This is a just a short post to provide a link to some new compositions for solo guitar I completed this week – after starting in September 2012. While I don't expect anyone but myself to take the time to…
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I started my site (humaneguitarist.org) around 1996 after I thought it would be a good idea to share what I learned with regard to classical guitar posture. After some major surgery in 1995, I tried to resume my studies with…
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I'm currently reading E.T.A. Hoffman's The life and opinions of the Tomcat Murr : together with a fragmentary biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on random sheets of waste paper. There's a fantastic passage, not by Murr the Cat, but those…
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I've launched a new web application written for a friend of mine and any other luthiers and guitarists that might be interested. The application was designed to help guitar makers and luthiers calculate fret distances online using the Rule of…
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Way back in 1996, I wrote a little rasgueado method book entitled Rasgueados Are for Everyone: the guitarist's rasgueado method. That was an interesting time in my musical and personal life. I had just come off two surgeries and was…
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Several years ago, while living in Charleston and before I really knew anything about subscription databases in academia, I hand-compiled a list of poetry that references the word "guitar" in it. I called it "1/Guitar" or the "In-Verse Guitar Project"….
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Thomas Heck's "Expanding the GFA's Online Resources" from a recent issue (Vol. 36, no. 3) of the Guitar Foundation of America's Soundboard listed some cool online resources that I know of and use and some that were new to me….
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