Special offer!
 David’s
CD Nocturnal now available at a special price through www.guitarcds.net
Just follow the link below and you'll be eligible for a
very special price on David’s critically acclaimed
album, Nocturnal. To mark the onset of 2008, we're selling
the CD at £9.99, beginning now... So go grab yourself
a copy!
Remember that you can listen to five tracks from the CD
by going to David’s MySpace page at www.myspace.com/drmead.
Nocturnal is available to buy on line via credit or debit
card, WorldPay or PayPal at www.guitarcds.net
- just click on the link below to go straight to the site.
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David's
Biography
Read all about it - the story so far…
click
here... |
David
on MySpace…
Currently something of a work in progress, David now has a MySpace
site
- click on www.myspace.com/drmead
and listen to album tracks, read blogs
and watch DM struggle to join the 21st Century! |
Contact David
 If
you would like to contact David personally about his clinics, books
or magazine columns, please do so: email here
Spam,
Spam, Spam!
David’s inbox has been getting a lot unwarranted email
recently and so if you want to send him a message, please make
the header something guitar related in order to get around the
rather vicious spam filter we’ve had to put in place.
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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
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.’
Take a look now by clicking on www.iTalkGuitar.com
 New
books!
David’s been busy at the word processor lately, resulting
in no less than three books in the pipeline for forthcoming
release via Music Sales.
First of all, there’s ‘24 Hour Acoustic’
which contains 24 structured lessons for the beginning acoustic
guitarist. The book is accompanied by a DVD which shows you
all the important moves contained in the text.
Secondly, there’s A Guitarist’s Guide to Reading
Music for the Guitar which is, erm, self-explanatory, really!
Here, David helps players who want to learn to read for the
instrument begin the path towards total fluency. He says:
‘Tab is fine for a quick fix, but to get everything
out of a page of music you really need to know how to join
the dots. It’s not the easiest instrument to read for,
but there are a few shortcuts available...’
Last, but not least, the latest title to leave for the publishers
is called ‘Secrets of the Fretboard’. ‘It’s
a little Indiana Jones sounding, I know,’ David
says. ‘But basically it explores the theory behind
chords on the fretboard - how they’re formed and how
you can learn them without the need for constant reference
to a tutor.’
The release schedule for this trio of books spreads across
autumn 2008 to early spring 2009. We’ll post more details
when we have them |
 Workout
Erratum
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.
 New
Album - ‘Arboretum’
Following on from the success of David’s 2006 release,
‘Nocturnal’, work is already quite advanced on the
sequel. ‘The working title for the album is ‘Arboretum’
and we’re well past the foundation digging stage,’
David tell us. ‘I’ve written quite a lot of new
material and have made some demos, meanwhile I’m writing
more tunes and hopefully everything will come together very
soon.’ Watch this space! |
 All
That Jazz...
After two years writing technique columns for Acoustic magazine, Martin
Taylor and David are now collaborating on some articles for Guitarist.
‘This is where we started writing together way back in the early
1990s,’ says David. ‘I understand that the columns we
wrote back then where we transformed ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’
into a solo jazz guitar piece are still sought after!’ This
time, Martin has recorded three different versions of the tune ‘Greensleeves’,
beginning with a simple melody and bass part and turning into a full
blown solo version. The new column is scheduled to begin in September
2008.
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… |
 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.
Watch
David on Video!
David’s November 2007 clinic at Chappell of Bond Street,
Yamaha’s flagship store in London’s West End,
was filmed by his old friend James Cameron and you can watch
a couple of excerpts here...
video
1 The first is David playing ‘September Farewell’,
his tribute to the memory of Eric Roche.
video 2 The second features David talking about an interesting
way of using a capo when playing in DADGAD tuning. |
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.
Good
Morning USA!
We’ve received a lot of email recently from people in
the US asking if they can buy David’s books stateside
- and the answer is yes, you certainly can. We recently received
confirmation from David’s publishers, Music Sales, that
the books are currently in stock online at the US www.musicroom.com
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