FGH-0020: Interview with Don Alder - Fingerstyle Champion, Composer and Vocalist
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Release Date: 07/22/2020
FGH 0026: Interview with Peppino D'Agostino - Transcendant Guitarist and Composer
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Summary, Episode 26: A native of Italy, D’Agostino has made his considerable international mark as a musical artist on the guitar since he arrived in America 37 years ago. In 2017 Guitar Player listed him as one of the 50 transcendent superheroes of the acoustic guitar. The CD, “Every Step of The Way,” was awarded by Acoustic Guitar’s People’s Choice Awards with a Bronze medal for Best Acoustic Album of All Time. His signature Seagull acoustic guitar has been voted among the ten best signature guitars by Guitar Player magazine. To date, Peppino has recorded 19 CD’s,...
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FGH-0025: Interview with Jon Gomm - Singer Songwriter and Fingerstyle Innovator
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Summary Episode 25: Jon Gomm is a singer songwriter considered to be one of the world’s true virtuoso guitarists possessing a unique style most elite musicians consider revolutionary. Jon was born and continues to live in the North of England. His songs are driven by his use of one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, basslines and twisting melodies all at the same time with no external effects. The emphasis remains on his soulful vocals and songwriting with his original material influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead. His live shows combine deeply personal performances...
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FGH-0024: Interview with First Rate German Acoustic Guitarist Thomas Fellow
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Thomas Fellow is a musician with an almost inexhaustible supply of innovative energy. He is a first rate acoustic guitarist,
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FGH-0023: Interview with Muriel Anderson - Multi-Dimensional Fingerstyle Champion
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Muriel Anderson is one of the more multi-dimensional guitarists on the
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FGH-0022: Interview with Billy McLaughlin - His Historic Comeback
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
For twenty years, Billy McLaughlin astounded audiences around the world with his complex and rhythmic music.
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FGH-0021: Interview with English Fingerstyle Guitarist Richard Smith
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Richard started playing the guitar at age 5 and has never looked back. Focusing early on with the fingerstyle guitar of Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed, he began transcribing classical music, Jazz, the gypsy style of Django Reinhardt, bluegrass, ragtime and the blues to Sousa marches.
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FGH-0020: Interview with Don Alder - Fingerstyle Champion, Composer and Vocalist
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Don Alder plays acoustic fingerstyle guitar with a passion that has quickly earned him a reputation as Vancouver’s “best kept little secret”. Don is a world-class fingerstyle guitarist with a “wow factor” that has let to multiple endorsement deals with major manufacturers and a collaboration with Greenfield guitars to produce a signature acoustic guitar- the “Don Alder G4” model.
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FGH-0019: Interview with Don Ross - 2 time National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion & Composer
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
In 1988, Don became the first Canadian to win the U.S. National Fingerpick Guitar Championship. He won again in 1996, still the only two-time winner of the competition.
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FGH-0018: Interview with Jazz and Country Master Guitarist Jim Nichols
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Jim Nichols has an unusual approach to the guitar - he uses a thumb pick and fingers to play everything from Chet Atkins style to modern jazz.
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FGH-0017: Interview with Australian Guitar Virtuoso Michael Fix
The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout with Adam Rafferty
Over the past 25 years, Michael Fix has released fifteen albums, together with several DVD’s, songbooks, singles and EPs, tours internationally each year, and has established himself as one of Australia’s finest guitarists and composers, writing evocative music for television, film and documentaries.
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Don Alder plays acoustic fingerstyle guitar with a passion that has quickly earned him a reputation as Vancouver’s “best kept little secret”. Don is a world-class fingerstyle guitarist with a “wow factor” that has let to multiple endorsement deals with major manufacturers and a collaboration with Greenfield guitars to produce a signature acoustic guitar- the “Don Alder G4” model.
Don currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His unique style of playing incorporates fingerpicking with simultaneous percussion on the soundboard to create a wall of sound.
He is often referred to as sounding like a four piece band. Don’s music is his own unique weave of deeply textured melody and story. Lyrical and compelling, his original songs are notes of exploration – some passionate and haunting, some hard-driven, others light and teasing.
In quiet pieces or pushing right to the edge, Don’s phenomenal fingerstyle playing and rich voice captivate.
“Don is Canada’s secret fingerstyle weapon – it’s only a matter of time until everyone discovers this world class player. I am honored to have Don endorsing my guitars.” World Class Luthier, Michael Greenfield
(Timestamps are for audio version of the podcast.)
- 2:44 Welcome Don Alder!
- 4:20 Don’s earliest musical inspirations
- 8:34 Don gets an electric guitar in his hands for the first time
- 14:02 Don starts playing in bands
- 15:52 Don and the bass player’s onstage gun prank goes wrong
- 19:42 Don explains how he started playing solo acoustic guitar
- 22:39 Music – Don plays his composition “Fingers Fingers Fingers”
- 27:30 Don becomes a studio player
- 37:01 Don’s musical, color, touch, and his personal approach to the guitar – how to learn how to play like yourself
- 46:07 At a live performance people are looking for a journey, they want to walk home with an experience
- 52:04 Don’s advice he would like to give to more guitar players – more heart, play music not just songs and technique
- 53:35 A fellow guitarist seeking advice writes a song for Don Alder
- 57:31 Don’s message to all musicians
- 58:58 Don’s last message to everyone!
- 1:00:03 Ending credits and podcast contact info
- 1:03:01 Music – Don plays his composition “Haunting Me”
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