of playing the guitar. His mastery of this new medium naturally evolved into his composition of a variety of original material.
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