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     Volume TWO 2010

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Cover Page - Current Issue of Fingerpick Magazine, the publication dedicated to furthering the creative and performing abilities of all musicians, especially those who desire to become contributing members of the music industry.

Unique perspectives on the music industry, including manufacturing, performance issues, creativity, style, and product perception

Covering the basics of guitar including, how to quickly and accurately tune your guitar, instrument selection, guitar tuners, transposition, fretboard layout, alternate tunings, chord diagrams, and general music theory

The Acoustic Guitar, A comprehensive guide to various brands, styles and designs, updated on a regular basis to ultimately form a rich database of their characteristic strengths, weaknesses, with video and audio samples of their sound and performance capabilities

The Electric Guitar, one of the most significant advances in popular music, explored in depth with video and audio recording of their characteristic sound and performance capabilities

Every tool and accessory imagineable for the guitar player including, capos, strings, picks, saddles. nuts, and an endless array of tools to cusomize your instrument

Technical tips by various top guitar techs, luthiers, recording engineers, pro performers, and players, on every aspect of how to achieve the optimum from your guitar in any situation

Video demonstrations of various guitar techniques to quickly enhance your guitar playing and performance abilities. This is the Heart and Soul of Fingerpick Magazine, where you will find the ultimate in efficient guitar learning techniques.

The place to see and hear various guitars and other instruments in action incorporating techiques and tips from elsewhere in Fingerpick Magazine

High quality mp3s of a wide range of guitars and other instruments, played and recorded to optimize their own sound capabilities as well as their relative position in larger mixes

Exploring the world of high quality audio and video home and studio production, cameras, mics, hard disk recording, DAW recording, midi production and arrangement, sound modules, keyboards, midi controllers, and lots of guitars

Learning the midi language, midi sequencers, midi controller, midi arrangement integration, midi synchronization with analog tracks

Want to get the most out of your musical performances. This is the place to see the equipment and techniques for success. Microphones, cabeling, mixers, mic stands, speakers, sound reinforcement, preamps, pickups, subwoofers and more

Audio and Video Demonstrations of various acoustic guitar pickups, electric guitar pickups, piezo, UST, soundboard transducers, magnetic sound hole pickups, Sunrise, Lace, DTAR, Seymour Duncan, B-Band, K&K, Schertler, PUTW and many others with installation tips and procedures

We will take a look here at a number of Guitar amps, their capabilities, and their maintenance. Tube amps, Solid state amps, acoustic amps, DSP equipped amps - always a work in progress

A special section on the influence music has on children and the amazing musical abilities that even young children can develop if encouraged properly.

An ever expanding list of manufacturers of your favorite musical products and how to reach and develop a relationship with them

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We welcome your feedback and will create here a comprehensive list of frequently asked questions based on communications we receive from our contact page. In this section we will also publish select letters of interest from our readers.


 

 

 

 

 

 

Guitar Video Demos

Sight & Sound


Mike Doolin   Music, is no doubt mostly for the ears, but one would be missing the whole experience if we didn't get out once and a while and actually SEE somebody play. It is in this spirit that this section is born. Our first video is the master builder himself, Mike Doolin. Simply Click on each image to watch and listen to these unfolding audio/video treats. This is one of Mike's interpretations of a Turlough O'Carolan melody from the 18th century entitled "Si Bheg and Si Mhor." There are a number of spellings including "Shebeg - Shemore" but they are all O'Carolan. So ignore the Riverwind title and enjoy the music. Thanks to Seve McWilliam from Liverpool and many others for researching the origin of the tune and subsequently sharing that information with us.

Nancy Conescu   Our next treat is from the talented Nancy Conescu. An accomplished player and singer, she tours the world imparting her critically acclaimed Irish flavor on songs from many genres. "Wild Blossoms", written by the talented and prolific Lisa Aschmann (sorry about the spelling in the photo, Lisa) and Joni Bishop, has been recorded by a number of well known artists including one of my favorites, Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek. This is a beautiful performance of an exquisitely crafted song.

   Again click on the image to see and hear the performance. For information on any of the performances, writers, or artists you will see here, drop us a note by going to the Contact Page and filling out and submitting the short form. And do yourselves a favor - get a good sound system for your computer. There's a lot of great stuff a'comin!

 

  

 


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