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Vicki Genfan used to have a mute button that she would push while she twisted her guitar between the 31 different tunings she uses in her songs. The New Jersey singer-songwriter thought she was sparing the audience the drudgery of the technical details. Then she realized the details were exactly what they wanted. Now, she lets the audience in on everything they could possibly want to know about the offbeat, percussive “slap-tap” style that won her Guitar Player magazine’s “Guitar Superstar” title in 2008. She has a three-and-a-half hour instructional video. She talks to guitar nerds at length about her technique. And most importantly, the mute button is gone.“Depending on how I’ve ordered my set, going from one tuning to another may be particularly easy, or particularly challenging,” says Genfan. “Now I try to bring the audience into that, especially with the stranger tunings.” Her willingness to explain the method behind what is often shorthanded as guitar “magic” makes her a good match for this weekend’s sixth annual Guitar Festival, presented by the South Bay Guitar Society. Genfan will perform Friday night at the festival, at Le Petit Trianon Theatre in San Jose.—Steve Palopoli, sanjose.com
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