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Journey Instruments is introducing two unique models just in time for fall travels. Both guitars were created in response to customer demand for a solution to the unique travel requirements faced by traveling musicians. Classical guitar players …
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Thomas Grapperon has just released SongKit , an AI-powered songbook app for iPhone and iPad. With SongKit, the user can edit or display songs with chords for pianos or guitar-like instruments (guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, …). The app …
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Bret Williams has released his third album, Seven Original Pieces for Solo Guitar. Classical Guitar Magazine describes Williams as, "Alluring...accomplished." And Tony Morris, of NPR's Classical Guitar Alive! program describes Williams' playing on …
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Earlier this year, Martin released it's "X Series", an economical line of acoustic guitars made for the ins and outs of daily living. With a price tag in the $500-700 range, Martin hopes this guitar will be your "daily commuter". Taking the X …
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Playing the guitar can be empowering, it can be therapeutic and most of all, it can be fun. Creating music for others is something that has gone on for generations, often speaking to people in ways words cannot. Sadly, the ability to play the …
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Percussive fingerstyle guitar has captured the imagination of acoustic guitarists around the world. From classic acoustic players like Michael Hedges to modern groundbreakers like Mike Dawes, percussive technique has opened up new possibilities for …
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Orangewood Guitars launched their first-ever series of mahogany guitars - the Highland Mahogany series. Orangewood's Highland series of guitars have been an attractive meetup of price and quality, providing quality acoustic models at a price many …
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Furch Guitars (Furch), one of the world's leading manufacturers of premium-quality acoustic guitars, recently expanded its environmental activities by the use of green energy. Starting this year, all electricity is from fully renewable sources, which …
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I really like to read. I alternate between fiction and nonfiction. One of my recent fiction books was “Infinite Detail” by Tim Maughan. It’s a dystopian, near-future, sci-fi book that looks at the question, “what would happen if the whole internet …
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Classical guitarist, Ben Gateno, releases "A Time When Things Were New", a 19-track album of early twentieth century solo guitar pieces . This album is a collection of solo guitar music specifically from 1920s in the genres of classical, …
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Guitar tablature is a great, easy way to learn new songs, and most guitar players use it. Thanks to sites like ultimate-guitar.com, guitaretab.com, and 911tabs.com, it's easy to go on your computer and find a tab to nearly any song with just a few …
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Sony Music Masterworks released Not Our First Goat Rodeo, the long-awaited follow-up album to the GRAMMY Award-winning The Goat Rodeo Sessions, with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile. NOT OUR FIRST GOAT …
If you're like me, you've been living in t-shirts for the last several months. As so many of us are stuck at home, with no desk jobs or fancy events to show up for, we're living in t-shirts, hats, and a dim sense of petrified wonder at what may …
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Let's take a quick look at what a "fingerboard radius" is, how it effects your playing, and which radius (if any) is the best fit for contemporary fingerstyle players. A quick public service announcement: Obviously, I cannot tell you the "best" …
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