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Think I want to concentrate more on acoustic

bigben55
January 17th, 2012, 12:56 PM
I have played guitar for 24 years. I am primarily an electric blues player, but I do a little rock, country, and rootsy stuff. I would consider my abilities intermediate to decent.

In all that time, I have never taken acoustic guitar past the point of campfire strumming, if you know what I mean. I can play and sing hundreds of songs acoustically, but I'm either just strumming or playing what I would play on an electric, on the acoustic. I have a great acoustic(1993 Alvarez Yairi DY-50N Wind River Deluxe), and a beater. I have been thinking about setting the electrics down for a bit and really concentrating on the acoustic, BUT DON'T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN! Advice? I want "acoustic" chops.

allen st. john
January 17th, 2012, 01:02 PM
I guess I'd pick a genre of music--bluegrass, acoustic country blues, thumbpicking, Celtic--that sounds best on an acoustic, and use that as an entry point.
There are lots of great resources on YouTube and elsewhere to get you started.

Chiogtr4x
January 17th, 2012, 01:57 PM
These are old references, but you can't go wrong listening to early Dylan( he really was a picker on his first 4 albums, especially "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"), John Prine, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Jerry Garcia (either with the GD, or David Grisman etc.) and of course The Beatles!

aunchaki
January 17th, 2012, 08:01 PM
I'm trying to stretch my own skills at the moment. I've been reading about the ill-fated 1840s polar expedition of Lord Franklin. Here's a great version of a contemporary folk song, Lord Franklin, I found recently. It's a fingerstyle piece in drop-D. I'm working on it myself right now.

http://soundcloud.com/terranova/lord-franklin-2012

JohnnyRebKy
January 18th, 2012, 05:51 AM
Some good ole bluegrass flatpicking always does a acoustic good :) the number of old fiddle tunes to learn is endless. Doc watsons Black Mountian Rag is my favorite. Carter style tunes like Wildwood flower are good to start with. If your past that level, red haired boy and cripple creek are a couple good ones to get started with where its all pick and no strum. And heck they all go great with that campfire u like to play around lol. In my opinion, this kinda music is what the acoustic was born for :)