Who Are The Great Flatpickers? Clarence White

Clarence White Who Are The Great Flatpickers? Who the great flatpickers are is totally a matter of personal opinion, and speculation. Music isn't a contest, but I damn sure enjoy seeing the flatpicking guitar contest at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. But music is not a contest, music is a celebration, an art form, a lamentation, a personal expression, and a communication that is beyond language and words. Music is more than those things that I just mentioned, and modern mass media promoted music is far, far less than any of the things that I listed. If someone is interested in Flatpicking, then there is no better resource available in the entire world than Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. ...

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The Ovation Legend Guitar

The Ovation Legend Acoustic Guitar The Ovation Legend Guitar Now, there will probably be people who never really accept Ovation guitars for what they are - simply because they defy all traditions for acoustic guitars by being. . .partially plastic. I'm here to tell you that Ovation guitars, especially from the Ovation Legend series on up, are extremely fine instruments. Sure, it's true - the Ovation Legend isn't really something that was meant to compete with acoustic guitars made by companies like C.F. Martin & Co., The Santa Cruz Guitar Company, or Collings Guitars - but it's a fine instrument in it's own right, and has it's own niche carved out for it in this world. Listen, my beautiful...

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Picks For Acoustic Guitars, A Vital Part of a Great Sound

The Hawksbill Sea Tortoise, and Faux Tortoise Shell Picks Picks for Acoustic Guitars, The Right One MATTERS The acoustic guitar is traditionally an un amplified instrument, and even if one features a pre - amp and pickup for amplification, the importance of using the right sort of plectrum or pick can not be overstated. I write a lot here about high end, high quality acoustic guitars; but spending a thousand dollars or more for a great acoustic guitar, and then playing it with a .10 cent Fender thin pick or plectrum completely defeats the purpose of having purchased such a great instrument. If you're going to play an acoustic steel string guitar with a Fender thin pick or...

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What Is Flatpicking?

What Is Flatpicking? Just like you, I live in the internet age; and so I do a lot of my socializing online. I imagine that most people are pretty choosy about who they talk to online - and I am too, but in a very different way. I always wind up talking most often to people that I've never seen - and truly those people are my best friends other than the few that I've known in my personal life, and for a very long time. I've got a friend over in Italy that is a very good jazz guitarist. If you understand how Facebook conversations go, then you can see how I could be talking to a German guitarist about flatpicking, and then our mutual friend, the Italian jazz guitarist comes into the conversation, or "thread" as they like to call...

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