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Location: Minneapolis, MN | I've recently discovered fingerstyle guitar playing and would like to pick the brains of those in the know... any recommendations out there of who I should be paying attention to? I know it's a broad topic, but I don't know where I should begin. A friend of mine referred me to the stylings of Phil Keaggy-he's great, but I was kind of hoping for something a little more player friendly, as I'm still somewhat of a novice. Thanks for any input! :)
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Rich
I don't know what kind of music you are into, but if you want to work on some acoustic finger picking that has impressed everyone I know of, get some Doc Watson CD's, you could start with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", steal some licks, and put them in whatever type music you like. I, and my California compadres, spent a month stealing the lick in Tennessee Stud after we saw him live in San Diego, the other great one, Merle Travis is also on that CD, as is Mother Maybelle.
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Location: NJ | My aunt took me to see Segovia at the Philadelphia academy of music when I was 16....I don;t think I touched my guitar for a month... |
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Location: SoCal | Jerry Reed. Buster B. Jones. Read Fingerstyle Guitar which comes out 6 times per year and has tunes broken out in tab and includes a cd of all the tunes (Borders Books carries it).
Don't be intitimidated by what you hear. Like everything else, you learn it one note at a time. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Adrian Legg is a good one. I always liked Alex DiGrassi |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | John Fahey. You can get some nice tab book and CD sets of his work. Highly recommended. |
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Location: NJ | Bill Frissell
Laurence Juber
Ralph Towner
Willie Porter is a REALLY good
up n' coming guitarist
..and the man that inspired him,
the late GREAT Michael Hedges! |
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Location: NJ | John Renbourn |
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Location: NJ | John Renbourn |
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Location: Scotland | To get a handle on the basics of fingerstyle guitar forget the instrumentalists for a while & listen to songwriters who play fingerstyle. Paul Simon, James Taylor, Peter Case, Richard Thompson, Guy Clark, there's tons of others. What they play isn't flashy or overly technical, but it's incredibly MUSICAL, you can take it where you want from there. For seriously flash fingerstyle try Martin Simpson, who's also a fantastic singer & slide-player.
Paul
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Location: Parkersburg, WV | See if you can track down some of Marcel Dadi's work. He used Ovations quite a bit but his material is hard to find. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes, Marcel was great. |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Thanks for all the input gentlemen! This is plenty to keep me busy for awhile... if I have incur any marvelous revelations along the way, I'll be sure to share :D In the meantime, I've written all of your suggestions down (ok, copied and pasted)... Thanks again and by all means, if there are any other suggestions, feel free to add to the list!
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Location: NJ | Just to reiterate something that Paul T. mentioned earlier: James Taylor!!
For the past week or so I've had his new CD ("October Road") in rotation here at the office. Good Stuff!
He was on Letterman the other night and he played the one song from the new CD that has a lot of horns w/the Letterman band. The guy is so friggin' mellow that the music just seems to slide off of him! Really cool.
I read an article a few years ago in a prominent guitar mag comparing Taylor's acoustic fingerstyle work to that of Hendrix's electric work. Not so much side-by-side comparison, nor by technical proficiency or technique, but just by how fluid and seemingly effortlessly they both play(ed). A distinctive style that could be picked out blindfolded. |
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Location: Houston, TX | I don't know about "player-friendly", but I always enjoy Leo Kottke, Kelly Joe Phelps, and Stephen Stills on "Stills Alone". Three guys that go about their business in three very different ways. |
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Location: Morrilton, Arkansas | hay rich. give these guys a try.Norman Blake, Duane Allman, David Lindley, and Les Paul.. |
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