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The Acoustic Guitar Wire
From Acoustic Guitar Magazine
www.acousticguitar.com
October 2004 Issue 32
This issue is sponsored by Acoustic Pro Musician
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1. Welcome to the Acoustic Guitar Wire
2. Acoustic Pro Musician
3. Enter to win a Martin Guitar
4. Play Guitar!
5. New at AcousticGuitar.com
6. New at Stringletter.com
7. Talk it Up!
8. News and Notes
9. Tips on Licks
10. On the Web: Kudos from Forbes
11. Highlights from Upcoming Issues of Acoustic Guitar
12. Try a FREE Issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine
13. Back Issues of Acoustic Guitar
14. Win a Free CD!
15. Halloween Music Riddles
16. AG Wire Archives
17. Contact and Unsubscribe Info
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WELCOME TO THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR WIRE NO. 32
Before we turn into pumpkins, the editors of Acoustic Guitar
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PLAY GUITAR!
In conjunction with the publication of the fourth edition of
Play Guitar!, our magazine for beginning and developing
guitarists, we've launched the updated and expanded Play
Guitar! website, offering even more resources to enhance
your learning and playing. Check it out at
http://www.playguitarmagazine.com/
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NEW AT WWW.ACOUSTICGUITAR.COM
New Private Lessons: Jim Wood offers a basic introduction to
fingerstyle playing for flatpickers, and Sean McGowan takes
you beyond the right-hand tapping you identify with Michael
Hedges and Preston Reed to the right-hand fretting
techniques employed by Tal Farlow and others. Both have
recorded audio examples that you can listen to online.
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Looking for a luthier? The Acoustic Guitar Magazine Guitar
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guitar makers. Take the plunge at
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The November issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine is on
newsstands now. Read these excerpts online:
-- Teja Gerken reviews nine jumbo flattop guitars from
Avalon, Breedlove, Gibson, Goodall, Martin, Maton, Tacoma,
Taylor, and Yamaha.
-- Reviews of new CDs by Dayna Kurtz, Mike Marshall, Gurf
Morlix, Paul Bourdeau and Shane Simpson, Hayden, John
Petrucci and Jordan Rudess; Manuel Rodriguez' book on
classical guitar making; instructional DVDs by Mike Dowling
and Laurence Juber.
-- The November issue also includes a roundup of the coolest
new gear and accessories; a peek into neighborhood (and
neighborly) guitar shops around the country; Scott Nygaard's
tips on balancing your practice routine; Carol McComb's
clues to multitracking guitar parts; profiles of the
Subdudes, Mountain Goats, and James Talley; and music to
play, including a Scottish reel and Eddie Lang and Lonnie
Johnson's 'Blue Guitars.'
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TALK IT UP!
You can always find lively, opinionated, and informative
discussion about guitars, players, and acoustic music at
Guitar Talk, home of the online discussion forums at
www.acousticguitar.com. Chat about Gear, Players, Playing
Guitar, and more, and check up on events and post your own
in the Gigs, Workshops, and Gatherings forum.
Http://www.acousticguitar.com/ubbcgi/ultimate.cgi
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NEWS AND NOTES
Italian guitarist Aniello Desiderio opens the Omni
Foundation for the Performing Arts' 24th concert season on
October 23 at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor
in San Francisco. Concerts continue through May with
performances by Roland Dyens; Leo Kottke; Badi Assad, Martin
Taylor, Gerardo Nunez, and Brian Gore; Carlos Barbosa-Lima;
John Williams; David Russell; and Manuel Barrueco. In
addition, Thibault Cauvin, Marcin Dylla, Anabel Montesinos,
and Flavio Sala will perform in the San Francisco Masters
Guitar Competition, November 19-20. Details at
http://www.omniconcerts.com.
More than 150 years after he penned them, Stephen Foster's
songs, including 'Oh! Susanna,' 'Beautiful Dreamer,' and
'Old Folks at Home (Swanee River),' stand as icons of
American popular music. Now 18 new renditions of Foster's
classics are gathered on one CD, Beautiful Dreamer: The
Songs of Stephen Foster, the debut release of the new
nonprofit American Roots Publishing label. Alison Krauss
joins Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O’Connor on 'Slumber,
My Darling'; the Duhks perform 'Camptown Races'; John Prine
covers 'My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight'; and Mavis Staples
injects gospel soul into 'Hard Times Come Again No More.'
