February 2012 Blog Posts (28)

Greetings fellow enthusiasts!  You're invited to check out my new blog Acoustic Pickers: the pursuit of vintage and other lonely guitars.  I hope you'll like it and choose to follow my journey in all things fine acoustic guitars.  Peace, Eric

Acoustic Addicts recently launched a pilot episode on Youtube that explores the art and science behind high-end acoustic guitars. If you are an acoustic addict like us we believe you will enjoy the show. You can check it out at http://bit.ly/yAIAyF.

This is not a selling show. The goal is to provide valuable and pertinent information about all things acoustic. We use spectral analysis software so you not only hear the difference between tone woods…

I've started a series of posts called Guitar at Work (or School) where I'll be sharing things you can do while sitting at a desk, during your lunch break, or even while watching TV, to help improve different aspects of guitar playing. Week 1 is on posture.

Good posture is a basic element of guitar playing and is very important regarding the long term effect it will have on your back, shoulders, etc. If you're a beginner guitarist, you may find…

That's it! I've finally started a public page - in English - on Facebook dealing with acoustic guitar and music : The Acoustic Corner.

Therefore, you're abviously all invited to join in and like my page! I'll post links, videos, and any kind of information about acoustic music: instruments (not only guitar), styles, gigs, musicians, press etc. Of…

Don't know how everybody goes about writing arrangements but I like to go back to basics. I'm working at the moment on an arrangement of the song autumn leaves

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This is just a tip for players ready to explore more than the beginning chord shapes and who are wanting to gain more facility in soloing...

As I began to re-learn guitar, I knew I needed to jump start my playing by getting more familiar with the guitar's fretboard.  Oh, I knew a lot of chord positions, and knew how to construct chords, but what I lacked was a broader knowledge of how to connect these chords up and down the fretboard.  I really enjoyed old time music, as played by…

Hello folks,

I am looking for a used Seagull Artist Mosaic Folk Deluxe QII preferably in Southern Ontario region. If you have one or know of one for sale, please contact me with information and details. Much appreciated, Tom

A long time ago, I met Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer). Jimi had died the year before and Mitch had turned his hand to managing a group called Flying Fortress who we   now found ourselves supporting at our local village. It was an odd site, the audience were mainly kids from our school, dressed in homemade tie-dyed T shirts and loon pants, while at the same time, there was Mitch, bedecked in a light pink suede leather jacket, snake skin boots and bullet cartridge belt, with…

I just joined the Acoustic Guitar Community today and I'm very excited to see how many active members there are! Please check out my new arrangement of one of my favorite Neil Young songs, "heart of gold"

We're really excited to share this one—Gareth Pearson lays down his solo fingerstyle arrangement of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." Check out the transcription in our March 2012 issue, and good luck!

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I bought a 10 watt cheap Amp. What are the best settings to get the best sound!

I'm very proud to announce that the video of Yesterday's…

Have some of you seen the P. T. Anderson movie Magnolia (1999)? The topic of this melodrama deals with chance/fate, interections between people even if they are not directly related to each other. On some of the posters of this film, you read…

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Who has seen "Dead Weather"? It's a really new tune in drop D tuning, or as I call it, "Drop Dead" tuning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_35TeUhCVpo

Who has seen "Dead Weather"? It's a really new tune in drop D tuning, or as I call it, "Drop Dead" tuning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_35TeUhCVpo