Category Archives: Acoustic Guitar
Kenny Rankin Dead- Sad News
I just heard the news that the great singer songwriter guitar player Kenny Rankin has passed on. I am grateful to him for his beautiful music which I have listened to since the early seventies. Sending well wishes and Bluessing … Continue reading
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Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Arrangement – Part 4 Down By Sally Gardens
Here is Part 4 of my Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Arrangements. It’s a traditional song called Down By Sally Gardens. I’ve put this into the key of G so it is easy enough to play. It is a two page chart … Continue reading
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Acoustic Fingerstyle Arrangement Part 3 – Marees Wedding
Here is Part 3 of my Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangements. This is a tune called Maree’s Wedding (Marie’s Wedding), an old Irish tune with the words “Step we gaily on we go etc “. I’ve thrown it into the … Continue reading
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Acoustic Guitar Tapping Youtube
Here is a very interesting Acoustic Guitar video of a guitar player by the name of Justin King using acoustic guitar tapping techniques. Justin has an album called Bleu. To hear samples of Justins music, go to the website at the … Continue reading
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Acoustic Guitar Tony Hogan Websites and Google Search
I have just noticed a major change in the way that Google Search is indexing websites, blogs and social networks. So I thought I’d let new readers of this site know that I also have another very good acoustic guitar … Continue reading
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Don Alder Exploding Acoustic Guitar Youtube
Here is the great acoustic Guitar Player Don Alder on youtube video. He’s playing away and then it happens, the guitar explodes. For more information about Brunner Guitars go to the Brunner Guitar site
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Acoustic Fingerstyle Arrangement Part 2
Last week I wrote an Acoustic Finger Style GuitarArrangement of an old Irish Tune. This week I’ve done another reasonably simple acoustic guitar arrangement of another old Irish ballad called the Water is Wide. The arrangement I’ve done of this … Continue reading
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Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Arrangement Part 1
Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Arrangement – Gypsy Rover TAB and Notation What a lot of beginner guitarists don’t realise is many of the better guitar players have done is work on arrangements of tunes to help develop their playing and ear. … Continue reading
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Loren – Acoustic Guitar Player Part 3
Here’s Part 3 of my series on Acoustic Guitar Players Loren is an Australian musician who comes from Western Australia and now lives on the beauty NSW North Coast. He plays an acoustic style that falls into the category of … Continue reading
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Micheal Hedges Youtube – Harp Guitar
I’m surprised how many guitar players there are who have never heard of Michael Hedges, the brilliant innovative guitar player / composer who died in 1997. Many of the new players such as Andy McKee and all the other acoustic … Continue reading
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Pierre Bensusan Australian Tour – Stuns Audience with Breathtaking Brilliance
Some people had waited twenty five years to see Pierre Bensusan; others had heard a great guitar master was in town, and strangely enough there were those who just happened to turn up to the local venue for a night … Continue reading
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Gypsy Guitar Youtube
Regardless of what style of guitar you like, it would be very hard to deny the brilliance and beauty displayed in this Guitar Video on Youtube by Stochelo Rosenberg and Romane. They have taken aspects of what Django started and … Continue reading
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Peter Miller Acoustic Guitar Youtube
Here’s some very nice Steel String Acoustic Guitar by an Australian based Acoustic Guitarist called Peter Miller. Peter will be performing on the same bill as the great French based guitar player Pierre Bensusan at the Soundlounge on the Gold … Continue reading
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Acoustic Guitarist Earth Hour
Earth Hour Earth Hour from an Acoustic Guitarist point of View. So Earth Hour came and went here. It caught me on the back foot this year. I had been thinking of some ideas to save energy, like … Continue reading
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Acoustic Guitar Blogger Interview
Recently I had contact with one of the other guitar sites and they asked me to do an interview as part of their Guitar Hero series, not the virtual Guitar Hero, but one’s that have spent their lives fine tuning … Continue reading
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How to Improvise on Guitar – Part 5
A lot of guitar players I’ve met feel a little intimidated when they see anything more than a normal set of Major, Minor or Seventh chords. What I’ve done in this article is create a simple exercise to help train … Continue reading
Michael Hedges Youtube Harp Guitar
For those of you who remember the great (late) Michael Hedges, here is in action. I was also most interested when Jazz Guitar player Pat Martino recorded with Michael Hedges on Both Sides Now (Martino album). Many may not be … Continue reading
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Norman Savitt – Acoustic Guitar Player Part 2
Norman Savitt Here’s Part 2 of my posts about Acoustic Guitar Players. This one is about Norman Savitt To quote from the Balkan Records Site “Norman Savitt is a unique acoustic guitarist with a versatility, texture and expression that … Continue reading
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Dan Tharp – Acoustic Guitar Player Part 1
The beauty of the Blog / Web technology that we have at our finger tips now is it gives people like myself who like people and music the ability to quickly put information out to a broad audience. Readers of … Continue reading
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Gordon Giltarp Youtube – Cakewalk Blues
You may or may not be familiar with the guitarist Gordon Giltrap, but for those of you that have heard of the brilliant Scottish Jazz guitar player Martin Taylor, Gordon has recorded with Martin. For me that was a surprise … Continue reading
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Pierre Bensusan Australian Tour Schedule
