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5:07

Blow it Away

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/10/02

The great late Jeff Becks album Blow by Blow with George Martin was just great. Worth a visit anytime is case you forget how goos Jeff Beck was.

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4:21

Don't take it to heart

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/10/01

I'm not sure anything is really gained by being too sensitive - its a bit like the song from earlier in the month " The Art of the Putdown" . If you're become too sensitive to negative stuff it can set you back so much.

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3:37

The Influencer

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/30

Influencers - thats a new one on me - what on earth is that about ? Self appointed internet guru's offering us their view on just about everything. I'll be giving that one a miss.

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5:31

Herbie

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/29

A pastiche of the great man- I had fun recording it..

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3:27

Watching the Clock

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/28

Clock watching - in some of the work I've done I've been very guilty of doing that. It is certainly the case that the more you watch the clock the slower it seems that time passes.

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5:49

Living on Borrowed Time

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/27

When you get on a bit in years you suddenly start seeing one or two friends who have gone at life really hard start to fall apart. Its sad - because its so often the nicest souls who leave us first.

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4:46

Tierce de Picardie

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/26

A device in music where a section is resolved with the major tonic chord rather than the minor. I don't think I used it in its true sense - and it only happens once or twice in the piece - in the early part. I came across it when playing rennaissance and baroque stuff - John Dowland used it in his Fantasie pieces ( I think ). An upbeat Friday tune...

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1:40

Rainbow Wood

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/25

This is an arrangement of a tune called Rainbow Wood by the guitarist John Anderson. He featured it in his tutor book and I've added a second guitar part, a bass and a choir ( !) to the piece. My guitar group like the solo so I hope they will enjoy the group piece.

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3:13

After Hours

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/24

What we do in our hours when the meter isn't running is often more valuable to us than what we get paid to do. This months useful (?) tip.

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3:39

Mysterious Lady

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/23

The Fortune Teller. Mystic Meg ( shows how old I am !) the astrologer - they've got it made - foreseeing the future - a great gift. The only thing is - if it had any bad bits in - I'd want to change them - can you do that ?

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4:21

Same Old

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/22

An old fashioned ballad - lamenting I'm not sure what - same old stories, tales, memories, songs - no idea really.

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4:51

Keep it Safe

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/21

A re-mix of a song from late 2023. About protecting those around you - particularly the young and old. Gaza, Ukraine, any area of conflict seems to suffer the most and looking after your loved ones is really out of your control. At this time of year at work we're bombarded with Safeguarding stuff - and rightly so - but the broader aspect of looking after your own whenever and wherever you can is never far from your thoughts.

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2:59

Man Cave

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/20

As about as politically incorrect as you can get.. The room where a bloke has his stuff - things to repair, things he has no idea how to repair ( but hopes he'll work it out one day) the cigars he's trying to smoke on the quiet and the bottle of whisky to go with it. Plus all the bills, accounts and maintenance projects he will get around to - maybe next year.

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2:58

Do you need a reason ?

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/19

Its Friday - Do you need a reason ? Enjoy the weekend .

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3:44

My Tailor.....

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/18

I don't have one - but the charity shops in the UK are just excellent. The Sue Ryder charity shop is just one of them - but currently my favourite, with the Dogs Trust running a close second. A good time to get the winter wardrobe sorted out.

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3:38

Prelude No.5 - Villa Lobos

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/17

This has become my favourite Villa Lobos Prelude over the years - played on Roberts 2nd Hybrid guitar- made whilst he was doing his Deliveroo job in Nuremberg and making the guitar in his "spare?" time. Described as a Homage to Social Life - I always felt this was more of a chore than a prelude. It has a straightforward melodic structure and clearly defined sections - a great piece.

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3:05

Maybe in Paris?

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/16

My idea of a Django/ Villa Lobos meet up in the Paris of late 1920's probably never took place - but here is the use of their two musical styles - a bit of nonsense.

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3:33

Prelude No.4 - Villa Lobos

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/15

The piece is played on Roberts 2nd Hybrid guitar built when he was living in Nuremberg and working for Deliveroo. The guitar has a strutting structure of carbon fibre and is maple with a spruce sound board - effectively a white guitar with ebony saddle and nut with the Wittner pegs once again. Very distinctive looking and with a good sound across the range. Prelude No.4 is described by Turibio Santos as a Homage to the Brazilian Indians - the stillness of the opening theme contrasted with the...

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3:28

Living on Air

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/14

The diet some of the families in Gaza are having to live on is little more than Living on Air. There is a ( not well supported ) belief that a human can live on air and light alone: Breatharians ? The breatharian lifestyle requires that a person give up food and water altogether and live purely off prana, which they also call "living on light" or "living on air." Foremost Breatharian, Jasmuheen, formerly Ellen Greve, reportedly started today's breatharian movement. Her Prana Program adv...

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5:41

Prelude No.3 Villa Lobos

Guitar Emporium ·

2025/09/13

The piece is described by Turibio Santos in his book Heitor Villa Lobos and the guitar as a homage to Bach - and the second section certainly is.. I just think there is a bit of Django Reinhardt in there particularly in the chords and arpeggios of the first section. Villa Lobos was in Paris in the late 1920's - I think - its inconceivable to think that he didn't hear Django .. Anyway I like to think he did .. This prelude is played on the Alhambra guitar I use for teaching and Robert re-built...

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