Acoustic Guitar "Contemporary Latin Jazz Guitar" with Neff Irizarry Neff Irizarry's new instructional book, "Contemporary Latin Jazz Guitar", breaks open the history of Afro Cuban latin jazz rhythms and how they work for guitar. Neff Irizarry is a guitarist, composer, educator, and author specializing in Latin and contemporary Jazz. He has a Master's
From The Editor 'mise en place' Mise en place is a French culinary phrase for having your materials prepped. Works for music, too.
Guitars & Gear String Sling Review The String Sling was designed with one purpose: to extend the life and vibrancy of your guitar strings. But it didn't stop there. The String Sling's development grew to encompass a number of other handy features as well. Let's take a look. The String
Acoustic Guitar Furch Adds Bevel to Yellow and Blue Acoustic Series Right before Christmas time, Furch updated their Yellow and Blue acoustic guitar series' with their Bevel Duo ergonomic feature. It's a welcome upgrade to these amazing guitars but... unfortunately it's too late for me since I bought my Furch Yellow last year! Ahhh! (You can
Lacquer The Easy Way to Paint Your Guitar There are many ways to paint a guitar body, some are simple, some are multi-staged and hard to follow. With this tutorial we will going to try to do it simple and hopefully you will be able to paint your guitar body without wanting to kill me. The easiest way
Fingerstyle StudyWithAdam.com Review: Funky Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons Online As modern acoustic fingerstyle playing has grown in popularity, so have the options for online lessons. There's video courses, tab sites, Skype lessons, and the options keep coming. One of the best I've found is StudyWithAdam.com, by Adam Rafferty. Run by 'funky fingerstyle guitarist&
Acoustic Guitar How Difficult Is Fingerstyle Guitar? In order to answer the question: "How difficult is fingerstyle guitar?", you have to define a couple things. What do you mean by "fingerstyle guitar"? And what do you mean by "difficult"? I'd like to offer a few definitions which show that
Album Announcements "My Guitar", New Album from Ingrid Riollot On her new album, "My Guitar", Ingrid Riollot records 6 compositions written by the great guitarist Australian born John Williams (not the one of Star Wars). Those pieces are wonderful, and so well written for the guitar but, unfortunately, are not very well known by the audience. Other
Acoustic Guitar Guitar Tonewoods Explained An intro to the different sound characteristics for each standard guitar tonewood, and a handy guide when you’re looking to buy a new guitar.