044 - A Fingerpick You NEED To Know About




Acoustic Tuesday Show with Tony Polecastro show

Summary: ➜All show notes and links: https://acousticlife.tv/at44/➜Get the show: https://tonypolecastro.com/get-acoustic-tuesday   The acoustic rocket has carefully been placed on the launch pad, safety harnesses are fastened, helmets are in place... all systems go. The countdown begins 10... 9... 8... All aboard are intergalactic guitar geeks ready to see what lies within the galaxy of geekdom. 7... 6... 5... Constellations made of abalone, satellites held together with 80/20 bronze guitar strings, moons made up of layers upon layers of exotic tonewoods. 4... 3... 2... A gargantuan galactic gathering place where guitar geekiness flourishes. 1... Blast Off!!! Welcome to Acoustic Tuesday, your gravity-free guitar geek world chocked full of all of the guitar goodness that you should be aware of. Featured in This Episode #4 Spaceship Finger Protectors Fingerpicks are little bent pieces of metal that sit atop your fingers so that you can dig in, pull some extra volume out of your instrument, maintain clarity, and absolutely destroy your cuticles. It's true, for all of the good that fingerpicks do, it comes at a cost of damaging the cuticles of your picking fingers, but it doesn't have to be that way anymore... #3 A Summer Acoustic Music Destination Summer is absolutely chocked full of musical opportunities from local hotspots to national festivals that fans trek miles to. There is literally something for everyone. One festival that I think everyone should know about and at least attend once is... #2 What's On the Turntable This Week? I love her ragtime infused fingerstyle blues. Her playing is like listening to Robert Johnson but having a little something extra thrown in there. Kinda like eating your favorite dish at your favorite restaurant, but they won’t tell what the secret special ingredient is... #1 Your May 2018 Donation Report Acoustic Tuesday finds all of us guitar geeks uniting every Tuesday, but this week we get to celebrate a whole new level of guitar geek solidarity...