FULL COURSE: su.pr For more acoustic guitar lessons, join TrueFire for free – su.pr TF on Twitter – su.pr TF on Facebook – su.pr Take your first 5 minutes of playing (or singing or ‘whatever;) and play things you’ve NEVER played before. Break free of your ruts and musical habits! Refer to your tool kit for the ’12 Steps to Exploring Open Tunings.’ Use your ‘Tuning Guide’ for the C2 tuning. When tapping a ‘chord’ (6:30) be sure to ‘tap’ the open strings first, then hammer on the actual chord notes with left hand. You may find that you can employ some of the open strings as you play melody lines or scales – and get some really cool riffs that would be impossible to do in a standard tuning. Follow your bliss! Let yourself follow the sounds, rhythms or body movements that you like – again NO RULES here!

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iTunes: itunes.apple.com – Amazon: www.amazon.com – Our second heavy acoustic song – heavy metal on acoustic guitar with percussion and tapping

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iTunes: itunes.apple.com – Amazon: www.amazon.com – Original acoustic guitar song “Heavy Acoustic – Part I” – awesome heavy metal and hard rock played on acoustic guitar!

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ellisguitars.com jamesmichaelthompson.com Blending the sounds of Delta slide greats such as Blind Willie Johnson and Robert Johnson with his own eclectic past experience and training in classical guitar and heavy metal, Tompo is a 27 year old Australian blues musician with a big voice and a quietly endearing stage presence, using his guitars, blues harp, stomp-box and shakers to convey his heartfelt songs of ‘good news blues.’ James Michael Thompson sound has been honed and refined by the influences of Jeff Lang, John Lee Hooker, Lloyd Spiegel, Paul Simon and Skip James. Beginning to gig in earnest in late 2004, James Michael Thompson credits include debuting at the acclaimed Bridgetown Blues Festival in 2005; supports for ‘The Bondi Cigars and Lloyd Spiegel at the Perth Blues Club, hosting the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) blues night at the Cornish Arms and demonstrating the one-of-a-kind Ellis Guitars Seven String Resonator at the Frankston Guitar Festival in 2005. James Michael Thompson has also performed alongside the likes of Collard, Greens and Gravy; The Black Sorrows and Guy Davis at the Mordialloc Music by the Bay; Queensland songsmiths Loren & Marcus Bancroft; as well as performing on the same bill as Michael Franti and Jamie Cullum at the West Coast Blues and Roots Festival. James Michael Thompson recorded his first EP ‘Light Your Way’ in 2005, which has found its way into homes across Australia and has received airplay on local, national and …

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www.itunes.com Third in a series explaining some of the basics of percussive playing. Dale Campbell takes you through the last part of his song “New Song 2006″ Subscribe to get the new episodes as soon as the come out. www.myspace.com

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