A number of people have had trouble finding out info about the Pierre Bensusan Tour and Workshops If you love acoustic guitar it would a tragedy to miss Bensusan Live APRIL 2009 1-26 AUSTRALIA 3 GOLD COAST, QLD The Sound Lounge, Currumbin RSL, Currumbin … Continue reading
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Phil Keaggy Youtube Legacy
Here is a tune on Yotube Video by the great acoustic fingerstye guitar player Phil Keaggy. It starts off as a reasonably simple tune but then develops with some rather interesting techniques, it’s a very nice acoustic piece. I was recently introduced … Continue reading
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John Cephas – Moves On
The guitar world was saddened by the death of Blues Player John Cephas For further news about the passing of John Cephas News To go the official site of John Cephas With Deepest Respect and Condolences to Johns Family
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Guitar Weekend Workshop Los Angeles
GUITAR WEEKEND WORKSHOP in LA by OUTSTANDING SESSION PLAYER – Greg Poree As a musician myself who has played guitar for near 40 years, it astonishes me how much information is now available for musicians / guitarists who are wanting … Continue reading
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How to Get Back into Playing Guitar After You Forgot You Had One
Over the years I’ve noticed that a lot of guitar players start playing, then they hit points in their life where other things take over and music drops to the background, their guitar that they so passionately treasured just … Continue reading
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How To Improvise on Guitar – Part 4
This is a short tutorial which is easier than it may look to some players who can’t read music dots. The Guitar TAB will get you through it. Ok, What is it all about. Sure, the chords have funny names, … Continue reading
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Tommy Emmanuel Youtube Guitar Lesson
You’ll love this. Tommy Emmanuel a giving an Acoustic Blues Guitar lesson in the key of E, it’s called Stevie’s Blues, as in Stevie Ray Vaughan. Please note: Since I first posted this article, unfortunately it has been removed because … Continue reading
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Paul McCartney Michelle
Paul McCartney playing Michelle, do I need to say anything else.
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Jimmy Page and Roy Harper Youtube
Now this IS interesting. Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin and Roy Harper playing Acoustic Guitars out in the country doing Hangman, the tune that Led Zeppelin did and scared the living daylights out of everyone. It’s from around 1984 and … Continue reading
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How to Improvise on Guitar – Part 3 of 6
More Very Cool Guitar Improvisation Tutorials to Help you navigate through some chord changes. Here’s Part 3 of How to Improvise on guitar. The TAB and Guitar Music Notation above relates to soloing over two simple chords an A … Continue reading
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Bob Dylan Youtube – Mr Tamborine Man
A week or so back I was standing in sa book shop in Byron Bay and this song came on and I was dumb-struck for a few minutes, I couldn’t leave until it was over. Bob Dylan with his signature … Continue reading
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How to Improvise on Guitar – Part 2 of 6
DO YOU WANT A LITTLE EXTRA BLUES GUITAR SKILLS? Try the following tutorial, add something new every day and you’ll feel better about your guitar playing. Here is my second post in the series of How to Improvise on Guitar. … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Bernard Fanning Youtube – Watch Over Me
Bernard Fanning is an Australian Singer Songwriter Guitar Player and in his other parallel incarnation is the lead singer of a band called Powderfinger. This youtube Acoustic Guitar video is of Bernard Fanning performing one of his solo tunes called … Continue reading
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Great Singer Guitarist Albums
It’s almost 2009 so I thought I’d write a short article on my favourite acoustic guitar singer songwriter albums. The ones that I think are a standout. Yes there are many others but I love these ones. This beautiful album … Continue reading
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Steve Howe Youtube – Yes Mood For a Day
Anyone who was alive, conscious and listening to music in the early seventies would have been aware of the British band called Yes with Steve Howe on guitar. Yes were very experimental in their style and were up there at … Continue reading
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Tim Sparks Youtube – Acoustic Guitar
Tim Sparks is a great fingerstyle acoustic guitar player. If you asked me who were the top ten acoustic fingerstyle players that I like, Tim Sparks would be on my list. I particularly like the album One String Leads to … Continue reading
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Antoine Dufour Youtube – Acoustic Guitar
Here’s another great youtube by Canadian guitar player Antoine Dufour. He has one of the smoothest left hand fretting techniques I’ve seen in a long time. Great harmonics and artificial harmonics, as well as a sensible taping technique, he … Continue reading
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Stefan Grossman Youtube Guitar Video
Here’s a great tune by Stefan Grossman’called Bermuda Triangle Exit recorded in 1977, it’s one I learnt about 30 years and still play to this day. It’s written in the style of Jerry Reed the great guitar player who died … Continue reading
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John Martyn Youtube – Bless the Weather
Here’s a youtube from 1978 of the very , brilliant John Martyn doing Bless the Weather. John Martyn was very inspired by his contemporary Nick Drake. In fact Solid Air was in dedication to Nick Drake. John Martyn is one … Continue reading
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Guitar Players Support World AIDS Day
Acoustic Guitar Players Support World AIDS day. As usual the crew over at BLOGCATALOG, the home away from home of every great blogger and sensible Web Developer, are doing there best to help create a more peaceful, healthy happy world … Continue reading
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Japanese Scale for Guitar – Tony Hogan
Guitar Players are always looking for scales with a difference. Here is a simple Japanese scale that I learnt about thirty five years ago from an Australian jazz guitar player called George Golla. With these type of scales it’s … Continue reading
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