About Rocky
About Rocky Tee
Rocky T. Duckworth (Rocky Tee) was born in Tifton, Georgia. Rocky went to school and grew up on a farm in Worth County. Rocky graduated from Worth County High School and then attended United Electronics in Tampa Florida and Albany Tech where he graduated with a degree in electronics.
Rocky Tees' first guitar instruction manual was published in Nashville TN. in 1987. This book is endorsed by several including John Knowles, guitar teacher at Blair School Of Music (Vanderbilt) in Nashville,TN., and a published author of Mel Bay. Fred Newell, lead guitarist on TNN's The Nashville Now show with Ralph Emery and more.
Being from a musical family Rocky has played guitar for over four decades. He has played around the world in concerts, clubs, churches, and studios. Rocky started playing as a child in the early 60's and played lead guitar in his uncles band at age eleven. Since then, Rocky has played venues from Rock guitarist to church pianist, soloist to orchestra and with several groups opening for or with major acts.
While playing gigs most nights Rocky worked, managed & owned Alvarez, ESP, Pearl, Fender, Gibson, Peavey, Roland, Taylor, Yamaha...musical instrument sales and service centers from Albany, Georgia to Nashville, TN.. since the late 70's.
Rocky Tee developed a style of picking called Teepickin. He uses a thumbpick and combines fingerpicking, thumbpicking, sweeps and flatpicking. Rocky loves and plays all styles of music. He is acomplished on several string instruments as well as piano/keyboards and vocals.
Rocky is a graduate of electronics and audio. He is an authorized guitar and electronic technician. He teaches, records, and writes music instruction books in his home studios in Nashville,Tennessee and Sylvester,Georgia.
Rocky has worked with such names as Ringo Starr, Edgar Winters, Gary Wright, Colin Haye, Stuart Hamish, Hank Thompson, SmokeDream, Autumn, Jeff Bates, Sherwood, The Worth Brothers, The DuckWorth Brothers and more in production and/or playing.
Rocky currently owns Rockys Music and Rockys Theatre where he performs concerts & clinics, retails musical instruments, teaches music classes and repairs instruments.
