Richard Gere's guitar collection: Wow!

Richard Gere who we know as an actor and activist for a free Tibet is also a guitar player and a collector. Boy does he have some nice guitars in his collection. Love his early Martin's and Gibsons. He even has a D'Angelico which was the luthiers own personal favorite.

Basic Flamenco Right Hand Techniques "Rasgueos"

Like a lot of guitar players I learned about Paco de Lucia through the famous trio he had with John Mclaughlin and Al di Meola. Which guitar player doesn't have "saturdaynight in San Francisco" somewhere.  I have several albums by Paco and would sing along {phonetically and with the doors closed) ' solo quiero caminar'. 

Flamenco studies are very good for every player, especially for the right hand.

I've transcribed the techniques demonstrated here in this video. Again it shows the enormous importance of Paco to modern flamenco playing.

Mike Stern - All Over The Place Video clip 2012!! Free MP3

All Over the Place features guest appearances by Randy Brecker, Richard Bona Kenny Garrett, Esperanza Spalding, Victor Wooten and many others.


All Over the Place is Stern's new recording on Heads Up International, a division of Concord Music Group. Set for release on June 19, 2012, the 11-song set aligns the characteristically diverse and adventurous guitarist with a cadre of brilliant guests, including trumpeter Randy Brecker; saxophonist Kenny Garrett; and drummers Dave Weckl, Keith Carlock and Lionel Cordew. Also on hand is a delegation of high-caliber electric and acoustic bass players: Esperanza Spalding, Richard Bona, Victor Wooten, Anthony Jackson, Dave Holland, Tom Kennedy, Will Lee and Victor Bailey.

"I've been playing a lot of different kinds of great music with a lot of different musicians on some of my more recent records," says Stern, whose Big Neighborhood -- released on Heads Up in 2009 -- followed a similarly eclectic vibe. "I love bebop, swing, rock, all the stuff that a lot of guitar players -- especially jazz players -- tend to include in their music. It's the nature of the instrument, but very much a part of my nature as well. There's a lot of music that really inspires me, and it usually covers quite a few territories."

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Eddie Van Halen's Dad shreds on his ukelele

Roy Smeck rocking out useing finger tapping technique. Not really Eddie's dad of course but a source of inspiration?

Tommy Emmanuel - Halfway Home with TABS!!

And there it was in the mail, another transcription by my friend Arno.

Enjoy.

Robben Ford NEW very recent live clip

Very nice clip with Robben's trio playing Moonchild Blues. You can find the chord somewhere else on this blog. He still seems not quite comfortable with the pedalboard. Listen to the comment at the very end. Why the chorus all off a sudden? Because it's on there? Doesn't come natural. To me at least. Then there's the drummer .... hear Robben's comment on 1:48.

Robben's playing is very good here. Harmonically rich and very dynamic. Perfect mix of the blues and jazz.

Incredible tabs chart !

Want to learn how to read standard notation? This chart will help! The letters along the top from left to right are the note names of the strings from the thickest to the thinnest string. The numbers indicate the fret location, from 0 (not fretted) all the way up to the 24th fret. The letters down the right indicate the note name at that fret number and string.