This youtube features David Crosby. Crosby, the first name in the awesome band Crosby, Stills, Nash and later on, Young. He may not have had the same success solo as did Neil Young, but it was his solo stuff and material with Graham Nash that I always was most fascinated by. His voice and his [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 30, 2008
Rockabilly Blues – Part 1 of 3
The Rockabilly Blues that I have written the Guitar Tab and Music Notation for is the first of a series of three. Once you get this one worked out play it fast but make sure it is in time. It will roll off your fingers in no time. It’s important as a guitar player to [...]
May 29, 2008
Rockabilly Blues Riff for Guitar in G
Blues Rockabilly Riff, I wrote this a few minutes ago. I was thinking a little about Flatt and Scruggs the great Bluegrass players and I picked up the nearest guitar that I could find, which happened to be my semi-acoustic Ibanez 105N, pictured below. I was going to write a Bluegrass type of tune and [...]
May 29, 2008
Dan Fogelberg youTube Acoustic guitar
I first heard Dan Fogelberg around the time that Souvenirs came out. In fact one of my all time favourite songs is Wysteria of the Homefree album If you want to do the Acoustic Guitar Singer Songwriter thing, thisis how to do it. A poem, a story a ballad, a simple melody and a guitar [...]
May 28, 2008
the-guitarplayer.com is up and running again
The Guitar Player site is now back up and running after some unscheduled maintenance. The most recent posts are about Paco de Lucia, Norman Blake, ……………………………………………………………………… Just a message about my other guitar player blog at the-guitarplayer.com is currently down and may be so for 24 hours. Tony
May 28, 2008
James Taylor youTube Fire and Rain
James Taylor playing Fire and Rain, his flawless fingerpicking on an Olsen guitar is a reminder how a well written song can stand up over time. This acoustic guitar recording is about ten years old now. Gone is the hair, and the face is a little older but the silky tenor voice still has a gorgeous texture. [...]
May 26, 2008
Keith Richards Youtube Acoustic Blues in A
Keith Richards playing acoustic Blues guitar. If you are a Rolling Stones fan you’ve got to see this youtube video of ‘Keef’ playing acoustic guitar in the key of A, 32 20 Blues, Robert Johnson style. Complete with ‘tude and ‘ciggie’ hangin’ out of mouth. I love the tone of the old Gibson guitar. In [...]
May 25, 2008
Eurovision Song Contest Highlights
Eurovision Song Contest Highlights Each year I wait for the Eurovision song Contest with more than a 100 million viewers. To hear a mix of the different culural music mixed with commercial music is always an interesting experience and I look forward to hearing music that has some sort of integrity. What turns me off usually [...]
May 25, 2008
Joni Mitchell Youtube – Guitar Open Tuning
Joni Mitchell is one of the truly great acoustic guitar innovators. A lot of people that aren’t guitar addicts may not realize how great she is and would just see her as a good songwriter, poet and singer. Don’t be fooled by those labels, her contribution to open tuned acoustic guitar is almost unparalleled. Others such [...]
May 24, 2008
Acoustic Guitar Made Easy or Easier
Acoustic guitar can be made easy and here’s two fantastic tips that you probably wouldn’t have considered. Do you ever have the problem that when you haven’t played acoustic guitar for a while or when you’ve bought a new guitar, it’s not that easy to play; holding down the strings seems almost impossible and you [...]
May 22, 2008
Guitar Scale C Major – A Smoother Way
You know when you are playing guitar scales and your fingers get a bit caught up and it’s difficult to move up to another fret and it feels a little clumsy? Well here’s a simple solution that could easily fix that problem once and for all. Generally in rock or jazz, most players will play [...]
May 18, 2008
Country Guitar Scale in the Key of A – Part 2
The Country Guitar Scale as I mentioned in my previous Country Guitar Scale article is none other than an F# Minor Blues scale starting on A. Because there is a relationship between F sharp minor and the key of A major it works beautifully. Try using a standard chord pattern like A F#m D E7, [...]
