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how to improve your classical guitar level

November 20th, 2008

10 advice for how to improve your classical guitar level:

1:try some new idea again and again
2:deal with your time reasonably
3:listen more
4:with the best as your partners
5:when you get the skill you want,ask youself,what i’m going to do?
6:teach some students how to play guitar
7:trust your ability
8:you are unique
9:learn to take the pick of the basket
10:conquer your weakness

Bruce Driscoll

November 20th, 2008

Bruce Driscoll is a Brazilian/American record producer, songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist. He first gained notoriety as one half of the indie pop band Astaire.Featured first as the Free Single of the Week and then having their own iTunes Exclusive Acoustic EP.

Driscoll formed the Saturday Club with bassist Aric Gillis in late 2005. Their sound is a more guitar-driven, ambient, rock sound. They have re-mixed songs for Unfiltered Records band the Postmarks as well as Hugh Cornwell of the Stranglers. The Saturday Club is currently producing their debut album with Starflyer 59’s Jason Martin.

Bruce Driscoll

As a songwriter and producer he records material under the alias, the King of Nowhere. He is a frequent collaborator with Andy Chase. Playing guitar in Chase’s band Brookville and keyboards in Ivy. Driscoll is also a member and lead vocalist for the alternative rock group, the Saturday Club.

Bruce Driscoll

Bruce Driscoll was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He started playing piano at an early age then picked up the guitar when he was fifteen, inspired by the sound of Johnny Marr and George Harrison. Taking quickly to the instrument, he began accompanying his two sisters, Monica and Erica, in a band called Nectar. In order to free himself to tour with the group he withdrew from traditional high school and completed an independent study program through the University of Missouri.

Jerry Douglas

November 20th, 2008

Jerry Douglas (born as Gerald Calvin Douglas on May 28, 1956 in Warren, Ohio) is an American Dobro player. He is often referred to as "Flux" by his peers, a nickname given to him by Ricky Skaggs, and as a result of his ability to play at amazing speeds with the slide.

Jerry Douglas

In addition to his eleven solo releases and countless special projects, Douglas’s stellar playing has graced over 1600 albums encompassing a wide range of musical styles. As a sideman, he has recorded with artists as diverse as Ray Charles, Peter Rowan, Béla Fleck, Emmylou Harris, Phish, Dolly Parton, Paul Simon, Ricky Skaggs, Bill Frisell, John Fogerty, Nanci Griffith, Tony Rice, Elvis Costello, and James Taylor, as well as performing on the landmark O Brother. As a producer, he has overseen albums by the Del McCoury Band, Maura O’Connell, Jesse Winchester and the Nashville Bluegrass Band.

In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Douglas a National Heritage Fellowship.

Jerry Douglas

He has recently collaborated with Scottish fiddler Aly Bain serving as musical director and playing on the all-star roots-music summit Transatlantic Sessions III series for BBC Scotland.

Douglas‘ main instrument is a Beard Resonator Guitar. Douglas has received twelve Grammy Awards. He has also won the Country Music Association’s ‘Musician of the Year’ award three times, in 2002, 2005 and 2007. Douglas was named Artist in Residence for the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.

Donovan

November 19th, 2008

Donovan (Donovan Phillips Leitch, born 10 May 1946, in Glasgow), is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music.

Donovan grew up in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland. He contracted polio as a child when he was vaccinated, and the disease and subsequent treatment left him with a limp.

Donovan

Donovan was one of the most popular British recording artists of his day, producing a series of hit albums and singles between 1965 and 1970. He became a friend of leading pop musicians including Joan Baez, Brian Jones, Bruce Springsteen, and The Beatles, and was one of the few artists to collaborate on songs with the Beatles. He influenced both John Lennon and Paul McCartney when he taught them his finger-picking guitar style in 1968.Donovan’s commercial fortunes waned after he parted ways with Mickie Most in 1969, and he left the music industry for a time.

In 1956, his family moved to Little Berkhamsted near Hertford, England. Influenced by his family’s love for Scottish and English folk music, he began playing guitar at 14. He enrolled in art school but dropped out soon afterwards, determined to live out his beatnik aspirations by going out on the road. In 1963 he took a trip to St Ives with Gypsy Dave and other friends from Hertfordshire.

