Though it may seem to be a daunting task at first, learning to play the acoustic guitar really isn’t as hard as some people make it out to be. Every skill has a starting point and the guitar is no exception. The best place to begin, is by learning every single part of the guitar, because once you know how it works you’ll be better able to understand it, and therefore be able to play it better. The acoustic guitar is fairly simple and doesn’t sport quite as many parts as other guitars might, so we can go over them relatively fast:

Learning guitar can be a great thing if you’re one interested in music. It allows you compose your own music and sing songs with perfect music in the background. This is the main reason that most of the lead singers of different bands are working as a guitar artists also. You can always learn guitar for yourself, but, if it is about professional guitar playing you must need to spend time for that. Its difficult to manage playing and guitar and singing simultaneously, and it needs a lot of practices to do that professionally.

Here’s an interesting article I read yesterday: (editor’s note: this was a JazzWax dot com article regarding the girl from ipanema) I like his inclusion of the Percy Faith recording, but what I like the BEST is his inclusion of Maynard Ferguson’s version in his 3 WORST recordings of the song! Here’s what I wrote [...]

Now in its 16th year, the London’s Meltdown festival was overseen by Ornette Coleman, and he also picked all the artists that played there. He picked artists such as: Charlie Haden James Blood Ulmer Acoustic Ladyland Marc Ribot Keiran Hebden & Steve Reid Yoko Ono The Bad Plus The Roots Patti Smith Yo La Tengo [...]

Here’s some info about an upcoming jazz concert festival and where you can get tickets. The West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts Festival will start tomorrow and run thru Sunday. Some of the headliners will be WAR, The Mingus Big Band, Average White Band, Tower of Power, and Roy Ayers. This festival is funky and [...]

OK, time for some more bite-sized survival! I hope you all read/enjoyed my review of Percussion Bitter Sweet. (If you don’t have it and are thinking about getting it, please do so through my iTunes links…) Just some new tidbits for you: If you look on the right sidebar underneath the RSS and email subscription [...]

OK, so today I decided to list some of Jazz’s greatest contributions to cilvilization. Here we go! 1. Mingus’ “Cat Toliet Training Program”: http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html. Saving our economy from rising kitty litter and strongly scented candles! 2. Miles Davis’ “The Autobiography” with Quincy Troupe: Who else wants to find a way to fit two curse words [...]