May 17, 2008
The Gap Between the Worlds mp3
Dedicated To My Son Joshua (1980 – 1999) A few years ago I recorded a piece of music called ‘The Gap Between the Worlds’ it seems a relevant time to share it with my friends. It’s in open-tuning and is a little ambient and has a certain amount of beauty in it. To add beauty [...]
May 16, 2008
David Wilcox Youtube
My first encounter with the music of David Wilcox was when I read an Acoustic Guitar Magazine in the early 90′s. A few years later when they named the top 10 acoustic guitar albums, his album ‘How Did You Find Me Here’ was included in the list. I’m not surprised. David Wilcox plays mainly open [...]
May 14, 2008
Guitar Bloggers Unite for Human Rights
Today is a very important day, many guitar players may not be aware of the importance of it. Once we are aware of something, from that moment on we have the choice to act upon it if it appeals to our intelligence / conscience / heart. So here’s my story. I’ve always had a knack of [...]
May 12, 2008
A Country Scale for Guitar Improvisation
Country Guitar Scales are the same as Blues Guitar Scales. If you are playing a country or folk song on guitar in the key of A, the chances are you would be using the chords A. D and E. Yes there are a lot of other chords you could use as well but I thought it [...]
May 11, 2008
Guitar Blogs and Directories – Open Letter
Guitar Blogs and Directories; Dear Fellow Internet Developers As each day goes by I am starting to see my guitar posts and content appear on websites from one side of the Internet to the other. As a musician of almost 40 years experience I am more than happy to aid other musicians in their development as I [...]
May 10, 2008
Gordon Giltrap youtube
Gordon Giltrap recorded an excellent album in the seventies (1977) . At the time, my memory tells me he was playing Flyde guitars, a guitar company that made a lot of unique instrument. If you haven’t heard him and you like beautiful guitar playing I suggest you watch this youTube. It’s called Mrs Singers Waltz, [...]
May 9, 2008
Seventies Style Acoustic Guitar Part 2
Acoustic guitar players in the seventies often played a lot of musical cliches, no problem really, it is really common to all styles. I’ve written a reasonably simple chord pattern with a descending bass part. Whenm you play it you’ll say, oh where have I heard that? The answer is everywhere. The first bar is [...]
May 8, 2008
Steven Baughman YouTube – Three Irish Tunes
Steven Baughman is a magnificentopen tuning fingerstyle guitar player. I first heard of himabout 8 years ago when I was playing Celtic style guitar and from memory Pierre Bensusan had mentioned how good he was, so I followed through on therecommendation. Traditional Celtic tunes are not only beautiful to listen to but as a player [...]
May 8, 2008
David Qualey youTube – Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring
The David Qualey youTube recording of Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring by Bach is a very interesting one, although the song has been played by many guitarists globally on classical guitar, his interpretation is rather unique. You’ll notice it’s very realaxed and very musical and it’s not stiff like a lot of recordings or performances [...]
May 6, 2008
John Renbourn and Stefan Grossman Youtube
If you are a regular reader of my guitar blog you would already know that John Renbourn and Stefan Grossman are two of my all time acoustic guitar favorite players, if you have not heard of themm you are in for a treat. I’ve posted this youtube guitar duet of them because it is a [...]
May 1, 2008
Acoustic Blues Guitar – youTube Stefan Grossman
You may be familiar with Stefan Grossman from the many guitar instruction videos and books. One of my all time favourite guitar albums is called Thunder on the Run and I particularly like Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn playing duets together. Stefan has also done brilliant work with Duck Baker. Apart from being a guitar [...]
May 1, 2008
Eric Bibb – Blues Guitar on 12 string youTube
The blues can be very simple and even broken down to one chord or riff, the most common blues are generally three chords; or you could go to the other extreme and play a jazz blues with numerous chord changes. Regardless whether we play a complex or a simple blues, the end result needs t [...]
