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Chris Martin Addresses the Future of the Guitar
Chris Martin IV, Chairman and CEO, C.F. Martin & Co. A family-run, nearly-185-year-old guitar company has a unique vantage point on the market, and the perspective is even sharper when you’re the company’s sixth-generation leader, whose time steering the ship...
Mary Luehrsen on the 2017 NAMM Fly-in
This past May, NAMM continued its annual advocacy effort in Washington D.C., bringing a contingent of nearly 100 music industry delegates, representing 35 states, to Capitol Hill to advocate for music and arts education in the public schools. An integral figure in...
GAMA Supports Lead Guitar
Lead Guitar establishes and maintains sustainable, year-long classical guitar programs in public schools with low or no access to the arts. Using music and an instrument with “cool” factor, Lead Guitar establishes daily in-school instruction with the aim of keeping...
Bob Taylor on CITES
The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from September 24 to October 4, 2016. At the conference, the CITES...
Vandercook’s Day of Guitar
The 10th annual Day of Guitar, High-School Guitar Ensemble Festival was held at VanderCook College of Music November 15, 2016. Directed by Julie Goldberg, VCM Assistant Professor of Guitar and Teaching Guitar Workshop Instructor, Day of Guitar celebrates the...
Mike Molenda — Editor In Chief: Guitar Player; Editorial Director, Bass Player, Electronic Musician, Keyboard
by Dan Daley Mike Molenda has been the guitar’s editorial anchor almost as long as the instrument has been the category anchor of MI sales. In his youth he spent more time than might have been healthy at Bay Area music venues like the Fillmore, Winterland,...
GAMA Grantee – Guitars 4 Vets
For just $200, Guitars for Vets can provide one Veteran with 10 weeks of individualized guitar instruction, a new acoustic guitar and a complete guitar accessory kit. A recent grant of $6,000 from GAMA will enable Guitars for Vets to launch six new chapters over...
Essential Posters for Your Guitar Class
Classrooms should not be dreary places. They should be delightful, engaging, inspired and everywhere you look you should have a chance to learn and grow. That's why we put together some ideas for essential posters for your classroom guitar program. Notes on the...
7 Halloween Songs for Guitar Class
You've been drilling your classroom guitar students for two months; teaching them open chords and the notes on the strings. Well, it's almost Halloween - time for a crash course in tritones! Halloween brings out the augmented 4th or diminished 5th in music like no...
Capo Q&A
It's a tradition at every Teaching Guitar Workshop to give attendees sticky notes so they can write down questions as they arise. When there is a critical mass of stickies the TGW Clinicians answer all of them. Not surprisingly lots of attendees ask questions about...
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