Happy Birthday John Lee

 Happy Birthday John Lee Hooker

Born this day 1912

Happy Birthday Mertz

 Happy Birthday Johann Kaspar Mertz, born this day 1806

Happy Birthday x2

 Happy birthday to Mauro Giuliani and Enrique Granados, born this day 1781 and 1867 respectively. 

Happy Birthday

 Napoleon Coste

Born this day 1805

Happy Birthday Chet Atkins

 Born this day 1924

Open D tuning

 Set the Tanglewood up for open D or Vestapol tuning (DADF#AD) and it sounds fab!

 

And then a little bit in DADFAD. Just dropped the F# to an F

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 

Happy Birthday Agustin Mangoré

 Happy Birthday Agustin Barrios Mangoré, born this day 1885. The music world would be very different if he hadn't been born.

Happy Birthday Carcassi

 Happy Birthday Matteo Carcassi

Born today 1792

Happy Birthday Sanz

 Happy Birthday Gaspar Sanz, born this day 1640

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

Happy Birthday Tarrega

 Happy Birthday Francisco Tarrega, born this day 1852

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!

Happy Birthday Aaron Copland and Narciso Yepes

 Born today 1900 and 1927 respectively.