Learn Guitar Gypsy Jazz Picking (Rest-Stroke Picking) Today I'd like to chat about the style of picking used in gypsy jazz guitar, otherwise known as 'rest stroke' picking. This picking technique is what allows gypsy jazz guitarists to produce such a strong sound on their instrument, and once mastered, is a real asset
Knowledge Base 5 Acoustic Guitar Fixes Using Super Glue There are three or four different types of glue on your acoustic guitar right now, and one of them is super glue. While your acoustic guitar is a piece of woodworking mastery, and luthiers used refined techniques (and a host of tools!) to shape, bend, fit, and smooth those beautiful
Player Profile How To Play Guitar Like Woody Mann Woody Mann is a masterful American blues guitarist. He was born in New York and learned his early acoustic guitar chops under blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis. From there, he has become a tour de force in acoustic guitar music, incorporating jazz, folk, and international music in his oeuvre. Accomplishments
A Very Useful Gypsy Jazz Arpeggio (with TAB, picking, & fingering) Today I'd like to share with you a very useful shape. One of the most versatile arpeggios you can learn as a gypsy jazz guitarist is shown below. The great thing about this shape is that you can use it to improvise over three chord-types. For instance, in
Guitars & Gear Top 5 Delay Pedals for Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Acoustic fingerstyle guitar players use delay pedals to expand their sound and create unique sonic atmospheres. As with all guitar effects for acoustic guitar, a little goes a long way. But that little bit can be magical. Just to set the stage, the definition of "delay" in music
Guitars & Gear Taylor Guitars Launches New Round-shoulder Dreadnought: The Grand Pacific Taylor® Guitars recently introduced a brand-new body shape — The Grand Pacific. The new acoustic guitar is developed by master guitar designer Andy Powers and utilizes Taylor's new sonic engine, V-Class bracing. New Shape, New Sound The new round-shoulder dreadnought adds some variety to the Taylor lineup. Over time,
Player Profile How To Play Acoustic Guitar Like Eric Clapton Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream. Clapton has
Learn Guitar An Introduction to Traditional Irish Guitar GUEST POST - I thought I might offer a few words in this post about a guitar genre that rarely gets the spotlight outside of its own community of players, namely that of guitar accompaniment in traditional Irish music. Now when I say "traditional Irish music " - or
Apps & Tech One Click Tuner - A Minimalist Guitar Tuner App With Frequency Display The One Click Tuner comes from the unlikely source of www.seqstat.com (short for 'Sequential Statistics'), a machine learning and algorithm-oriented site run by PhD researcher Josh Day. Not exactly your typical guitar tuner background... One Click Tuner By Joshua Day Price: $3.99 iOS App Store
