I sadly have just heard the news that the great John Martyn has passed on. The Rolling Stone Article John Martyn Dead I’m sure may guitars across the world are grateful for his beautiful music. Here is a simple audio youtube of his beautiful song Head and Heart Bless the Weather Post
Entries from January 2009
January 31, 2009
Cold Play Acoustic Youtube – Chris Martin Solo
It’s always very healthy to hear some of the more famous musicians and band members without a band, just a guitar and voice. It helps the guitar player who is just starting out to put things into perspective and to take away the mystery and hype which builds up due to marketing, production and technology. [...]
January 28, 2009
How to Improvise on Guitar – Part 1 of 6
A lot of guitar players get a little stuck when they go it improvise. They’ll play scales for hours to get the fingers going but it oesn’t sound musical. About 30 years ago I really got stuck into all the modes and scales and became a very fast player, but in the end, that’s what [...]
January 22, 2009
Acoustic Guitar Chords for Duets
HOW TO PLAY CHORDS WITH OTHER ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYERS Often as an acoustic guitar player you will find yourself in a situation where there is more than one guitar player playing chords. For me there is nothing more annoying than hearing two or three guitar players playing the same chords at the same time, a [...]
January 19, 2009
Paco De Lucia Youtube Flamenco
Here’s a very interesting video of the great flamenco guitar player Paco de Lucia. The tune is called Solea. As many would realise, Paco is a very adventurous guitar playr that has explored other areas of music apart from flamenco guitar, he toured extensively with the great jazz rock guitar players John McLaughlin and Al [...]
January 14, 2009
Peter Mulvey Youtube Acoustic Guitar
I found this guy Peter Mulvey by accident and I thought it would be nice to share his playing with you. It’s very thoughtful acoustic guitar and this tune also has some nice harmonics and tapping, so as a fellow guitar player I totally appreciate what he does . Peter is also a singer songwriter, [...]
January 7, 2009
Salif Keita Youtube Mali
This youtube acoustic guitar video is of the great musician Salif Keita from Mali in Africa. Salif is an albino desecendant of a a great leader of a warrior tribe. He moved from Mali to other parts of Africa and mixed his music with elements from the Ivory Coast and Senegal. He became successful after [...]
January 6, 2009
Mississipi John Hurt Youtube – Blues
Mississipi John Hurt is a Blues and Country Blues Legend. The youtube guitar video tune is called You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley. Notice his alternating bass notes If you want some very cool country blues guitar scales that work beautiful to improvise over those sort of tunes, see my article that includes the [...]
January 2, 2009
Ralph Towner Youtube – Icarus
Ralph Towner the guitarist from the band Oregon, the brilliant improvisational quartet, holds a place in the Earths history and the expeditions to the moon. When the Apollo astronauts travelled to the moon they had a cassette of Ralph Towners music. They ended up naming two of the Moons craters after his tunes Icarus and [...]
January 2, 2009
J D Souther Youtube
If you ever owned John David Souther’s Black Rose album you’ll understand why I have posted this old youtube video. The Black Rose album came out in about 1976 and personally I think it is possibly one of the best albums in that style to be released in that period. It had songs like Faithless [...]
