Let me welcome you to the first installment in my new blog. For those of you interested in music history, you may visit my other blog at http://musicsupplemental.blogspot.com. For those of you interested in jazz guitar, then here is the place to come!
I will post a variety of short (and hopefully useful) articles on a wide variety of topics related to jazz guitar, including everything from maintenance to jazz theory and history.
BE SURE TO OPEN THE ARCHIVES TO SEE IF THERE ARE ARTICLES AND MEDIA FILES THAT WILL INTEREST YOU. THERE ARE ARTICLES IN WHICH I SHARE MY MUSIC, BUT THERE ARE MANY MORE ARTICLES WHICH GIVE HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OR TIPS ON PRACTICAL THEORY.
I hope over time, that readers might become involved and add their articles. One step at a time, however, so I will let you all know when I have arrived at the point. For now, I will leave the comments window open so that you can add any information that you believe makes an article better, that is, once articles start appearing. You can go to the comments window by clicking on the article title. One rule--play nice.
ALL GRAPHICS OPEN INTO A LARGER WINDOW IF YOU CLICK ON THEM.
Also, please visit me at my website www.richardmetzgerguitar.com and at my You Tube Channel. Thanks!
About Me
- Richard Metzger
- I trained as a classical guitarist and as an historical musicologist. My area of study includes Renaissance and Baroque instrumental music, and I have published two volumes of music from those periods for use by both scholars and players. Over the last few years, however, I have fallen deeply in love with jazz and especially jazz played on the archtop guitar. Early in my career I performed recitals on both the classical guitar and the lute, but now all my efforts go to developing skills as an improvisational musician. This new focus drives this blog, which I hope will become a community for sharing information at all levels, from beginner to advanced. I am also hoping that contributors will not be limited to jazz guitarists, but that players of other instruments and singers will share their valuable perspectives, experience, and knowledge.
Richard - nice site! Between this and all of the You Tube videos - you've been pretty busy!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words. I have been very busy but hope to get back to the unfinished articles on this blog.
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