We live on the lakeshore. My back yard is a roughly 3,000-acre natural freshwater lake. Sounds great, right? It is mostly, then there is the California drought which essentially added 100 yards of stuff to mow and a really long walk uphill from the shore. We actually love it. Living a watershed lifestyle is awesome, […]
Today I saw one of the most romantic things I have ever seen. Read More »
I get this question a lot so I thought this time I would make a post about it so I can explain why I do what I do when I amplify or record my twelve-string guitar. When I record, I prefer to use a Blumlein Pair. The mics that do that best are kind of
How to record a 12-string guitar. Check out this DanG Rig. Read More »
I want to talk about right hand finger-picking technique for a minute. I watch a lot of videos online and I see a common problem that is holding a bunch of you back. Please let me fix that with a thing I learned from my early years of Flamenco guitar lessons. It gets rid of
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We were on our way home from a really fun wine tour when we decided to take a detour. We’ve been on the lookout for a good location to play some music and shoot video. We decided to go to the Wildrose Charcoal Kilns in Death Valley. It was kind of on the way home,
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Well we are off on our adventure (cue the wildwildwest theme), and having a trip. We did a silly thing followed by many silly things. We bought an ’05 x-type Jaguar, put some stuff in it and pointed it north. Altitoodles as we say around here. We visited with friends and family, we played some
The other day, in a Facebook thread in a huge guitar group, a guitar player asked, “Why do you play the 12-string?” He said he just didn’t “get it.” Granted, he was young, a mostly electric guy with a few cheap acoustic guitars. So this guy, we’ll call him Dick, probably never played a well-made
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