Guitar Talk (people who play guitar blog)

Santa Cruz, CA The model I played is the Tony Rice Edition. I love your rhyme. I have been played by a few too many guitars in my lifetime!

Do you have any MP3's to to post? All I have so far is wave files. I have done a couple of rough cut CD's, nothing slick.

One of the songs I play is called Columbia, You're My Home, and has a very difficult section involving "pinching" on the treble and bass strings as in a normal Travis pattern followed by an offbeat treble note followed by another pinch, alternating the bass in very rapid and syncopated 4/4 time. Here's the tab for two measures in G:
6-----3T------------------3T---------------
X-------------------------------------------
4----------------0T-------------------0T--
3-------------------------------------------
2------------0I--3I---0I--------0I---3I--0I
1-----3M-----------------3M---------------
After the next repitition, rush a treble note on the on the first string, third fret a half beat followed by the normal thumb beat on the sixth string and on. That syncopates it. Anyway that's about the most difficult riff I know in acoustic blues. I always have trouble with it. Well Yesterday I played a Santa Cruz rosewood dreadnaught ($3000) and I nailed it! Again and again! Damn, what a sweet ride that was! It seemed to me that the Cruz has a slightly thinner neck than the hated Martins!

Lars, How did you get together with such an elite group of players?! Hornheads over for dinner, no less! I need to get out more! I haven't hung with real music people in a long time. Sometimes I meet some pretty cool people hanging out at Guitar Center but mostly they are locals or bluegrass players down from the mountains (now there's an interesting bunch).

Eric Clapton plays a Martin.