The Fingerstyle Guitar Hangout Podcast with Adam Rafferty

13/07/2024

Enjoy "Ciao Bella!"

► Grab the "Ciao Bella" TABS for FREE -- https://www.adamrafferty.com/ciao-bella/Hey - here's my original composition for solo guitar "Ciao Bella." The ins...

08/07/2024

Hey! Enjoy "MISTY!" :-)

Here's my new updated fingerstyle guitar version of the classic tune "Misty" composed by Erroll Garner.The first version I did on this was a hit...and I felt...

02/06/2024

Enjoy! "Fly Me To The Moon" - Fingerstyle Guitar - Adam Rafferty

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24/02/2024

Hey Gang, enjoy "TOO HOT!" by Kool & The Gang...

Here's my fingerstyle guitar version of the Kool and The Gang classic - "Too Hot."Tuning is Dropped D tuningD A D G B ECapo 3rd FretHeya!I LOVE the song "Too...

17/02/2024

Bebop was calling me more than my acoustic last week....

Here's my jazz guitar version of "Cherokee" with some of the back story - and why I think it is ESSENTIAL to learn and practice it.► Start learning my solo a...

02/02/2024

Hey! I’ll be on YouTube LIVE today for a livestream to answer your guitar questions and play some music for you.

Hope to see you there - times below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-1VPskQTcs

Friday Feb 2, 2024
2pm EST
12pm MST
11am PST
8pm European Central Time

Hey! I’ll be on YouTube LIVE today for a livestream to answer your guitar questions and play some music for you.Hope to see you there!Friday Feb 2, 20242pm ...

26/06/2023

Greetings friends. Top o’ the morning to you!!! 6:14 am…thunderstorm outside. Coffee brewing…it’s a great day! Recently a fellow musician was asking me about how I have produced DVDs, CDs, booked tours and basically been a productive musician. He himself is an awesome guitarist, so musical t...

22/06/2023

I just got back to NYC a few days ago from a short trip to Germany. I was a guest artist at the Remschied Guitar Festival in Germany – and it was a lovely scene and experience. The students were mainly classical and rock guitar players – and they were excellent. With each student I […]

19/06/2023

There is an age old argument about music. What do we prefer, someone who is technically brilliant, or someone who “plays with feeling”? Most all of us will say “the player with feeling”. I remember as a teenager we’d have our back-and-forth about Eddie Van Halen vs Jimmy Page, saying Jimmy...

15/06/2023

Before buying an acoustic guitar, thoroughly check these tips first to see the pros and cons between a stage and a living room guitar.

12/06/2023

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08/06/2023

Greetings friends! I am so happy….Fall finally feels like Fall here in NY. I can’t say what an exciting time this is in my life….we truly do go through cycles. And I am actually very excited about how I am able to reach so any new fans & friends via onlie efforts (blog, youtube, etc). […]

05/06/2023

Gang, I hope you are well. I know I have been quiet here on the blog for some time, and I have actually been been missing writing for you, and for myself. Here is an update to let you know where I am at mentally, creatively and spiritually (today is March 6, 2018.) Today I […]

01/06/2023

Greets from the road! Each tour has an outer experience and an inner experience. This tour has been especially wonderful in terms of the inner journey. Outer stuff: The shows, posters, Facebook posts, and fan interaction, travel, making new friends, etc. Inner stuff: What’s going on inside emotion...

29/05/2023

When you play the guitar, what are you listening for in your playing? Are you listening for small and important details? Or are you stepping back and listening to the “whole”? How should you be listening? Let’s take a look at this… When a painter works on detail, she is super close up to the...

25/05/2023

Rock and pop musicians can learn a lot from jazz musicians. Jazz musicians can learn a lot from rock musicians though – and this is what I find more interesting! The rockers can learn about harmony, melody, rhythm, counterpoint, form, technique, practicing, swing, and great tunes of years past. I ...

22/05/2023

That’s the sound of what you’d want a bass player or drummer to make so that if you were playing with them, you’d feel the beat from what they are doing – not only hear the note. A certain “thump” with a depth of tone is possible on guitar… You can do it – but […]

18/05/2023

Yesterday I heard a fascinating message from author and lecturer Gregg Braden as I was looking for interesting quantum-physics type stuff on youtube. Mr. Braden talks often about the “holgraphic nature” of the universe. Before you start yawning and thinking this is about to be “quantum dribble...

15/05/2023

Sometimes when we work on the same creative project for a long time, under the same circumstances we can get into what is called a “rut.” This can happen whether it’s practicing guitar, writing, work responsibilities, painting, etc. It’s the feeling of no matter how much we practice or work,...

11/05/2023

One thing I find particularly fascinating is “time”. Even as a kid I saw a problem with our linear concept of time. I did somehow see that there is only a present now moment and future and past are thoughts. I’m not saying I am a luminous teacher of a new world religion – but […]

08/05/2023

A few days ago, I was contacted by Matt Oestreicher for a podcast interview on The Mindful Musician. Our talk started with Matt mentioning how much he loved my 2015 in review post from last year. Knowing that this resonated with him made me realize I should do it again, so here is my 2016 […]

04/05/2023

Hi Gang! Wow, it’s been a helluva travel time here…I am now back in NYC after 9 weeks on the road in Germany, Austria Belgium and Holland – and Niagra Falls. Many loyal fans took video at gigs. When I saw this, I thought I’d finally share this “secret” technique with you. I call it […]

01/05/2023

I’d like to start off by wishing you a wonderful, Happy Healthy Thanksgiving. I recently read about how gratitude literally re-wires ones brain, unlike any other thought-feeling-emotion – whatever you’d call it. For that reason, I’ve decided to resume my “gratitude journaling.” I am only...

27/04/2023

Greetings, and I hope you are doing fabulously! This year has been full of rich, satisfying “real life” stuff like touring, family, moving, teaching my “Study With Adam” online guitar students, and recording. Transparency Report and Major Goal Achieved In January 2016 I offered you a “tran...

24/04/2023

I'm gonna give you some straight talk about healthy guitar practicing and taking good care of your body and hands. Here are 10 tips for you.

20/04/2023

Greets Gang! I am on a morning train from Dresden to Osnabruck, Germany today…it’s a sunny morning, and my eyes are barely open… I just finished 4 days in the Czech Republic playing for the “Guitar Across Styles” festival, and had a wonderful visit there. As I sit on the train, I am feelin...

17/04/2023

Hi friends. What I am about to write is rather diary like. Hope you don’t mind. It’s also a THANK YOU note. Ok, to all of you who have kids, and a house and 2 cars and many responsibilities, my life probably looks like a walk in the park. Hey, I have been careful to […]

13/04/2023

Greetings! It’s been a crash course in recording solo guitar to be in the studio working on the new Michael Jackson fingerstyle guitar album. The studio has officially kicked my butt, but I am a fighter. Next week are rounds 4 & 5. Recording solo guitar (or solo anything) is an entirely different ...

10/04/2023

Greetings friends.It is 7 am in NYC and I have just emerged from my morning meditation. No it was not mellow, it was a distracted mind, but I sat there anyway! Late last night I listened to one of my favorite “modern day” spiritual teachers – Marianne Williamson, and was reminded of a simple b...

06/04/2023

April 1, 2010 Greets friends…I am cruising at about 30K feet on the first leg of my journey to the UK to play the Oxford Jazz Festival, Liverpool Philharmonic and more. I have a happy ending to tell you about. I’d like to talk about perception, and also discuss reading personal meaning into impe...