Donovan

Returning to Hatfield, he spent several months playing in local clubs, absorbing the music of the British folk scene around his home in St Albans, learning the cross-picking guitar technique from local players like Mac MacLeod and Mick Softley, and writing his first songs.

In 1964 he travelled to Manchester with Gypsy Dave, then spent the summer in Torquay, Devon. It was here that he stayed with his old friend and guitar mentor from St Albans, Mac MacLeod, and it was during this period that he began busking and more serious study of the guitar and learning traditional folk and blues songs.

Dan Donegan

November 19th, 2008

Dan Donegan (born August 1, 1968 in Oak Lawn, Illinois) is an American musician and guitarist for heavy metal band Disturbed. Donegan began playing guitar as a teenager and eventually formed a band called Vandal, which was an ’80s-style hair band.

Early on with his career with Disturbed, Donegan played Gibson Les Paul Standards and SGs. Then, he switched to play a few Paul Reed Smith models, the Tremonti Model and a PRS Singlecut. Donegan is a fan of GHS Boomer guitar strings and uses the 10-46 gauge set. He also uses Seymour Duncan pickups in his guitars.In 2005, Washburn Guitars built Donegan his own signature model called the Maya, named after his daughter.

Dan Donegan

Donegan also uses the Digitech Dan Donegan, The Weapon, that Digitech made for him. He also uses the Digitech Whammy Pedal and has been seen using the Digitech Metal Master distortion pedal. According to an interview in 2000, Donegan also uses the BOSS PH-2 Super Phaser, a Dunlop Crybaby Wah, and an Ernie Ball Volume pedal. He also uses a BBE Sonic Maximizer.

Donegan has primarily used Randall and Mesa/Boogie Amplifiers, using Randalls for indoor events, and using MESA amps for outdoor gigs. He used to play on Marshall amps during the very early days of Disturbed.

Dan Donegan

Peter Dolving

November 19th, 2008

Peter Dolving (born 1969 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a guitarist, songwriter, and spoken-word performer.

He joined the band Mary Beats Jane and organized raves to support himself. He then opened the highly successful rock club called "Underground" in the basement of restaurant Kompaniet, Gothenburg. Mary Beats Jane released their first album in 1994 and toured through 1997.

Peter Dolving

Dolving then re-joined his former Swedish heavy metal band The Haunted, supporting himself by drawing fetish art and working as a carpenter. Recently Dolving incited the wrath of some Metal fans with his unique soul-searching and frequent ranting in the Blog section of his official MySpace page.He eventually formed The Peter Dolving Band to perform his songs and wrote spoken-word material for the short film No Justice No Peace by Jonas Olsen. He also answers his critics on the popular metal news site, blabbermouth.net. A candid interview with him appears in the documentary Working Class Rock Star.

Peter Dolving

Pete Doherty

November 19th, 2008

Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, artist, published writer and poet. He is currently a singer and songwriter in the band Babyshambles, but first came to fame with The Libertines, alongside Carl Barât. In 2005, Doherty became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with supermodel Kate Moss and his well-publicised drug use.

Peter Doherty was born in Hexham, Northumberland, England, the son of Jacqueline, who was of paternal Jewish descent, and Peter John Doherty, who was of Irish descent.He had a Catholic upbringing and grew up at a number of army garrisons, due to his father’s work as an officer in the British Army, living at various times at garrisons in Catterick, Belfast, Germany, Bedworth, Dorset and Larnaca, along with his mother, a nurse, and two sisters, Amy Jo and Emily. At the age of 16, he won a poetry competition and embarked on a tour of Russia organised by the British Council.

Pete Doherty

Doherty has an older sister and a younger sister, respectively. His mother Jacqueline Doherty is a nurse, who recently published a book about family life with Doherty and his drug problems, called Pete Doherty: My Prodigal Son.Doherty’s father, Peter Doherty Sr., is an Army officer.

After numerous attempts to convince him to start a serious rehab, in early 2005 Doherty’s father decided that he was tired of broken promises and vowed never to see his son until he was clean of drugs. The sensitivity surrounding the issue became apparent in the BBC Two Arena documentary about Doherty, on 12 November 2006, which included footage of him talking about this aspect of his personal life.  In October 2007, Doherty said in an interview with BBC Radio 4 show, Front Row, that he had reconciled with his father after 3 years of no contact when his father came to visit him in rehab.He was visibly upset and had to politely ask the interviewer at one point to stop filming.

