Preston Reed
Selected Discography
I don't play guitar but I know how to enjoy listening to it! Preston is great!
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Phenomenal picking style and abilities... l i k e listening to how a cascading spring thaw waterfall might sound if rendered on a guitar
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Open Tuning means when the guitar is tuned to, basically, something *other* than the native E-A-D-G-B-E that guitar is normally tuned to. Drop D (tuning the low E down to D) is one such tuning, but there's plenty of other open tunings out there in use. Pierre Bensusan's publishing company (I think) is called DADGAD Music because he has a penchant for tuning to D-A-D-G-A-D. That's a fantastic open tuning, by the way.
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Is open tuning when you tune the low E to an open D ?
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Marygrider's question: may sound kind of wild but here goes: Open tuning is very old. It was passed on to rock and folk primarily through the blues, but was used in renaissance and classical music as well. The guitar is actually 5000 years old; the open tunings most commonly used on the 6 string guitar come from the blues, bluegrass, and celtic music. In modern rock music, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton popularized open tuning. Neil Young used it on "Cinnamon Girl."
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I love this. Who really started open tuning anyway?...I think that Joni Mitchell certainly helped push it along.
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Can't believe there's no bio on this guy...freaki s h l y talented!
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All the albums pandora has are 2000 and on, he recorded back in the 90's didn't he?
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this dude is like kaki king and yngvai malmsteen's magical love child. Open tuning does wonders, doesn't it?
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I had a general acoustic station setup...and this came up. Ladies night... Very cool sound.
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i heard this pop up on my flying burrito brothers station... thought it was micheal hedges. very nice.
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He is a great technician - used to stay at my house while on the road 25 years ago. Used to play a pair of maple guitars ( 6 and 12 string) made by Michael Jacobson Hardy - what projection!
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