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30TOMMY
EMMANUEL The Australian virtuoso has
audiences spellbound with his
incredible mastery of the guitar,
but as he tells Andy Hughes,
there’s a lot of hard graft involved.
23 Sean RETUNE
Taylor YOUR EARS
Since we last
43 Ray
Burley 40 Hot Club 27 Pura Fe
On his new
project Four
Parts Guitar.
of Cowtown A wide range of cultural
influences blend to make Pura
Whit Smith makes sure the Fé’s music truly enthralling …
swing is the thing in this hot David Mead tunes in.
jazz trio.
THE WORKSHOP
78 JC Guitars
Situated in beautiful Bordeaux, JC Guitars are causing quite a stir
with their many innovations. Russell Welton reports in.
deadline to arrive at the next note or other musicians to stop and wait for of them can be found in the lower
Biography
Fingerings
50 Martin OMCPA1
Welcome back to my column. you to catch up. positions of the fingerboard. Chris is not only a
Techniques
and Positions
Following on from the previous chord, but when sight-reading you Obviously, if you are a player of less guitar teacher but also a
may encounter a note or chord that Unlike the piano keyboard, where
article, I’m continuing with the hugely
important topic of sight-reading – you are unable to find in time and the there is a clearly recognisable pattern than intermediate standard it will be
a waste of time and effort learning
composer and producer
having worked on
Skill Level
rhythm will be interrupted while you of white and black notes, the frets on many orchestrations for
Suitable for all
and how best to improve it. the guitar fingerboard all look very the notes in the higher reaches of players
search for it. As a starting point, it’s the fingerboard at this stage. Judge
television and recordings
similar, therefore we need to start
Note Finding crucial that fingerboard knowledge is
by establishing some fingerboard the required range from the notes alike. He has many years of Chris helps you find the most efficient
CHRIS
Classy, understated, and by acoustic guitar standards
secure and confident. experience in performance
A guitar teacher will often stress that,
During the process of sight- landmarks. Many guitars have encountered in the more advanced
and helping others way to play any given piece, with fretting
when sight-reading, maintaining the pieces in your repertoire. It’s essential
rhythm of a piece of music is much reading it can be very tempting to position dots on the upper edge of
the fingerboard; if your guitar does
GIBBONS
that notes are identified by their letter
develop their playing
potential to
hand positions.
more important than playing all the go back and correct an error that has Composer
names rather than just fret positions
occurred, but by doing this the error not have these you may find it helpful Skill level: Suitable for all their best.
correct notes – this is sound advice. to add a tiny dot of correction fluid or – the reason for this will become
and S2-V
G major scale
02/02/2011 11:15
60 LAG Tramontane TD100DCE
A French-designed dreadnought with enough oo la
100 Duck Baker 106 David Price la to charm the socks off even the humblest plucker.
Let Duck help you get a Carrying on with hammer ons, David Mead goes cheek to chic …
handle on one of his favourite David helps you get a country
songs. feel to you playing.
64 Gretsch G6040MCSS
104 Lin Flanagan 108 Doyle Dykes Synchromatic
Was jazz really banned in Writing a song with a theme. With more bling than a bucketful of hip hop stars,
occupied France? Lin explodes and a magnetic pickup to boot, whatever can the
another myth. Synchromatic want from us? Sam Wise finds out.
110 Ray Gamble
Strauss’ classic Die Fledermaus
102 David Mead for ukulele. 68 Schertler DYNG Set
David takes you further into Mountable on the exterior of an instrument, and
the mysteries of DADGAD easily removed and setup on another guitar, could
this be the pickup to solve your gigging needs?
in London.