A Lesson In Flatpicking
When you play a guitar using plectrum bystanders point and say that you are indulging in a bit of “flatpicking”. I guess they have to call it something. Anyway it’s a technique that most of us assume we can just “do”. You just pick up the pick and pick with it. But like most [...]
Guitar Lesson Video
Once upon a time, long, long ago men and women learnt to play guitar from books or, if were lucky, a guitar teacher. Books could supply us with the information we needed like what the note symbols meant and what a major key is, and a teacher could guide us, explaining things we did [...]
Pete Townshend – destroyer of guitars
Throughout his solo career and his career with The Who, Pete Townshend has played (and destroyed) a large variety of guitars.
In the early days with The Who, Townshend played 6-string and 12-string Rickenbacker semi-hollow electric guitars primarily (particularly the Rose-Morris UK-imported models with special f-holes). However, as instrument-smashing became increasingly integrated into The Who’s [...]
