Welcome To The Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Studio

Come and join the webs most hands on video tuition website. Here you can learn all there is to know about acoustic fingerstyle guitar with renowned guitar teacher Brother John from The Blues Preachers. Connect with the roots and source of modern blues and contemporary music, by going back to the sounds and techniques of […]

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The Blues Preachers

NEW RELEASE: ‘DEAD CATZ CAN BOUNCE’ The Blues Preachers continue their blues and roots musical journey with their latest release: ‘Dead Catz Can Bounce’.Unlike their previous releases, this album contains 7 original songs about the big issues of today: the global financial crisis, greed, relationships, global warming, materialism, life and death and the search for […]

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Need Somebody On Your Bond

The Blues Preachers, Brother John and Captain Bluetongue, perform their version of Blind Willie Johnson’s ‘Need Somebody On Your Bond’ as featured in The Blues Preachers E-book. Nobody’s Fault But Mine TAB

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NEW!!! The Blues Preachers E-book version 2.0

As performed by THE BLUES PREACHERS and featuring “Divine Justice Coming Down”which was chosen by Yoko Ono as runner-up in the John Lennon 70th. birthday anniversary song writing contest.The accompaniment, intro, outro and both slide solos have been transcribed. Also included is TAB for songs by Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Robert Wilkins, Blind Willie Johnson, […]

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Celtic folk guitar and the music of Turlough O’Carolan

Turlough O’Carolan was born in 1670 in County Meath and died March 1738 at the home of his patron Mrs. MacDermott Roe in County Roscommon. He was a blind Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. He was the last great Irish harper-composer and is considered […]

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Important Quotes

“The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits” Willie Dixon “If the blues is an ocean, and that ocean is condensed down to a lake, and that lake is condensed down to a river, and that river is condensed down to a stream, and that stream is condensed down to a […]

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Buying A Fingerstyle Guitar?

Do not buy a Dreadnought. This type of acoustic guitar tends to produce a boomy bottom end but lacks volume and definition in the top end. The Dreadnought is a great strumming and flat picking guitar. Do buy an Auditorium, OM (orchestra model), triple O (OOO) or double O (OO) style guitar. These guitars produce […]

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