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Learn a Slack-Key-Tinged Fingerstyle Arrangement of “Lady Athenry,” a Traditional Irish Jig
This arrangement originally appeared in Celtic Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar. Here’s another great tune by Turlough O’Carolan, the 17th-century Irish harper who wrote some great pieces that work really beautifully on guitar.
Learn a Jazzy, Reharmonized Arrangement of “Sweet Georgia Brown”
The beloved standard “Sweet Georgia Brown” was written in 1925 by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, with lyrics by Kenneth Casey. The inspiration for the song reportedly struck when Bernie met a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, Dr. George Thaddeus Brown, in New York City. Brown mentioned that the Georgia General Assembly declared his daughter, who had been born in 1911, should be named Georgia after the state.
Sean Feucht’s Criminal Record Raises Integrity Concerns
Popular worship leader and political activist Sean Feucht lamented in his 2016 book, Integrity: Character of the Kingdom, that “We, as a generation, have lost our integrity.” Yet, a review of criminal and court records reveal that Feucht has a history of minor criminal offenses, including one in which he apparently tried to deceive law enforcement. A detailed law enforcement report, obtained by The Roys Report (TRR), shows Feucht asked a friend to withhold key information from police.
Julian Lage on How to Play His Position-Shifting Guitar-Bass Duet “Double Southpaw”
Julian Lage has a list of potential song titles—he estimates there are easily more than a thousand of them—that he has been gathering for the last 15 years. One of those names, “Double Southpaw,” recently found its music when the guitarist-composer recorded the composition as a duet with bassist Jorge Roeder for his latest album, The Layers.
Hard Chords Made Easy
What do you do when you come across a Bb or an Eb chord in a songbook? Struggle with a barre fingering? Slap on a capo? Turn the page and go on to the next song? Take up the harmonica? All of these are possibilities, of course, but the idea is to play these chords, not succumb to them. You want to be able to make not-so-common chords sound good without hurting yourself in the process. In this chapter we will dispense with barre chords, which are a handful for many guitarists.
How to Play Billy Strings’ Fleet-Fingered Solos on “Way Downtown”
Billy Strings’ November 2022 release, Me/And/Dad, has had remarkable chart-topping success, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums Chart, No. 7 on the Top Country Albums Chart, and even No. 37 on the Billboard Top 200. It’s even more notable considering this is his most traditional bluegrass record to date, a collection of 14 classic songs performed with his stepfather and musical mentor, Terry Barber.
Lessons | Acoustic Guitar
About Acoustic Guitar lessons. Learning to play the guitar takes more than just figuring out what fingers go on which frets and which strings to pluck or pick. You need to absorb these mechanics, for sure, but you also need to know how different techniques fit together and how you can put them to use in service of making music with soul and spirit.
Study an Open-D Bottleneck Slide Guitar Association of “Silent Night time”
From the November/December 2022 difficulty of Acoustic Guitar | By Steve Baughman Here’s a good little bit of guitar trivia. “Silent Night time,” probably the most beloved Christmas piece ever, was first carried out on a guitar. It was December 24, 1818, on the St. Nicholas Church within the Austrian city of Oberndorf bei Salzburg. The native priest, Joseph Mohr, and the choirmaster, Franz Gruber, had composed the music.
Learn an Open-D Bottleneck Slide Guitar Arrangement of “Silent Night”
From the November/December 2022 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Steve Baughman Here is a nice bit of guitar trivia. “Silent Night,” the most beloved Christmas piece ever, was first performed on a guitar. It was December 24, 1818, at the St. Nicholas Church in the Austrian town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg. The local priest, Joseph Mohr, and the choirmaster, Franz Gruber, had composed the song. Christmas Eve was to be its maiden performance before the parishioners and the villagers.
Tips on Arranging Celtic Harp Songs for Fingerstyle Guitar
Subscribe to Acoustic Guitar on Hey, fellow guitarist! Did you know 99.9% of visitors to this site will scroll past this message without making a contribution? Many plan to pledge later, but then forget. So we're asking you to give just $1 (or whatever you can afford) right now. From the March/April 2022 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Steve Baughman It’s not every day that a slow harp instrumental carries a biting political message.
Dans Kef: Learn to Play a Mysterious Celtic Arrangement for Solo Guitar
From the November/December 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Steve Baughman I was surfing YouTube late one night when I became smitten with a band playing “Dans Kef,” a tune either named after a town/region in Brittany or KEF, the British loudspeaker manufacturer. It remains a mystery to me. In any case, I stayed up until the wee hours working out an arrangement of the piece on the guitar. The tune is in fact a good case study in how to build your own Celtic arrangement.
Learn to Play Mary Flower’s ‘Waltz,’ a Jazzy Roots Piece in Dropped D Tuning
Not long ago, Mary Flower sat down in her home, in Portland, Oregon, with her Fraulini Angelina and tuned the old-school-inspired guitar to dropped D. Though she wasn’t intending to compose something new, she soon found herself following a melodic thread that took unexpected twists and turns. “I wasn’t quite sure where it was all headed, but I kept after it until it made sense and I had two parts,” Flower says.
Video Lesson: Learn a Fingerstyle Arrangement of “It Is Well with My Soul” in Double Dropped-D Tuning
One of the most well-known hymns in the Christian literature—“It Is Well with My Soul,” by Horatio Spafford (1828–1888)—has one of the saddest backstories. In the early 1870s, Spafford, a prominent lawyer and real estate investor, lost most of his properties in the Great Chicago Fire, and then his four-year-old son succumbed to scarlet fever. As a reprieve, in 1873 Spafford sent his family on a boat trip to Europe and all four of his daughters perished when the vessel was wrecked.
The Christian Industrial Complex Shields Its Own - The Aquila Report
Ravi Zacharias has never so much as enrolled in a graduate level academic program, much less completed a doctoral program. He has a Bachelor’s degree and a non-academic Master of Divinity degree, both from obscure religious institutions,[x] and has racked up numerous “honorary doctorate degrees” over the years from supportive Christian schools. That’s it.
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