Free Music - Michael Gulezian - Mood Rub a Dub

I stumbled upon Michael Gulezian's website by accident one day looking for guitar sheet music. His guitar playing is extraordinary and reminds me a lot of the late Michael Hedges. No coincidence, they were friends.

Michael sounds like a neat guy and I'd love to have him come to Sonoma County for a house concert in MY HOUSE.

He offer's free music on his website and encourages people to share it. So I will, with you!

Here's a link to the MP3 you can put on your iPod, MP3 player, or computer.

Mood Rub a Dub.mp3

If you like it, go to Michael Gulezian's website store and buy a CD to two and support a true artist without the pre-packaged glitz.

Musical Love,

-S

Beginning Fingerstyle Lessons

A friend of mine wanted to start learning to play fingerstyle guitar and since I've gone down this path recently, I thought I'd share what I've done. I created a set of lessons that start off with a simple arpeggio pattern a la "Julie Andrews", a waltz pattern, then a set of exercises that begin to work the thumb and fingers and prepare you to separate the thumb and fingers. This is not hard, but tedious because in essence you undo a life of neural connections that make the thumb and fingers work in unison. The goal of the lessons is to get them to do their own thing.

Here's a link to the lesson as a pdf. Scott's Beginning Fingerstyle