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Acoustic Adventures: Cascading Celtic Guitar

Pete Huttlinger

A medley of three Celtic tunes: "Drowsy Maggie," "The Morning Dew," and "The Cup of Tea."
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Pete Huttlinger has become widely known as one of the most awe-inspiring acoustic guitar players in the world. His unique arrangements and spellbinding musicality and precision have entertained audiences from Los Angeles to Milan. As a recording artist, Huttlinger has released numerous albums and performed at all three of the Crossroads Festivals. For more information about his latest release, Finger Picking Wonder-The Music of Stevie Wonder, visit petehuttlinger.com. Photo by Paul Schatzkin.

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Wayne
on 04/26/2011 		I have an Ibanez acoustic with round wound strings. In the recording you may be slidng but I cannot hear any string noise. How do you achieve this?
Jon
on 03/24/2011 		I'm sorry S. Paxton, Anton has it 'right' i.e. there is more than one guitar track, on this particuliar recording anyway. We all agree that Pete's a great player, but having heard both Anton and Pete live, Anton's got the celtic thing 'down'. (assuming Anton is the Anton I know..from the same place I 'know' Pete)
S. Paxton
on 03/16/2011 		Well Anton......the beauty of Pete's music is, amoung other things, he makes one guitar sound like many. Your comment in the second to last line says it all, "accompanied by multiple rhythm guitars". This is a solo guitar recording...one guitar sounding like multiples. Huttlinger rocks.....nice job Pete!!!
Anton
on 03/15/2011 		Nice article. Pete Huttlinger is an excellent player and a highly successful Nashville musician. However, to me the rhythmic backup sounds like a bluegrass musician trying to backup celtic music. It emphasizes the 2 and 4, and has the boom chuck sound. Celtic backup should emphasize beats 1 and 3 more, and players generally hit all the strings at once, as opposed to the boom chuck you find in bluegrass. Open tunings like DADGAD and CGDGCD can be very handy for arranging these tunes fingerstyle, as is standard tuning. They allow you to play the melody as well as a bass voicing and inner notes, all at once, if the arrangement calls for it. The arrangement here is nice, but the recording is just essentially the single melody line accompanied by multiple rhythm guitars. If its going to be arranged that way why not use a flatpick to play it.



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