Al Di Meola

November 19th, 2008

Al Di Meola (born Al Laurence Dimeola July 22, 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an Italian American jazz fusion and Latin jazz guitarist.

In 1971, he enrolled in the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1974 he joined Chick Corea’s band, Return to Forever, and played with the band until a major lineup shift in 1976.

Al Di Meola

In the beginning of his career, as evidenced on his first solo album Land of the Midnight Sun, Di Meola was noted for his technical mastery and extremely fast, complex guitar solos and compositions. But even on his early albums, he had begun to explore Mediterranean cultures and acoustic genres like flamenco. Good examples are "Mediterranean Sundance" and "Lady of Rome, Sister of Brazil" from the Elegant Gypsy album. His early albums were very influential among rock and jazz guitarists alike. In 1980, he also toured with fellow Latin rocker, Carlos Santana.

Di Meola went on to explore a variety of styles, but is most noted for his Latin-influenced jazz fusion works. He is a four time winner as Best Jazz Guitarist in Guitar Player Magazine’s Reader Poll.He exhibited a more subtle touch on acoustic numbers like "Fantasia Suite for Two Guitars" from the Casino album, and on the best-selling live album with McLaughlin and de Lucia, Friday Night in San Francisco.

Al Di Meola

Guitar historian Robert Lynch states: "In the history of the electric guitar, no one figure has done more to advance the instrument in a purely technical manner than Mr. Di Meola. His total command of the various styles and scales is simply mind-boggling. I feel privileged to have been able to study his work all these years."

Ani DiFranco

November 19th, 2008

Ani DiFranco (born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970) is a Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is known as a prolific artist and is widely celebrated as a feminist icon.

DiFranco’s guitar playing is often characterized by a signature staccato style,rapid fingerpicking and many alternate tunings. She delivers many of her lines in a speaking style notable for its rhythmic variation. Her lyrics, which often include alliteration, metaphor, word play and a more or less gentle irony, have also received praise for their sophistication.

Ani DiFranco

Although DiFranco’s music has been classified as both folk rock and alternative rock, she has reached across genres since her earliest albums. She has used a variety of instruments and styles: brass instrumentation was prevalent in 1998’s Little Plastic Castle, a simple walking bass in her 1997 cover of Hal David and Burt Bacharach’s Wishin’ and Hopin’, strings on the 1997 live album Living in Clip and 2004’s Knuckle Down, and electronics and synthesisers in 1999’s To the Teeth and in 2006’s Reprieve.DiFranco has collaborated with a wide range of artists including pop musician Prince, folk musician and social activist Utah Phillips, funk and soul jazz musician Maceo Parker and rapper Corey Parker.

Ani DiFranco

DiFranco herself noted that "folk music is not an acoustic guitar—that’s not where the heart of it is. I use the word ‘folk’ in reference to punk music and rap music.It’s subcorporate music that gives voice to different communities and their struggle against authority."It’s an attitude, it’s an awareness of one’s heritage, and it’s a community.

Bo Diddley

November 19th, 2008

Bo Diddley (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), was an original and influential American rock & roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs. He was also known for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar. Bo Diddley received an honorary degree from the University of Florida in August 2008 that was accepted by his daughter, Evelyn Kelly, on his behalf.

Bo Diddley

Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates,he was adopted and raised by his mother’s cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel.  In Chicago he was an active member of his local Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming proficient enough on the latter for the musical director to invite him to join the orchestra, with which he performed until the age of 18. In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the boy dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.He was more impressed, however, by the pulsating, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church. Also, he became interested in the guitar.

Further inspired musically after seeing John Lee Hooker, he supplemented his work as a carpenter and mechanic with a developing career playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green,in a band called The Hipsters. During the summer of 1943–44, he played for tips at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker.In 1951, he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club on Chicago’s South Side, with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters.

Bo Diddley

McDaniel would adopt the stage name "Bo Diddley". The origin of the name is somewhat unclear, as several differing stories and claims exist. Bo Diddley himself has said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley’s first single.

In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James and bass player Roosevelt Jackson, and recorded demos of "I’m A Man" and "Bo Diddley". They re-recorded the songs at Chess Studios with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann, Lester Davenport, Frank Kirkland and Jerome Green.