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Right hand string assignments and "positions": helpful hints & suggestions from instrument masters - Teach-in: guitar
When I was learning to play, back in the '60s, almost all of the fingerpickers I was aware of plucked the strings with thumb and just two fingers (usually ......(Continue Reading) From jailhouse to suburban rock: music once had the ability to appal and shock. Now the most radical symbol worn by fans on the streets is the iPod. As
Fifty years ago, a 19-year-old truck driver walked into a Memphis recording studio and changed the world. There are, inevitably, furious arguments over ......(Continue Reading)Barring and barre chords - Teach-in: guitar
Barring is the art of exerting pressure across the entire fingerboard with the underside of one of the fretting hand fingers, generally the first finger....(Continue Reading)Town Guitar - L.A. rock music scene
TEN YEARS AFTER BOWING TO SEATTLE, L.A. IS LOUDLY RECLAIMING ITS TITLE AS ROCK CAPITAL OF THE UNIVERSE. BLISTERING NEW BANDS ARE MAKING A SCENE, LITERALLY, ......(Continue Reading)Notes from the underground: what the ailing record industry can learn from a successful subway musician
Every two weeks or so, I pack up my Taylor acoustic guitar, fill my backpack with CDs of my music, and head down into the New York City subways to busk ......(Continue Reading)
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