Monthly Archives: September 2007

Woman guitar players — go home and practice guys

When I first started playing guitar almost 40 years ago, it was very much a male thing.  Generally if females played guitar it would be classical guitar – read dots play Bach ( by the way I love Bach) or … Continue reading

3 Comments

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar

How to play a song your way

Over the years I’ve met hundreds and hundreds of guitar players that are trying to make music but are not really happy with what they do.  There is a natural desire for many guitarists to be successful. Watching the Idol … Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, MUSIC

Air Guitar – the acoustic set

It’s very easy to get over serious sometimes.  So as a type of music therapy I was considering the idea of air guitar for acoustic guitarists.   For anyone that is not up to speed on air guitar, think guitar performance … Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, MUSIC

The bardo – dedicated to Joshua

Every now and then we do some daring things.  And this is one of them This is about music that comes from another place or part of ourselves.  In 1999 my teenage son suicided.  A short time after I decided … Continue reading

50 Comments

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, MUSIC

Acoustic Guitar player makeover

Hi A quick post to let you know I’ve given the acoustic guitar player Blogspot Blog a make over.  …clear eyes for the musical guy

Leave a Comment

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, acousticguitar

Learn the guitar fretboard

I have uploaded a guitar fretboard tutorial.  It is to help guitar self learners understand the notes on the fretboard.  It is in MS word. I will make the pdf version available over the next 24 hours  Click on the  Acoustic … Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, acousticguitar, MUSIC

Acoustic guitar blog

I’ve been looking around at a lot of the other guitar blogs to see what people are writing/ blogging about.  There’s a lot of people trying to sell their lessons, I guess ‘why not’ because guitar players need to make a … Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, acousticguitar, MUSIC

Acoustic Guitar Players

It’s worthwhile every now and then to take a listen to some different guitar players.  In America in 1976 it was estimated that there were appromiately 16 milion who owned a guitar.  Thirty years later we could only guess how … Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, MUSIC

Acoustic guitar on growth steroids

Acoustic guitar design has changed a lot of over the years.  I was going to continue my article on ‘what makes a good guitar player’ but the workload took over.  So I thought I’d write a short post about some of … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under acoustic

What makes a good guitar player?

So what does make a good guitar player?  Depends on who you ask, doesn’t it?  And maybe there needs to be an understanding before we get too far into it, that the question wasn’t  ‘what makes good music?’ Occassionally those two questions can meet, … Continue reading

7 Comments

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, acousticguitar, MUSIC

Acoustic Guitar site

The acoustic guitar site is now up,  it is one of many and is still in its early stages. the-acoustic-guitar.com It will be covering certain areas of guitar.

Leave a Comment

Filed under Acoustic Guitar

acoustic guitarist

Acoustic Guitarist, that looks good on a business card doesn’t it?  If you are planning a career in music, sitting around practicing 12 hours a day and woodshedding to get your skills up, it is not enough, there are pieces missing.  You … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under acoustic, MUSIC

Acoustic Guitar Player Competition

Guitar players as a rule can be very competitive.  There’s an up side and a down side to this of course.  The upside being,  it can be part of the motivating force that drives us to be better guitar players, … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under acoustic, MUSIC

how to make your guitar practice musical

Practicing the guitar is a bit like life, you can do it the hard way or be easy on yourself.  If you do it the hard way you’ll end up being frustrated and your music won’t feel right.  Believe me, there … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, MUSIC

great playing …that was a really good half a song

Ever noticed how lots of guitar players sit around and start playing a song…and stop…and doodle on the guitar and then play another half or sixteenth of a song, then a bit of an intro and so on.  Does this sound familiar?  … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, MUSIC