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

Serenade, in blue

 Played on my blue Tanglewood Discovery which for some reason was quite a bit harder than when played on the classical!

Serenade

 Serenade by Peter Nutall, the final piece in book 3 of the Guitarists Way, and its bloody gorgeous!

I love that middle section!

Pastorale, redux

 A piece in The Guitarist's Way book, redone, played on strings 1 and 2 rather than trying to play it all on one string. Also played the repeat.

Then I played it on ukulele

Pastorale

 A simple one line piece in The Guitarist's Way book 3, played in the 7th position.

Spanish Dance

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

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.

Carol of the Bells

Quick version on my Tanglewood ukulele.
Merry Christmas one and all

Bit of blues

On my Tanglewood concert uke

Tanglewood improv

A little ditty on my Tanglewood acoustic in standard tuning.

Bit of fingerstyle guitar

I've not even touched a guitar in months, but tonight I got the urge. The Fender DG5 is in open G and I started playing slide but I need a decent brass slide. I'm using a bit of copper pipe joiner but its surface isn't flat, so I stopped that and did a bit of fingerstyle instead.

Stairway to Heaven intro

I got myself a footstool and music stand to help me learn classical guitar, and while it may be a cliché the intro to Stairway to Heaven is a perfect piece for practicing finger placement. I don't read music fluently (working on that) but I am very familiar with that tune. So why not!

My two acoustics

Fender and Tanglewood go head to head. Its quite hard to choose between them-the blonde Fender DG5 (2004) has a bigger, deeper sound due to it being a Dreadnought style guitar but it's a bit too big to handle comfortably, and always hurts my fingers. The blue Tanglewood Discovery (2011) however is smaller, easier to handle but has a narrower neck less suited to fingerstyle I suppose. Both sound fabulous though and the Tanglewood played straight out of the box, whereas the Fender needed a set up, having a very high action from the outset.

Fingerstyle in open G

Just a little fingerpicking exercise I came up with in Open G (DBDGBD) on my Tanglewood.