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Listen to tracks from Nocturnal



Private Lessons

David occasionally has limited spaces for private students. If you would like to make an enquiry, please send an email here with ‘Private Lessons’ in the title pane. The lessons would take place in Bath, Somerset, UK.


Contact David

If you would like to contact David personally about his clinics, books or magazine columns, please do so: email here



David's Biography
Read all about it - the story so far…
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David’s Blog Site

David has a blog site called Talking Guitars which he updates regularly – pay it a visit!




Website of acoustic guitarist, writer and journalist David Mead




Arboretum now available on CD!
‘Arboretum’ is now available for the first time on CD and you can order it online from this site by clicking here. As a special deal, you can buy both ‘Arboretum’ and ‘Nocturnal’ together for the exclusive price of only £12.99 + p&p!

‘A glorious set that somehow touches your inner soul. Miss at your peril!’
Guitar Techniques

‘You play so beautifully and have a great tone!’
Tommy Emmanuel CGP

‘Beautiful music!’
BBC Radio

‘Lush and atmospheric acoustic guitar tracks...’
Acoustic Magazine

Transcriptions
We have four transcriptions available from ‘Arboretum” and ’Nocturnal’ so far and will be adding more in the coming months. All tracks are in standard notation and tab and have been transcribed by David himself and so there’s a high percentage of certainty that they’re dead right! See the store page for details by clicking here

Autumn Gig Dates
David is on tour in September and October 2011 – go to the gigs section for a full listing.

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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