Pierre Bensusan is one of my two favourite fingerstyle acoustic guitarists, the other being the late Michael Hedges. Bensusan is the master of DADGAD tuning. The song that he is doing, from my memory was an old O’Carolan tune about a battle between two groups of warring fairies. I like Bensusan because he takes a [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 29, 2008
Badi Assad Youtube Harmonics Lesson
Badi Assad is a very brilliant contemporary classical guitar player from Brazil, she is sister of the famous Assad brothers. In this Youtube Video she is demonstrating how to play harmonics. Also at one point she starts singinging as well, it reminds of a tune by the legendary Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento. Brilliant, musical and [...]
August 29, 2008
Acoustic Guitar Youtube Antoine DuFour
Every now and then I discover a new guitar player (to join the database of thousands in my head) and it’s great to share these players with you. This guy is called Antoine Dufour, he’s French Canadian born in Quebec, he’s inspired by Kottke and Hedges. He’s got a great tapping and harmonics technique. It’s [...]
August 25, 2008
Jan Akkerman Youtube Semi Acoustic
Jan Akkerman was a member of Focus, think Hocus Pocus in the seventies and seeing him live back then was by far one of the highlights of my musical life. His tone on electric guitar back then was sweeter than most, the only others I could compare to would be Leslie West or Santana for [...]
August 21, 2008
Acoustic Guitarist – Golden Age
The Acoustic Guitar is something that I believe to be in a constant transitory phase. C F Martin led us out of the gut string stage into the steel string and such others such as the Larsons Brothers and the Stella guitars helped pioneer where we are at now. But everything changes, currently in India we have the Mohan [...]
August 17, 2008
John Renbourn Youtube Acoustic Guitar
John Renbourn the British guitarist has been at the forefront of acoustic fingerstyle guitar for many years now, he is a former member of the band Pentangle, and recored some extraordinary music with American Guitar Player / Historian Stefan Grossman. This youtube has him doing Sandwood down to Kyle, it’s in DADGAD tuning, the tuning that Davey Graham [...]
August 14, 2008
Sting Youtube Fragile Acoustic Guitar
A great guitar teacher of mine said to me about 35 years ago that every guitar player at some point falls in love with the nylon string guitar. Although I like to hear straight classical well played, I really like to listen to players playing nlon string in another musical style. The nylon string always [...]
August 12, 2008
Worlds Best Guitar Player – by Tony Hogan
Who is the worlds best guitar player? Somebody asked in one of my surveys the other day whether I was the worlds best guitar player. It always makes me laugh because the idea of anyone being the best guitar player in the world really depends on who is deciding. Ánd as I’ve stated before in [...]
August 10, 2008
Keb Mo Youtube Blues Guitar
Keb Mo has become very popular amongst a lot of blues, folk and acoustic roots enthusiasts. What I like about Keb Mo is he can comfortably play across styles, I’ve also heard him do electric playing that remindered me of Benson at times. This youtube video has him playing the standard Folsom Prison on a resonator [...]
August 8, 2008
Paul Simon Youtube
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel inspired many pop and folk singers to run out and buy an acoustic guitar. To watch Paul Simon develop as a musician over the years is a music lesson in itself. Graceland, the song has possibly one of the best lyric lines ever “the Mississipi Delta is shinng like a [...]
August 6, 2008
Keith Richards Youtube Video Satisfaction Blues
This Keith Richards Youtube video is very short but will be of great interest to a lot of guitar players because he does a simple disection of the song Satisfaction, as in I can’t get no Satisfaction, the tune that the Rolling Stones made very famous. In this video he explains how it is really just a [...]
August 5, 2008
Jeff Traugott Guitar Maker
A few days back I wrote a short article mentioning a great guitar maker called Jim Olson. In that article I said I thought it was a good idea to introduce a lot of players that ae only used to mainstream guitars (of all qualities) to some other guitar makers. Some years ago, Acoustic Guitar [...]
August 2, 2008
American Folk Guitar
Today I was fortunate to be in a shop buying a present, a Sudoku board game for a family member. I’ve heard that solving puzzles is very good for keeping the brain active, especially when you are getting older. I guess it’s a bit like understanding and working with music theory, specifically improvisation, chord substitution and harmony. [...]
