You’ve heard this before I guess?

Plus your blog has lots of cool tab examples, I think you’re doing a great job Tony!

Anyway, i am adding you to our link.

Thanks for dropping by our site also.

Michele

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Rush)

so does anybody know how she strings each of her strings on her tenor…i looked up and down goog and cant find out why…or what kind of string she uses to string each of her strings…cause i can tell those definately are not the same strings i use…

I don’t mind whether it’s fingerstyle or plectrum, they both have advantages. For bluegrass and rock I always use a plectrum, on other stuff I’ll use fingers or a combination. I never liked using finger-picks much, I found that they changed the angle of my hand a little. I did try them for a while. I found that I had to steam the picks over hot water to soften them, then reshape and also file them down. Grinding them down on the carpet is the best way to file them, you end up with a good smooth picking area.

T

Thanks for dropping by. She’s a great guitar player. I have up dated the post so it says “Hedgesish” as in Michael Hedges style, the great acoustic guitar player that died

Plectrum guitar can be much stronger, I find in the one song I’ll often use both pick and fingers, often fingers for rhythm and pick for lead. Although OI remember times when I’ve been playing I’d forgotten that I use a pick in a particular song… someones called 1 2 ..1234 the songs started and at about bar 20 I’ve gone ‘oh that’s right I do this with a pick’…and then the trick was t forget that I was supposed to use a pick.

John Martyn used to do that style beautifully, and Bert Jansch had an unusual version of it.

I think it’s good to be versatile and play multiple styles and techniques.

It could easily be a tenor, yes. But there were 4 string tiples (one p, excuse my spelling in my original post. My memory of them was from when I was doing guitar construction some years ago, it may have been in the Larson book where I read about them). I saw what I thought was a tiple in a shop in 1996, I guy said it was a tiple and I assumed that they were that size, after seeing the dfinition below, you could very well be correct. Thanks for the heads up.

Here’s a definition of a tiple.

tiple (Spanish, “little guitar”; pron. “tipple” a miniature guitar about the size of a ukelele, derived from South American traditions. It has ten steel strings arranged in four courses in ukelele tuning: A D F# B. The courses are strung double-triple-triple-double, and the inner string of each triple course is one octave down from its neighbors. It might have been featured prominently in a Disney film, “Honey, I Shrunk the 12-String”. It was made by the Martin company in the 1920s and was still in their catalog in 1980. While it rarely shows up in North American folk, it’s a favorite with South American performers. See also taropatch for another ukelele relative.

quote: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/traditional-music/ency/t2.htm

I think this is a tenor guitar as opposed to a tiple…

A tiple as made by Martin guitars has 10 strings and is tuned like a uke.

A tenor guitar is tuned in fifths, usually CGDA.

The sound is rather different!

Warmest regards,
Terence

In my original post I had the spelling of Ani diFranco as deFranco.

I appreciate you pointing out my typo. But i have managed to get McLaughlin and de Lucia corect on my other blog. http://the-guitarplayer.com
Regardless of this, I’ll continue to post what I consider to be great information about acoustic guitar and help expose some of the players that the broader community needs to hear to inspire them in developing their own music.

Tony Hogan

There’s not a straight forward answer to this because the response would be different in every situation but here’s some ideas to get you started.

First of all work out ‘when’ they are playing and what the environment is like e.g are there only a few people, is the music to be in a small intimate setting or is at a function with quite a number of people. The tune/s would depend on that.

When choosing songs what needs to be taken into account is what ‘mood’ it is to create and I would work from that point,. Once you establish the mood of the music, then you can streamline it down to what songs you like.

Another thing to be taken into account is the style of guitar that both players can play and this will impact on what tune you select.

In my opinion, the only thing better than one guitar is two.

Some great options would be some sort of ballad that is a love song, most reasonable guitarists should be able to handle arranging any tune for two guitars, even if one just played the melody and the other some nice simple accompaniment.

If they are classical players or readers you’ll have more opinions of pre-arragenged songs for guitar.

If you need some duets there’s a guy from Iceland ( yes Iceland) that has a greast site full of arrangements, that would be my first port of call.

http://www.eythorsson.com/

I’d get them to aim at a song that wasn’t overly complex but nice sounding, the less the players need to concentrate on technique, the more they can put into feeling.

Hopefully this is helpful

I wish you all the best and can’t wait for the youTube of your wedding

Tony

Maybe your mum used to sing it when you were in the womb and that’s what you remember

Tony

Am just thinking this through. Will respond within the next 48 hours

Tony

Do you have any suggestions on songs they could play at our ceremony? Both brothers are above average talent-wise and could probably handle most songs given enough time to practice.

Thanks,

Thanks…

My blogs are always busy, new stuff all the time.

Tony

If you think back about the Stones, their early music was all blues based.

I enjoyed this video, I like to hear players on acoustic, I find it easier to to hear the musical voice on acoustic because it’s not colored by technology

T

Did you ever hear the Crosby Nash album ‘Wind on the Water’? the Mama lion song was great

T

It’s nice to see other people have been able to appreciate his music for so long

Captured Angel and Netherlands was very good as well

Tony

He was sooooo young when he past away…

Thank you for making this available to experience on your blog!

that’s really sweet

Tony

Peace to you and your family from across this small globe.

Kat

Ben

always the joker

Tony

For many years, I celebrate the birthdays and anniversary’s of my departed loved ones. I believe they are listening and are sometimes very close by. This is a lovely tribute to your sweet boy.

Peace to your son, smelling his flowers.
Love,
Jim & Em and all at GO! Smell the flowers.

I checked out your post. Thought provoking

Cheers Tony

but it seems ok now

Tony

I want to ark you many thing but my English is very poor.But I will learn about your comments
to improve myself.

Jeed
Thailand

I appreciate your comments

Tony

Tony Hogan

So dig your article…

Respect
Cha

Great post and very useful for us beginners..

It’s incredible how kids adapt once they try something. Maybe there were quite a few others that did do the power off as well, it’s possible that you missed them because they had lights out

Eco

Thanks for dropping buy

Sophie

I tried to forward an email about health but it came back to me

Kurt

Do you eat every 22 minutes ?

Trisna

It might happen, all things like that come from grassroots and grow.
Yeah the girl is great

T