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Acoustic Guitar is hosting another Facebook Live event with Ron Jackson and special guests Thursday, Oct. 29. Join us at 7PM (PT)/10PM (ET) for a live performance and Q&A hosted by NY 7-string guitarist Ron Jackson, with special guests Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers and Frank Vignola. Tune in to watch the event live and participate in…
By Ron Jackson When I started playing acoustic guitar at age 11, my fret-hand fingers jumped off the fingerboard like grasshoppers, as speed and clarity evaded me. Then, when I was in high school, I saw the acoustic-guitar trio of Paco de Lucía, Al Di Meola, and John McLaughlin, and my mind was blown by…
By Ron Jackson Funk guitar might be most commonly associated with the scratchy electric rhythms of a player like Jimmy Nolen, in support of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul. But the acoustic guitar lends itself just as well to these cool percussive sounds, as evidenced by the guitar on the 1972 Bill Withers hit…
From the January/February 2021 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Ron Jackson If you’ve spent much time listening to jazz guitar virtuosos like George Benson and Tal Farlow, shredders like Yngwie Malmsteen and Tony MacAlpine, or fusion players like Frank Gambale, then you’ve no doubt heard plenty of sweep picking. This efficient technique involves using a plectrum to play a…
It was your typical summertime Friday night—the sun taking its time to retreat into the horizon, dreams of a fun weekend beginning to form in the mind, and the computer fired up and ready to provide a fun, safe, socially distant evening of music and guitar talk with two superb players and artists. Seven-string guitarist…