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DADGAD Fingestyle Blues TAB and Music Notation
I woke this morning and virtually everything I touched just didn’t happen, I set out to rework a blues variation in G as an educational piece and it went skewiff. So since I was in a Blues mentality, I decided to reposat a DADGAD fingerstyl...
Gypsy Rover DADGAD Arrangement TAB
A year or so ago I published a simple but very musical sounding DADGAD Arrangement of the old tune Gypsy Rover. I have decided to republish it because the previous web page no longer exists due to a weird turn of we events. A lot of the music I ...
Blues Scale - Brand New Invention - Super Blues in E
NEW BLUES SCALE BREAKTHROUGH The standard blues scale has been around for quite some time, also the country blues scale, the one that is really a C# blues scale played over songs in the key of E. I’m reasonably confident that I have invent...
Dominic Frasca youTube
Dominic Frasca may not be familiar to a lot of guitar players, but he’s worth checking out. He’s extremely innovative and is one of the players that is now expanding the possibilities of the guitar. As guitar players it’s import...
Pierre Bensusan youTube
Pierre Bensusan is was that good as a guitar player in the mid nineteen eighties that the great (late) Michael Hedges recorded a song in dedication to him on the Aerial Boundaries album, the song was called Bensusan. After Michael Hedges died, Pie...
Jack Johnson and Ben Harper youTube
Jack Johnson, the man that has redifined the word ‘relax’ and Ben Harper, a player that has always managed to player with a maturity way beyond his age. To have them together is quite a treat. For quite a few years during the eighties...
Joni Mitchell Youtube Big Yellow Taxi
I’ve always l;oved Joni Mitchells guitar playing. And as you may know she went on to play with some of the worlds great musicians, such as the late Jaco Pastorias, Pat Metheny and others. This song Big Yellow Taxi, although simple in struc...
Narciso Yepes - Classical Guitar
I generally don’t write about clasical guitar as I stick pretty much to steel string. But I think it’s important to be aware of all the different styles and approaches. So I have decided to post about Narciso yepes. Narciso is one of my...
John Butler - The Ocean youTube
John Butler is one of the great contemporay guitar players that manages to be be cool enough to fit nicely into the contemporay acoustic rock market but is well respected by his peers. He’s no slouch as a guitarist, is very popular in Austra...
Brilliant Acoustic Guitar - Andy Mckee youTube
Andy McKee is definitely one of the most interesting guitar players I’ve heard since Michael Hedges. There have been quite a few guitar players that have attempted to do the Hedges style of open tuning/ percussive /hammer-on pull off approac...
Twelve Guitar Tips for Getting Rid of Guitar Cobwebs
Many guitar players that I have met have managed to play at very high standard but due to life’s circumstances they found themselves in situations where they virtually stopped playing guitar. It could be because family, disillusionment with the m...
Singer Guitarist Performance Tips
Have you ever been to watch a guitarist play and he/she spend so much time frigging around on the stage before they start playing the first song that you are already wishing you hadn’t bothered going to see them? Regardless whether it be blues,...
Open Tuning Guitar - Beautiful Guitar Recording
Although technology can sometimes get in our way and make some very simple things complex, example you make a phone call and end up speaking to a robot that doesn’t recognise your dialect when you answer a simple ‘yes/no’ question...
DADGAD Scale D Major
I’ve uploaded this free DADGAD guitar notation and tab scale for you to download. For anyone that’s new here DADGAD is another way of tuning the guitar. It’s been popular for a number of guitar players for about 30 years or so...
C open tuning arrangement for guitar
I was sitting around this morning and listening to an album that I haven’t listened to for a few weeks now. I like acoustic guitar recordings a lot, but I also like to explore other material. The album that I was listening to was by the Swe...
