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Nocturnal

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David's Biography
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David Mead is the best selling author of titles like Ten Minute Guitar Workout, Chords and Scales and 100 Tips For Guitar. A respected journalist, he has edited two of Europe’s biggest selling guitar magazines and contributed numerous articles to music publications worldwide.

‘A fantastically analytical mind - and a wonderful player…’ Martin Taylor MBE

New Book
David’s new book ‘Learn To Play Guitar In 24 Hours’ has just been released. The book contains 24 one hour acoustic guitar lessons for beginners and comes with a specially recorded DVD. But we must point out that it’s not David teaching on the DVD. David says: ‘People are going to ask me why it’s not me teaching on the DVD and so I thought I’d clear this one up straight away. I don’t know why they didn’t use me. It was my publishers’ decision – I wanted to do it myself but they decided to use actors instead. Frankly I’m as puzzled as everyone else by this... I don’t want people mislead into thinking they’re buying a DVD where I’m talking them through the lessons.’

Arboretum
The big news is that the new album, Arboretum, will be released on The Guitar Label. David was offered a deal on the strength of some demos he sent to the Dundee-based record label at the end of last year. ‘Obviously I’m hugely excited by this and at present it’s very much a case of heads down, with the end in sight. I’m very pleased with the new material – and the new Fylde guitar is really spurring me on to get the writing finished and head off to the studio as soon as I can. I might even preview some of the tracks online' – watch this space!

New Guitar!
Whilst work was in progress to produce the new album, David decided he needed a bespoke acoustic guitar and chose a specially made Fylde Falstaff by Roger Bucknall in Penrith. ‘I needed an instrument that could cope with drop tunings without getting soggy in the mid-range. I tried a few, but when I met Roger we talked about the sort of instrument I wanted and he listened to ’Nocturnal’ so he could hear where I was coming from, musically. So I settled on a Falstaff.’

The new instrument took four months to build and David asked for pictures to be taken at every stage - they’re available to view here: http://photobucket.com/davidmead. ‘It’s a beautiful-sounding guitar – I’m still discovering its hidden depths!’

iTalk Guitar
David has just taken over as online editor for an exciting new networking website called iTalk Guitar.

The site is a meeting place for guitarists of all styles and levels of ability where you can chat in the forum, read up to the minute news and articles about playing.

By creating a profile on the site, you can upload MP3s and videos of your band, contact other like-minded players and get your playing heard.

David says: ‘The site is still in its beta testing stage at the moment, but I think it could quickly turn into something huge. I was very flattered to be asked to take over the online editing and look forward to playing my part in the site’s future development.’

New! Read David’s blog at italkguitar.blogspot.com

Read Guitar Techniques’ interview with David
The October 2006 issue of Guitar Techniques featured an interview with David, conducted by the magazine’s editor, Neville Marten. You can download the interview as a pdf by clicking here. Thanks to Neville and Future Publishing for letting us reproduce the interview.


Acoustic Guitar Workout - metronome times
The metronome speeds for the exercises in David’s book ‘Acoustic Guitar Workout’ are available to download as a PDF by clicking here…

Guitar Workout - metronome times
Readers of David’s best-selling ‘10 Minute Guitar Workout’ will be delighted to know that we have restored the downloadable pdf containing metronome times for all the charts in the book. It’s available by clicking here...

Workout Erratum. New – Version 1.1
David has received quite a lot of emails regarding a few printing errors in his book ‘10 Minute Guitar Workout’. So, to set the record straight once and for all, he’s produced a PDF alerting readers to the ones he knows about. You can download it by clicking here.


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