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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
BookDavid’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.’
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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!’
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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.
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