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    Hi yet again, fellow fan of the twang.

    Kirk’s weekly Guitar lesson

    I have finished off ‘The Long and Winding Road’, you’ll be pleased to learn. I had so many requests for the bridge section that I had no choice but to come up with an arrangement. It’s a quick, structurally simple little passage, but I’ve decorated it with some nice bits and pieces to keep your ears and fingers interested.

    Here is the lesson: The Long and Winding Bridge

    Guitar for Beginners and Beyond Community

    We’re up past the 21,000 mark at GfB&B now … one year old this month, and growing at about 80 members per day still. My partner, Clancy, is always coming up with new ideas and forum features … she’s a bit of a whizz at scripting … so make sure you drop in often to find out what’s new. I’ll mention again that if you’re into home recording and you have any mp3s or videos you would like feedback on, GfB&B is the place to do just that. We’re a friendly bunch! Visit us here.

    PlaneTalk – The Truly Totally Different Guitar Instruction Book

    I found a very long thread at another forum today all about my book PlaneTalk. There were many sceptics, players who rightfully doubt any claims about ‘miracle methods’, and there were many who had already bought the book/DVD. The PlaneTalkers were unanimous in saying that it’s a very simple but extremely powerful lesson that it teaches, and thankfully (for me), none of them spilt the beans on what exactly the ‘trick’ is, the mindset that turns your fretboard into friendly, familiar, well worn territory … the whole fretboard … no matter what the music is doing.

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    Slide Guitar in Standard and Dropped-D Tunings

    I did a bit of a revamp on my other other site, bottleneckguitar.com where I promote my recently finished DVD on the art of playing slide in standard tuning, or better yet, dropped D. Open tunings are great but there’s really no need to change anything … standard tuning (or dropped D) is a very rich environment for slide once you know where to look.

    Have a listen to some of the tracks at the =http://www.bottleneckguitar.com/site’s home page … they’re all in dropped D … and if you’d like to learn all about it, order the DVD!

    If you already know how to play slide and you’re looking for a new one, I also sell beautiful heavy slides machined from solid brass at that site. I just received my latest batch of 100.

    Online Jam

    Today was a day I’ve been awaiting for a long time: today I sat here in my Tamborine Mountain, Australia, office and played live, in real time, jamming with my old Internet friend (and fantastic twanger) Jim Heidinger who was sitting in his office near Sacramento, California. We both wore headphones and were going through a program called userplane.Not only that, but a whole bunch of other people were listening in also.We’re doing it again next week and I’ll find out more so I can announce the time and place here in the future. It’s the beginning of a new era, I feel.

    OK, I’ll leave it at that for this week, until next,


    Kirk
    http://www.kirklorange.com

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