Other contributors include Alvin Youngblood Hart, Judith
Edelman, Ollabelle, Roger McGuinn, Henry Kaiser, and
Michelle Shocked and Pete Anderson.
Http://www.americanrootspublishing.org
Travelers on Mississippi state Highway 7 may notice
something new on the west side of the road in the small town
of Avalon: a state historic marker paying tribute to
bluesman Mississippi John Hurt. At the installation
ceremony, held on July 7, shortly after the second annual
Mississippi John Hurt Fourth of July Blues and Gospel
Festival, Art Browning, curator of the Mississippi John Hurt
Museum; Scottish zoologist Phil Ratcliffe; and Greenwood
musician and author Steve Cheseborough performed songs by
Hurt.
For more news and events, check out the Happenings in the
Current Issue online
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TIPS ON LICKS
AG reader Gillian Gutenberg of Inkster, Michigan, says 'I've
been taking lessons and playing for years, but I'm still at
a loss when it comes to playing leads while jamming with
friends. Am I supposed to memorize all the licks I see in
the books? And how am I supposed to maintain the beat when
I'm playing leads?'
Our music editor, Andrew DuBrock, offers this advice:
Memorizing all the licks in a book isn't a bad idea, but
it's kind of like memorizing all of the words in a
dictionary--if you don't try them out in context, you're
only partway there. It's more manageable to learn just a few
licks at once. Pick a few that you really like and get them
under your fingers. Then, try playing them over chord
progressions; experiment with how they work rhythmically by
starting them on different beats. (If you're having trouble
keeping time while playing licks, it can help to tap your
foot or practice with a metronome.) Soon, the licks will
begin to feel like they’re yours. Then try them out at your
jams and eventually move on to more licks. Keep things
simple. Trying to learn too many things at once can be
overwhelming.For more on developing your lead licks, check
out David Hamburger’s 'Lead On!' lesson in the new issue of
our annual magazine for beginners, Play Guitar!
Magazine.
Http://www.playguitarmagazine.com
Get more tips, advice, and answers to questions about
guitars, gear, and history by visiting the Q&A section at
http://www.acousticguitar.com
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ON THE WEB
AG's website, Acoustic Guitar Central, made Forbes
magazine’s Summer 2004 Best of the Web list. Forbes had this
to say about the site: 'Unlike most other guitar magazine
sites, which use the Web mostly to tease their print
content, Acoustic Guitar provides the deepest archive of
lessons, gear reviews, and interviews with influential
players.' The only criticism of the site, 'cumbersome
navigation,' was made before AG's new streamlined, easy-to-
use site, www.acousticguitar.com, debuted in August. Check
it out at
http://www.forbes.com/bow
(click on 'The Good Life' and then 'Guitars.')
Get more every month when you subscribe to Acoustic Guitar.
Get a FREE preview issue today!
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM UPCOMING ISSUES OF ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAGAZINE
Our December issue, on newsstands November 2, will include
Teja Gerken's interview with fingerstyle phenom Kaki King;
Derk Richardson's exploration of Nick Drake's legacy in the
music of Devendra Banhart, Kings of Convenience, and Iron
and Wine; Michael Simmons' survey of guitar instruction
DVDs; profiles of Rosa Passos and Ernesto Martinez; lessons
in blues lead phrasing and playing octaves in DADGAD; music
to 'Christmas Time's a Comin''; and much more.
-- The January classical special will include an interview
with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet; profiles of the Goran
Ivanovic-Fareed Haque duo and luthier Kenny Hill; music to
Fernando Sor's 'Variations on a Theme by Mozart'; and the
story behind a Fleta classical guitar. Plus in-depth
features on bluesman Guy Davis and '60s icon Donovan.
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WIN A FREE CD!
Humor us--and win! We're giving away a free CD of acoustic
guitar music to the contributor of the best music joke or
gig story each month. To enter, simply send your favorite
music joke or anecdote about a gig from hell to
jokes@stringletter.com
Be sure to include a mailing address in case you win. We'll
award a new prize with each edition. Here are some Halloween
riddles suitable for trick-or-treaters of all ages (Acoustic
Guitar does not vouch for the level of humor in any of these
jokes).
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HALLOWEEN MUSIC RIDDLES
What is a skeleton's favorite musical instrument?
A trombone.
Why did visitors to a graveyard in Vienna hear the Fifth
Symphony being played backwards?
Beethoven was decomposing.
Do ghost guitarists improvise?
No, they prefer sheet music.
What goes twang, twang, thud!?
A zombie guitarist playing his heart out.
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