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 work through a Carcassi Method or the alternative was do the folk strummy thing (without [...]
Entries from September 2007
September 30, 2007
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 series will give you an idea what many people consider to be important. Ok, to [...]
September 29, 2007
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 minus one thing – the guitar itself. A lot of us are familiar with the [...]
September 27, 2007
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
September 26, 2007
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 guitar fretboard to download > Select save > choose a location to save and remember the location [...]
September 26, 2007
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 living, but I guess the question arises about whether they can play or teach, that’s [...]
September 19, 2007
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 many guitarists there are now, and many people will know an unknown guitar player of exceptional standard. [...]
September 16, 2007
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 the changes happening in guitar. One of the most notable ones is the Baritone guitar…think [...]
September 14, 2007
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, but not always. If you really want to find out how good the music is [...]
September 13, 2007
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.
September 10, 2007
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 could be the greatest player of all time (and even look good as well) , [...]
September 5, 2007
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, the down side is, that if we’re not careful we can end up being over [...]
September 2, 2007
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 are ways of making guitar practice enjoyable. But like many things that we wish to [...]
September 1, 2007
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? One of the things lacking in many players is the ability to complete, to follow [...]
