Tips, Techniques, Examples about my favorite musical instrument, the Twelve-String Guitar.

If you play guitar check out Playing Technique, or Strings / Setup. There are also some interesting posts about guitars at, you guessed it, Guitars.

If you want to spread your musical talents around, you will find some good info at Recording.

Marketing - meh - I'm probably the world's best bad example. Although you could find funny stuff there.

I've made some music videos through the years, and you can find them and other interesting music at Music I Like, Music I Play.

Friday, August 19, 2011

The Celtic Gig Book for Mandolin

Allan Alexander has a new edition of The Celtic Gig Book for Mandolin. I've been listening to the tunes and they really are amazing. The pieces were composed before Western music became strict about tonic - dominant tonality that dominates right up to today, and these pieces have a refreshing freedom in the use of scales and chord progressions.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Unified Theory of all (musical) things

Four stinkin' views on my last music video...really chagrined. I mentioned this to my friend Gary Robinson who politely pointed out that he couldn't find it and wasn't sure where to look (and here I was thinking that people didn't understand my geniusissity).

Groan, what with web sites, blogger, twitter, facebook, google+ and so on the music was getting posted here or there or sometimes nowhere.

I'm trying blogger to pull it all together. If it works, I'll even pop for a reasonable url.

So if you have suggestions, I'd really like to hear them. I put links or embeddings for a lot of stuff that was scattered around like music notation, how to buy my music, some recent videos with links to the rest of the music videos.


Image - Thirst, c. 1980 Art Sulger