Legato in Single String Etude #5 by Frank A. Wallace

Posted by on Jul 10, 2019 in #techandtone, video | No Comments
Legato in Single String Etude #5 by Frank A. Wallace

  Legato melodies sing Single String Etude #5 provides more opportunity to improve your melodic skills. What are melodic skills? This series of videos and articles offers a simple oversight of various techniques to enhance your playing:

Single String Etude #4 | thumb rest or free stroke?

Posted by on Jun 26, 2018 in #techandtone, Blog, video | No Comments
Single String Etude #4 | thumb rest or free stroke?

Rest or free stroke? The thumb is a remarkable digit that can easily move between rest or free stroke with striking musical results. A precise angle of approach to the string combined with a small tempo change

Single String Etude #3 – vibration in the top

Posted by on Jun 4, 2018 in #techandtone, Blog, music | No Comments
Single String Etude #3 – vibration in the top

Vibration is all Why do we play guitar – or music in fact? To feel vibration. That’s all it is. No vibration equals no sound, no feel, no emotion, no joy or sorrow. Nothing. So what matters

Shifting melodically on the guitar | Single String Etude #2

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Shifting melodically on the guitar | Single String Etude #2

Shifting to Learn Shifting is a technique that I believe should be taught very early in a guitarist’s studies. Fear of upper positions is created when we get stuck playing chords and arpeggios in first and second

Lessons from Sketches I – Single String Etude #1

Posted by on May 15, 2018 in #techandtone | No Comments
Lessons from Sketches I – Single String Etude #1

Hi – I present here a series of videos to talk about my compositions and my approach to the guitar – mini lessons, if you will. They will be short, and to the point. If you want