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Chema Lara canta Feliz Navidad
Chema Lara Web Blog | December 23rd 2009 by Chema Lara
Esta mañana he acudido a la llamada de Cope de la Sierra para participar en un programa especial de Navidad desde el Centro Cultural Peñalba, en Collado Villalba, en el que he interpretado una canción de mi disco “Queda tiempo de sobra” read more
John O'Hara - Fingerstyle Guitar Free Album Download
Call it Folk Music | November 3rd 2009 by Tunesmith
I'm happy to offer visitors to my blog free downloads of my new CD, "Fingerstyle Guitar". The physical CD is available for sale at Amazon, or you can download the entire CD below. Tunes are performed solo on a Martin OM-18GE Custom. The tunings inclu read more
Here's One I Made Earlier
Planet Mondo - Atomic Blog | November 3rd 2009 by Planet Mondo
I don't usually post home made tunes, in fact I've only tried it once before. But, given last minute glimmers of gold and green leaves can still be glimpsed before all fades to grey, and this autumn inspired acoustic tune popped into play on my Creat read more
Kate Powers - Wild Wind Mp3
Call it Folk Music | October 26th 2009 by Tunesmith
Kate Power is one-half of the duo with Steve Einhorn. They are well-known in the Pacific Northwest. The Mp3 comes from Kate's solo album, Dancing in the Kitchen. I just love this record, the vocals and instrumentation are spot-on. The song Wild Wind read more
Classical Guitar Youtube – Ana Vidovic
Acoustic Guitarist | October 19th 2009 by Tony Hogan - Guitar Player
Here is a very nice video of Ana Vidovic, the great young classical guitar player. Pierre Bensusan the DADGAD player based in France introduced to her music some months back. I thought it would be nice to post about a video played in a more discip read more
Zoomies Boot - Custom Car - Chord Progression
gatzkART | September 23rd 2009 by Kirk M Gatzka
Tried Twitrratr (sp?) for my Twitter rating and received an A+ a 98/100 rating. Needless to say I was very pleased with that. My average tweets were low though so I guess I don't have that much to say on Twitter. But my content is good!Today's image read more
Man with Tie - Circa 2007 - Digital Manip
gatzkART | September 21st 2009 by Kirk M Gatzka
Another of my images from 2007, as I try to find time to make new images, these are in review. This is a Digital Manipulation and Painting from a photograph taken by my son Keir M Gatzka.I utilized CorelTRACE on this piece to give it the posterized d read more
Davy Graham - Guitar Hero of the Folk Era
1960s Psychedelic Hippie Culture and Music | September 5th 2009 by Robert Muller
By Ricky Sharples If you enjoy playing acoustic guitar music you will most likely have heard of Davy Graham. Some people believe he is the founder of the world music genre, some guitar players believe he invented the DADGAD tuning.Davy was born in En read more
Learn To Play Guitar In DADGAD Tuning
Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free | September 1st 2009 by Ricky
Changing your guitar’s tuning from E A D G B E to D A D G A D is a big step if you are a beginner but the rewards are great. This tuning emerged in the nineteen sixties and became very popular amongst folk guitarists. One of the most popular tu read more
Capos for songwriting - Part 2
Jeff's Songwriting Blog | August 26th 2009
Over the last week, I've been exploring one capo position - partial capo, down from top, second fret. At this point, I have guitar parts for four songs and melodies for two. Now all I have to do is get motivated for lyrics.To create these parts, I read more
DADGAD Fingestyle Blues TAB and Music Notation
the acoustic guitar blog | August 16th 2009 by Tony Hogan - Guitar Player
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 read more
Learn To Play Davy Graham’s “Anji” On The Guitar
Learn How To Play A Guitar For Free | August 16th 2009 by Ricky
Davy Graham was born in England in 1940 and grew up in the era of the “angry young men”, coffee clubs and folk music. He became an innovative and original guitarist who is credited with the invention of the World Music genre and is said t read more
Wren Song's Upcoming Performance
Epic Tales - Robert Treskillard's Blog | August 8th 2009 by Robert Treskillard
My children’s Celtic band, Wren Song, will be performing this month at the St. Louis Festival of Nations. Admission is free! So anyone in the area, come down, meet us, and hear some excellent music. We’ll be at the Folk Grove stage at 10:00am read more
Wren Song's Upcoming Performance
Epic Tales - Robert Treskillard's Blog | August 8th 2009 by Robert Treskillard
My children’s Celtic band, Wren Song, will be performing this month at the St. Louis Festival of Nations. Admission is free! So anyone in the area, come down, meet us, and hear some excellent music. We’ll be at the Folk Grove stage at read more
Moose no Squirrel - Grunge Humor
gatzkART | August 5th 2009 by Kirk M Gatzka
Alaskan Moose mostly don't have Squirrels as friends, not like Bullwinkle who had Rocky. My friend Dan inspired me to do this, he commented on a photo painting I did - something about a moose - so I remembered my Alaskan Moose photographs.I decided t read more
Grunge Guitar - Chord Progressions II
gatzkART | August 2nd 2009 by Kirk M Gatzka
Recorded yesterday, a tune using the DADGAD tuning with my 12-string guitar and I mixed in some lead using Audacity's program. It was enjoyable to get some recording done even if it was only an instrumental.Included in the image is another couple of read more
Grunge Design - Chord Progressions Embeded
gatzkART | August 1st 2009 by Kirk M Gatzka
"Drop D" and "Double Drop D" tunings are also great for making creative juices flow while playing guitar and experimenting with chord groupings. In my previous post I discussed the DADGAD tuning for the same reasons - creative playing.Wikipedia has a read more
DADGAD Tuning - 12-String Guitar - Grunge
gatzkART | July 31st 2009 by Kirk M Gatzka
"DADGAD Tuning" is a very cool way to play something new on the 12-String Guitar. It sounds so full and compelling. I got out the guitar and decided to play with the tuning the other night before bed.I truly enjoyed my self. I am listening to a recor read more
Gypsy Rover DADGAD Arrangement TAB
the acoustic guitar blog | July 24th 2009 by Tony Hogan - Guitar Player
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 read more
DADGAD Fingerstyle Guitar – Amazing Grace
the acoustic guitar blog | July 16th 2009 by Tony Hogan - Guitar Player
This is a DADGAD Tuning of Amazing Grace for Fingerstyle Guitar which I wrote about two years ago but due to a web related issue, I have decided to repost the tune. I’ve written it a particular way, slow bluesy and soulful. It is a foundati read more
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