Geoo,Hey, that's great and exciting news. Best of luck, I'm sure you'll do a great job!--doug

For amplifying an acoustic violin, Baggs pickups (piezo) are real nice. I played with a fiddle player for several years (I play as well) and he switch...

This hymn isn't in any of my hymnals...often attributed to quakers/shakers, it's actually a baptist hymn. the two links below were the only ones i fou...

I'll answer the easy questions first: no, I'm not double jointed, and I've got the standard five fingers per hand, though six would nice for the guita...

There was a great article on Bromberg in the Washington Post in April:According to the article:"bluegrass on Tuesdays, blues on Thursdays"

Just found that book on amazon, reprinted in 1982. Still regularly available! Yep, that's it. I went and found mine - the price on my old copy was $1...

There's a great book of drills that's probably out of print... "Guitar Technic" by Roger Filiberto. Matty's drill is in there, along with the related...

Looks like a winner already....That's it. It's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg. Drats...that's the tune ...

Maybe Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas?...it was in Fantasia, but not sure about Looney Tunes. Carl Stalling did quote a lot of classical themes.

I have GN set as the first bookmark on my Google personalized home page...

To my ears, it sounds like standard tuning with a capo at the second fret (F#m fingered like Em)...you can hear the familiar Em shape arpeggio on the ...

There are lots of ways to record an acoustic (I had pages of links at one time), but I find I do it one of a couple ways depending on context. If the ...

You should be able to get by with a cheap mic (I use the MXL 990 LD condenser, and a SM57 on occasion), some sort of audio interface, mulitrack softwa...

Space is the Place - Sun Ra and the Arkestra

As I rarely play cover tunes (and if I do, I almost always make my own arrangements), I generally buy books for study. Usually things I don't have tim...