MARTIN D-35

My new guitar (a 50th anniversary) Martin D-35:

Update

A few things going on musically:

1. Playing fingerpicking guitar style a bit. Here’s me doing the old Fleetwood Mac song, “Never Going Back Again.” Lyndsey Buckingham gets such cool sounds from the guitar. Here’s a version I recorded yesterday: 

https://app.box.com/s/a8ow9mlrf9ncgn4k1ahiae5s11ns7c1p

2. Playing a gig soon with the band of Christmas songs. We call the show “Christmas in July.”

3. Got a free piano and just paid for the moving of it. Will eventually have to get it tuned. Where I go with piano is now at the stage where I just want to incorporate inversions in a number of songs (with left hand playing root only).

4. Playing some jazz standards with a woodwind player and our bassist.

5. What I’m mostly excited about is a new book I got: 

“Beyond Chord Melody” by Martin Taylor with Joseph Alexander. I’m up to page 16 and really liking it.