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The December issue of Acoustic Guitar is on newsstands now. Access these features, articles, and lessons online: (To access special reader/subscriber features, including audio files and lessons, enter hollydaze when prompted.) EYES WIDE OPEN Conor Oberst, aka Bright Eyes, has made the leap from heartland wunderkind to indie-pop idol by saying exactly what he thinks and mining his personal life for universal truths in his finely crafted songs. NEW GEAR: Tanglewood TW15-N-NS Dreadnought. Michael John Simmons reviews this bargain-priced, tastefully appointed solid-wood flattop. HERE'S HOW: Dynamic Arranging. Scott Nygaard lays out eight simple ways to use dynamics to get to the emotional heart of your band's songs. LESSONS AND MUSIC TO PLAY: (To access special reader/subscriber features, including audio files and lessons, enter hollydaze when prompted.) - THE BASICS: “Monotonic Bass Fingerpicking.” Accompany your blues licks with a thumping one-note bass in the style of Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins. By David Hamburger. With music to 'Blue and Monotonic.' - WOODSHED: “Clawhammer Guitar.” Add driving rhythms to your arrangements with clawhammer banjo techniques. By Craig Dobbins. With music to 'Old Joe Clark.' - SONGBOOK: 'Kansas City Lowdown.' An open-C blues inspired by such pianists as Jelly Roll Morton. Music by David Hamburger. LUTHIER'S WORKBENCH: Julie Bergman profiles Dell'Arte Instruments, one of the premier manufacturers of Gypsy jazz guitars.  READER'S RIG: Fingerstylist and singer-songwriter William Smith doesn't gig anywhere without his Pendulum SPS-1 preamp.  Each month we feature one of our readers’ rigs in the magazine. To be considered, send a description of your setup to editors.ag@stringletter.com Plus reviews of new CDs by Bonnie Raitt, Earl Klugh, Nickel Creek, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Tim O’Brien, Dar Williams, and others, and answers to readers questions about how to match the gain of two different pickups, how often to practice, and how determine the optimum neck angle of your guitar, in Q&A. Also in the December issue: Tommy Emmanuuel lays out some of his signature licks; “Peaceful Easy Feeling” is the Acoustic Classic; the Guild F412 Jumbo 12-string gets reviewed; Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers presents 20 tips to get great sounds in your low-budget, computer-based home studio; Shawn Hammond interviews Australian rocker John Butler; and Happy Traum memorializes John Herald. Subscribers gain access to even more online features, including audio files and lessons, via the password included in each issue of Acoustic Guitar. http://www.acousticguitar.com Return to Top |
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BULLETIN BOARD New instructional DVDs for guitarists - Homespun Video recently released two new titles: Guitar Soloing 101: An Easy Guide to the Fingerboard, taught by Marcy Marxer, with Cathy Fink on second guitar; and Bluegrass Slow Jam for the Total Beginner: A Super-Easy, No-Fail Play-Along Session with Pete “Dr. Banjo” Wernick and his all-star collaborators—mandolinist Drew Emmitt, guitarists Nick Forster and Joan Wernick, Dobro player Sally Van Meter, bassist Ben Kaufmann, and fiddler Nancy Steinberger. Find out more at http://www.homespuntapes.com/ - Danny Sarokin’s Lick*tionary: The Songwriter’s Guide to Great Guitar offers more than 200 “hot licks, cool tricks, and great grooves” to enhance your playing and songwriting. Whether you play rock, country, blues, folk, jazz, bluegrass, reggae, or bossa nova, Sarokin has the chord progressions, moving bass lines, harmonics, open tunings, chord-melody solos, and more for you to practice. Check out the table of contents at http://www.licktionary.com/ - “Bohemian Rhapsody” or “We Are the Champions” anyone? Edgar Cruz puts those Freddy Mercury classics and more at your fingertips with Arranging for Solo Guitar; The Queen Titles, new from Video Progressions. You can hear samples at http://www.videoprogressions.com/ Return to Top |
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WHAT'S HAPPENING 
To “better define the contribution of women to the history of modern guitar”—and rebut the presumption behind the frequently asked question 'why are there no great female guitar players?'—Patty Larkin has produced La Guitara: Gender Bender Strings, a 14-track CD with performances by a wide variety of women pickers past and present. Represented are Wu Man, Sharon Isbin, Memphis Minnie, Mimi Fox, Kaki King, Ellen McIlwaine, Badi Assad, Alex Houghton, Vicki Genfan, Muriel Anderson, Rory Block, Jennifer Batten, Elizabeth Cotten, and Larkin herself. Coinciding with the CD’s release on Vanguard Records (http://www.vanguardrecords.com/laguitara/home.html), Larkin, King, Anderson, and Fox are on tour throughout November. Larkin plans to keep the tour going through 2006 (with King and Isbin) and 2007 (with Assad and McIlwaine). Get more details in the La Guitara pages on Larkin’s website, and watch for Dan Ouellette’s roundtable discussion with some of the participants in the March 2006 issue of Acoustic Guitar. Return to Top |
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UPCOMING IN ACOUSTIC GUITAR January 2006: A feature blues lesson with John Hammond; advice about shopping for the classical guitar that will fit your playing level and your budget; an interview with John Prine, with music to his acoustic classic 'Angel from Montgomery'; reviews of new guitars from Durango and Ovation; and more. February: Jackson Browne talks about his guitars, his tunings, his songs, and going it alone on his new CD Solo Acoustic Vol. 1, with music to “These Days”; Teja Gerken profiles Collings Guitars and remembers Eric Roche; learn how to play the blues like Mississippi John Hurt and how to get started writing your own songs; reviews of new guitars from Yamaha and Ramirez; music to “Teach Your Children” and “Losing My Religion”; and more. Return to Top |
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