A bit of slide

 Trying out some slide on the Fender Dreadnought (DG5) in open G tuning (DGDGBD)

Ernie Ball Earthwood medium light strings (got em for free, trying em out), Dunlop 222 brass slide

Its been a while...

And some wooden picks I got last Christmas 

We Three Kings

 We Three Kings, the first Christmas carol in The Guitarist's Way supplement book, played with a pick on the Fender Dread.

Scales X2

 Playing the A scale with a skippy beat, on 2 different guitars.

2019 Valencia hybrid nylon, 2004 Fender DG5 Dreadnought

Starting on the 3rd string (G string), 2nd fret.

Restrung the Fender

 The Fender Dread had Martin Monels on, good strings but they were a bit too heavy (13-56) and the action was a tad high (3.5 mm at the 12th fret)

A friend on the Acoustic Soundboard forum kindly sent me 2 sets of strings, Ernie Ball Earthwood and Newtones customs. I decided to try the Ernie Balls.

Restringing went...ok. Cleaned up the fingerboard with baby oil then went ahead with the re-stringing. But I discovered I'd put the 4th string in the 5th string's tuner, so had to redo that. Then I found that the 2nd string (B) wasn't holding its tuning. The wrapping around the post wasn't secure, so I took it off and re-did it. 

Finally I got it all done and it sounded much better. The strings are very resonant

Couple of guitar pieces

 First two pieces from The Guitarist's Way book 4, Riff and Sounds Irish, the latter played with a pick.

Britches full of Stitches x2

 I dusted off the mandolin (literally) and had a go at this fiddle tune. Not easy, its cramped in there!

Then I tried it on guitar-my first attempt at flatpicking. I have to get used to using a pick and doing the upstroke on the 8th notes. Using a 1.2 mm generic pick. It's certainly louder than fingerstyle that's for sure! And flatpicking on guitar is a lot easier than on mandolin!

Carnival +

 Carnival, a song from The Guitarist's Way but with my own middle section added.

Played on the Fender Dreadnought wearing Martin Monels, mediums

Land of the Silver Birch/The Hurdy Gurdy

 A couple of guitar pieces from the third Guitarist's Way book. One on the steel string, the other on the Valencia nylon string guitar.

2 guitar pieces and a new technique

The first two pieces from the third Guitarists Way book. 

Blue Lake and Rocky Shore. 

Rocky Shore sounds similar to the previous piece but employs a technique called Tambora where the strings are struck with the thumb, near the bridge.

Polish Dance

 Another piece from The Guitarist's Way, book 2. Played on the Fender Dreadnought

Spanish Dance

 A piece in The Guitarists Way book one, played on my trusty Fender acoustic.

Chords practice

Practising the progression from Knocking on Heaven's Door - G D and C.

First on the Fender Dread, then on the Tanglewood Super Folk

Need to get the muscle memory in for clean chord changes.

Czerny etude

 Going through the Carol Barratt book again. Got the Czerny etude, op.599 no. 11 down

 And a bit of piano fun, 

plus guitar...

5 chord progression

 Another of Marty Schwartz's tutorials, using D, Em, G, A and Asus2.

Once I'd got the chords down reasonably cleanly I decided to try playing them fingerstyle.

Guitar practise

 Back to guitar after some time away from it, now I have sore fingers, again...

Re-string x 2

 The strings on my Fender acoustic were too light, it was affecting tuning, so I decided to get some medium weight strings for it (Martin Monels, 13-56). My partner ordered them for me and as a surprise she got a second set, for my Tanglewood, which has had the same strings since it was bought, back in 2011!

So today I finished stringing them up. Unfortunately I lost one of the Tanglewood's original bridge pins, so I alternated with some black pins I got from Wish.

Acoustic fun

 Played some blues and chords today on the Fender DG5 

Some 12 bar blues:

E7, A7 and B7, which is a tricky chord but I'm getting there.

And a nice little bluesy chord progression.

A major 7th, Eminor,(repeat both), C minor and D7

X02120, 022000, X02120, 022000, X32310, XX0212

Riff at the dusty end

Just noodling up the neck on the Fender dread.

Little piece in DADGAD

Having tuned my Fender acoustic to DADGAD I went looking online for chords, and I found a nice I IV V progression, with a Cmajor shape as a break. Not sure what chord C becomes but it plays C, E, G, Bb and D (bottom D muted)
An app  tells me its Gm6add11...

Fender DG5, D'addario EJ15s

Slide guitar

My Dunlop brass slide next to my Fender acoustic,

and a video