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editor's note
Nov 01, 2008; ... Would you rather join the back-to-school crowd (from the comfort of your own home) and expand your guitar skills during fall's rapidly lengthening evenings, or get sucked into yet another season of Survivor? We assume the former, so in this issue, we take a look at some of the current crop of ...
mailbag
Nov 01, 2008; ... august I really enjoyed the "Electrified!" article. Chris Lindquist of Breedlove Guitars made an important statement: "But the one thing we heard consistently from players was that an electric guitar should sound great before you plug it in." I noticed you did not mention Martin's 1979 ...
corrections
Nov 01, 2008; ... On page 28 of the September issue (The Basics: "Chord Chemistry 101"), ...
Bo Diddley
Nov 01, 2008; ... Words and music by Ellas McDaniel On June 2, 2008, the guitar community lost one of its true living legends in rock pioneer Bo Diddley. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, Diddley is credited for the "Bo Diddley beat," a two-bar rhythm pattern whose variations would ...
Between the Bars
Nov 01, 2008; ... Words and music by Elliott Smith Elliott Smith's brilliant songs finally reached the ears of the masses via their inclusion on the Good Will Hunting soundtrack. "Between the Bars," a standout track featured in the movie and on Smith's 1997 album Either/Or, showcases Smith's fluttery ...
Geoff Muldaur
Nov 01, 2008; ... A lesson in the art of arranging music for the acoustic guitar from one of the instrument's great interpreters. For those who remember the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, the sound of Geoff Muldaur's voice should be very familiar. That sound carried through Muldaur's career with the Jug Band to ...
Breedlove Pro C25/CR Herringbone
Nov 01, 2008; ... Distinctive, upmarket style and copious tone come together in a concert-size fingerstyle guitar that's more affordable than it looks. The Breedlove Guitar Company has carved out a unique position in the modern acoustic market with a line of guitars that are readily identifiable both by ...
Godin 5th Avenue Archtop
Nov 01, 2008; ... Canadian innovator revives the affordable archtop and delivers a gem that sounds great in any style. Archtop guitars have an aura of elegance and tradition that leaves a lot of guitarists longing for their own. But for flattop-oriented players who can't afford a guitar to suit every ...
Five Unusual Capos
Nov 01, 2008; ... To increase the guitar's tonal potential, partial and harmonic capos do more than just pressing six strings at once. Everyone knows what a capo does, right? Well, yes and no. While most capos press down all six of a guitar's strings at a given fret, some models are designed for less ...
Artie Traum (1943-2008)
Nov 01, 2008; ... From Greenwich Village to Mud Acres and beyond, Artie Traum influenced and inspired a generation of guitarists and acoustic musicians. Artie Traum passed away on July 20, 2008, of liver cancer at the age of 65, having made millions of moments of great music and almost as many good ...
Get a Great Amplified Tone
Nov 01, 2008; ... Learning to maximize your gear's capabilities can help you capture your guitar's natural voice. Even the most experienced acoustic players wrestle with the issue of amplified tone. After all, the best-sounding acoustic guitars derive their sweet voices from a complex recipe of ...
Set Up Your Practice Space
Nov 01, 2008; ... A reliable, practice-friendly environment can help you find more time for playing. As we all know, it can be difficult to carve time out of a busy schedule to sit down and play guitar. What many people don't realize, however, is that an unfit practice environment (or no practice ...
Tune Up, Log On, Rock Out
Nov 01, 2008; ... Exploring the Online Frontier of Guitar Education Taking a lesson without leaving the house is now a real possibility for Web-enabled guitarists-we've done some preliminary surfing for you. I picked up my first guitar during my freshman year of high school, which occurred around ...
AMOS LEE
Nov 01, 2008; ... tHe FOLK-POP SInger-songwriter revels in HIS wildly Diverse inFluences on Last Days at tHe LODge. If Amos Lee had realized his dream of playing pro basketball, maybe he'd be drawing comparisons to Larry Bird and Steve Nash instead of John Prine and Al Green. But an unexpected detour into ...
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Nov 01, 2008; ... THE TORRES CLASSICAL * GIBSON L-5 AND J-200 * MARTIN D-28 AND OM * RAMÍREZ 1A * TAYLOR 12-STRING WHETHER REVOLUTIONARY OR REFINEMENTS OF THE FORM, THESE GUITARS CHANGED THE WAY WE PLAYED-AND IN SOME CASES, MUSIC HISTORY ITSELF. Strange as it may seem, the guitar as we know it and ...
Left-Handed Setups
Nov 01, 2008; ... How to convert a standard guitar for left-handed playing. Guitarists who play left-handed (picking with their left hand, and fretting with the right) know one thing for sure: instruments made specifically for them are in seriously limited supply. It should come as no surprise that lots ...
Bashkin Guitars
Nov 01, 2008; ... Colorado luthier Michael Bashkin uses advanced flattop designs and specializes in sustainable tonewoods. A guitarmaker for 14 years, Michael Bashkin is in the enviable position of building only custom instruments. Starting out working by himself, then becoming a certified Martin and ...
KID ROCKER
Nov 01, 2008; ... How former rock 'n' roll front man Dan Zanes found his calling, and a new career, playing family music. After the collapse of garage rockers the Del Fuegos in 1989, Dan Zanes formed a short-lived rock 'n' roll trio before deciding he was finished making music for grown-ups. His daughter ...
STAYING ON TRACK
Nov 01, 2008; ... What it takes to be a producer of grass-roots recordings. So you've been busy gigging with your guitar, both under your own name and as a side person. You're also documenting your music on a computer in your basement and have helped a few friends and acquaintances with their own ...
Punch
Nov 01, 2008; ... Punch The Punch Brothers are a new band composed of some of the hottest young musicians in bluegrassChris Thile (mandolin and lead vocals), Chris Eldridge (guitar), Greg Garrison (bass), Noam Pikelny (banjo), and Gabe Witcher (fiddle)-but there is little here that traditional bluegrass ...