Posts Tagged ‘Acoustic Guitar’
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
We were pretty excited earlier this year when Martin Guitar introduced the new Martin 000-15M all-solid mahogany acoustic guitar. Not only were we excited about the ability to get an all mahogany guitar again from Martin, but we were also impressed with all of the new appointments. But when we hear about a new guitar, the first thing we want to see is pictures. Martin posted a few on their site, but that wasn’t enough. We wanted more. And sometimes the answers to your dreams come from far away places.
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Tags: 000-15M, acoustic, Acoustic Guitar, mahogany, Mahogany Guitar, Maritn 000-15M, Martin
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Anton Emery from RhythmStrummer.com a website that offers guitar lessons. Anton offers us the following lesson on acoustic guitar picksups. Enjoy!
Pickup technology for acoustic guitar has come along way in the past twenty years. Previously a performer just stuck a mic in front of his guitar and hoped for the best. Now you can take a recording of your actual guitar, load that into a digital effects system, and create an amplified tone based on that acoustic recording. And that is just one of the many options.
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Tags: Acoustic Guitar, pickups
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
Reuters has a good story today on the rise of Michael Cera - who we have been big fans of since he played the kid lusting after his cousin on Arrested Development. The article questions how such a nerdy actor could be such a hit with fans - especially girls. After commenting on his “wire-thin body” and “slumping frame,” the mystery is solved:
“But Cera does like music and can play guitar, and one thing about girls
– no matter what decade they grow up in — they love guys who play
guitar.”
Why oh why did I spend so much of my free time in high school playing Intellivision rather than learning chords?
Michael Cera: When Geeks Get the Girl (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Tags: Acoustic Guitar, guitar, Michael Cera
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
As you may have gathered, Brian and I spend a decent amount of time looking at guitars. While considering many potential nominees for our first Best Backstrip Award, we came across a photo of the back of the Collings D-3 and knew we had our winner. We usually don’t like a lot of extra ornamentation (part of why I’m feeling drawn to the Martin OM-21 lately), but something about the back of the Collings D-3 just seemed spectacular. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Collings guitars are played by Lyle Lovett & Pete Townshend.
Collings D-3 (Official Site)
Tags: Acoustic Guitar, Collings, Lyle Lovett, Pete Townshend
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
We have been interested in Breedlove acoustic guitars since we were first introduced to them at our local guitar store. So you can imagine our delight when we saw that today Acoustic Guitar Magazine published a review (with video) of the Breedlove C25/CR Herringbone acoustic-electric guitar. Many Breedloves are made abroad, but this one is actually made at the company’s Oregon headquarters and AGM seemed to like it. According to the magazine, the C25/CR Herringbone “is a guitar any fingerstylist seeking bang for the buck should check out.” We think you should check out the review at Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s website. A good review of a good guitar.
Breedlove C25/CR Herringbone Review (Acoustic Guitar Central)
Breedlove C25/CR Herringbone (Musician’s Friend)
Breedlove C25/CR Herringbone (Official Site)
Subscribe to Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Tags: Acoustic Guitar, acoustic guitar magazine, Breedlove, breedlove c25/cr, guitar
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
When we’re looking for inspiration on acoustic guitar, we often go back to Johnny Cash’s American Recordings. Recently, while doing some research on Cash we learned something quite startling. It turns out the Man in Black made much of his great early music while only knowing about four chords. According to a 2001 article on Johnny Cash in Acoustic Guitar Magazine:
“It’s nice of you to call me a guitarist,” says Cash. “I know about four chords, and they’ve always worked for me: C, F, G7, and A minor. Or if you’re in G, that’s G, C, D7, and A minor.”
Cash admits he had to learn a few more for the American Recordings. Still, if Cash could have created his incredible body of work with only four chords, imagine what you could do with six or seven!
Photo Credit: Alexindigo under a Creative Commons License
The Guitars of Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash’s American Recordings (Amazon)
No Regrets (Acoustic Guitar Magazine)
Subscribe to Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Tags: Acoustic Guitar, Johnny Cash
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Vicki Genfan, an all-acoustic guitar player, won Guitar Player Magazine’s Superstar contest held last Saturday at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall. If you haven’t heard her music before (or seen her play), she is worth checking out. Vicki uses a method she calls “slap tap.” In the words of the San Francisco Chronicle:
Genfan doesn’t just play guitar. She also slaps it,
tickles it, fondles it, scratches it, tosses it around in her hands and
coaxes all kinds of unlikely, rhythmic sounds of the otherwise simple
instrument.
We’re not sure what she’s going for with the tickle, we just think the music sounds great.
Video is after the jump.
Acoustic Player Wins Guitar Superstar Contest (SF Chronicle)
Vicki Genfan (Official Site)
Vicki Genfan (MySpace)
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Tags: Acoustic Guitar, guitar, Guitar Player Magazine, Vicki Genfan
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Here at Fretbase, we’re always looking for quality advice on ways to improve our practicing. Recently, after getting our Daily fix of the Tuttle kids playing bluegrass (see video after the jump), we wandered over the site maintained by their father Jack Tuttle. Jack has a page with his Top 10 Practice Tips. The first piece of advice is simply to practice. The second is to practice wisely. If you head over to Jack’s site, you can see all 10. We’re particular fans of #9 (”Jam”).
Considering that this is the guy that taught his kids to play bluegrass so well, we’re following all 10.
Jack Tuttle’s Top 10 Practice Tips (Jack Tuttle)
Jack Tuttle’s Kids Playing Bluegrass (YouTube)
Photo Credit: Merelymel13
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Tags: Acoustic Guitar, Bluegrass, guitar, Jack Tuttle
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
In today’s Fretbase Face Off, we’ll see two classics fight it out. In the first corner, we have the Martin D-28 - the solid spruce and rosewood dreadnought standard. In the other corner, we have the Gibson Hummingbird - a performer’s favorite played by artists including Keith Richards. We are pretty big Martin fans over here but we have been quite intrigued by Gibson guitars lately - in particular the Hummingbird and the J-45. If you want to see how these guitars did in the face-off, click on the link at the bottom of the story to see the video. And let us know which one you liked best in the comments.
Read more about Martin D-28 at Musician’s Friend
Read more about Gibson Hummingbird at Musician’s Friend
See the Video!
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Tags: Acoustic Guitar, Gibson Guitar, gibson hummingbird, guitar, Martin D-28, martin guitar
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
While everybody else was focused on the new iPods announced at Apple’s Let’s Rock event today in San Francisco, we were focused on the guitar. At the event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Jack Johnson is the highest selling artist ever on iTunes. Johnson regularly plays acoustic guitars made by Cole Clark Guitars - which are made in Australia. He even played one at today’s event (photo courtesy of Gizmodo). Johnson isn’t alone. His friend Ben Harper plays a Cole Clark guitar as well (when he isn’t playing his signature edition Martin).
Jack Johnson Music on iTunes
Cole Clark Guitars
Tags: Acoustic Guitar, Ben Harper, Cole Clark Guitars, guitar, Jack Johnson
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