Archive | January, 2010

Fingerstyle at FARwest 2009–Six Approaches

By on January 31, 2010 in Acoustic Guitar, Fingerpicking, Fingerstyle Guitar, Fingerstyle Guitar Videos, Folk Music, Guitar Technique

Fingerstyle guitarist Mokai took video of several Fingerstyle Guitarists for the annual Folk Alliance Region West (FAR-West), presenting them together in a half-hour video “Fingerstyle at FARwest 2009″. The video includes songs by six different performers playing their original material, including Walter Strauss, Shaun Cromwell, Ernest Troost and Garrin Benfield.

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Duck Baker–Thumbs of Fury

By on January 17, 2010 in Acoustic Guitar, Celtic Fingerstyle, Duck Baker, Fingerpicking, Fingerstyle Blues, Fingerstyle Guitar, Folk Blues, Folk Music, Guitar Technique, Modern Fingerstyle Players, Piedmont Blues, Ragtime Guitar

Since I often talk about right hand technique on this Blog, you might think ‘Thumbs of Fury’ refers to the right hand thumb.* Yes, the fingerpicker’s Jedi force surely resides in the right hand thumb, but in the case of long-time fingerstyle master Duck Baker, there’s a lot going on with the left hand thumb. [...]

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Duck Baker-Modern Fingerstyle for the Ages

By on January 8, 2010 in Acoustic Guitar, Dave Van Ronk, Duck Baker, Fingerstyle Blues, Fingerstyle Guitar, Folk Blues, Modern Fingerstyle Players, Ragtime Guitar

I’m pretty much obsessed with guitar technique, especially fingerstyle, so I was excited to get a chance to hear the legendary Duck Baker perform and catch one of his teaching workshops. Duck Baker jumped on the instrumental guitar circuit in the early 1970s, at a time when the glow was still warm on the 1960s [...]

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