Review: Marcus Bonfanti - What Good Am I To You?

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Published Dec. 17, 2009 at 5:07 p.m.
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Regular readers of Guitar Noize will know that I have a penchant for blues and I get very excited when I discover a new artist who is following in the footsteps of the greats who have preceeded him ... Here is a little background on Marcus: ... Marcus was born in North London and from an early age was played Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and an array of blues and folk by his mother and father who made him tapes of old LP’s he owned, Marcus proceeded to break these tapes through over

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Review: The Steve Morse Band - Out Standing In Their Field

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Published Nov. 25, 2009 at 5:37 p.m.
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I first heard Steve Morse back in 1990 I think it was, I had been playing guitar about a year and I heard the Celtic influenced Highland Wedding which featured some nice fingerpicking and melodic rock lines and it made me want to hear more. I had just heard Eric Johnson’s Ah Via Musicom and was blown away by this seemingly new genre of melodic shred. I went on to purchase Southern Steel and Coast To Coast both of which I still listen to, and at the time I had never even heard of Dixie

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Pete Huttlinger Interview on Modern Guitars

Published May 27, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

Modern Guitars recently interviewed fingerstyle acoustic guitarist Pete Huttlinger. Huttlinger’s an excellent guitarist and has recently released an album titled Fingerpicking Wonder: The Music of Stevie Wonder. In addition to being a great guitarist, Huttlinger has the heart of a teacher, as evidenced by the instructional DVDs he has created.In the interview, he offers this [ ... ] ...

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Steffen Schackinger - ElectricGuitartistry

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Published April 20, 2009 at 5:51 p.m.
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I’ve had this album for ages and meant to do a review a long time ago but somehow forgot about it, and I can’t imagine why Steffen is an incredible guitarist! I was reminded after seeing the video above posted on YouTube by his record label Candy Rat Records which is an excellent label full of amazing talent such as Antoine Dufour. So after drooling over Steffen’s Suhr and of course his playing I fired up iTunes to listen to ElectricGuitartistry again to see what I’d been missing out on

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Phil Keaggy Struts All The Tricks

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Published March 16, 2009 at 12:37 p.m.

If you’ve ever wanted a single nine-minute demonstration of every acoustic guitar technique imaginable, Phil Keaggy delivers.On my regular YouTube shred-trawl, I recently discovered a gem of a performance by Keaggy in which he demonstrates the perfect execution of everything from standard fingerpicking to slapping, looping, mid-song retuning, and body percussion.I’ve annotated below with a [ ... ] ...

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Play Dust in the Wind on Acoustic Guitar

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Published Feb. 9, 2009 at 7:18 p.m.

Most people don’t know what big fans they are of Travis fingerpicking until somebody mentions to them that “Dust in the Wind” was played using Travis fingerpicking.  Then they are fans for life.  “Dust in the Wind” sits beside “Landslide” as an all-time Travis fingerpicking classic.  Guitar Noise recently published a lesson on playing “Dust [ ... ] ...

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