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Hello everyone!
It has been a while since I last did a blog post (and this will be a short one to get my feet wet again). Now that the U.S. election has happened and a potential COVID vaccine has been announced, … Continue reading
Guitar players! Check out my summer workshop…
I will be offering a 4-day acoustic guitar workshop this coming July at my home in beautiful southwest Scotland. If you are a guitar player interested in learning my integrated percussive approach, this will be a thorough, in-depth opportunity to … Continue reading
Posted in Composing, Guitar, Learning, Music, Performing, Teaching
Tagged Acoustic, Composing, Guitar, learning, Music, performing, workshops
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The 20th anniversary of my instructional video
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the release of my 1994 instructional video, The Guitar of Preston Reed: Expanding the Realm of Acoustic Playing on Homespun Tapes. (I can’t believe it’s been twenty years!) In the late 1980’s I … Continue reading
Posted in Composing, Creativity, Guitar, Learning, Music
Tagged Composing, Creativity, Guitar, learning, Music, Percussion, teaching
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Recording an instructional video project
A few weeks ago I flew to Colorado to record a video series for an internet company specialising in online guitar lessons. I had been contacted by the company about six months earlier and liked what they were offering guitar … Continue reading
Posted in Guitar, Learning, Music, Neuro-science, Teaching, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tagged Guitar, learning, Music, teaching
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An incredible year
I think this past year has been the biggest of my life. It was a year of creating, producing, traveling, performing, making new friends, learning, meeting challenges and growing. It was a year of “firsts” — my first album in … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Guitar, Learning, Music, Performing, Photography, Recording and producing, Teaching, Thoughts, Touring, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Guitar, learning, Music, thoughts, Travel
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What I gain from touring
The tour is over. Fifty-one dates/ two-and-a-half months…just like that. I can’t believe there’s no airport to get to, van to climb in, hotel to check into, venue to set up in, sound check to do, show to play, fans … Continue reading
The anxiety of opportunity
This is an unusually big month. In addition to going into the studio several times to continue recording my next album and heading over to Ireland to play at a festival, I will be playing my first-ever hosted, internet live-on-air … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Creativity, Learning, Psychology, Thoughts
Tagged business, Creativity, learning, psychology, thoughts
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What I learn when I teach
I taught a workshop yesterday for a theatre full of music students at a college outside of London. The workshop consisted of me performing tunes, explaining my musical approach, illustrating it with representative examples on the guitar, and fielding questions … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Music business, Teaching, Thoughts
Tagged learning, Music, teaching, workshops
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