Guitar Techniques

SESSION shenanigans

Classical guitar masquerades under a plethora of aliases. Nylon-strung guitar, gut-string guitar, the aforementioned Spanish guitar. On occasion you may even be handed a part that says, ‘acoustic guitar - Latin fills’. Or ‘bossa nova feel, fingerstyle’. You might be surprised to learn that a number of folk who ply their trade as composers or arrangers aren’t appraised of the fact that these are descriptions of exactly the same instrument. Indeed, there are those who write ‘Acc. guitar’ at the top of the music when they can neither differentiate it from a steel-strung guitar

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