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| So glad to hear your doing better Pete. I think I have every one of your Homespun DVD`s and they`re great. Hope we can look forward to more now that your feeling better. Anyway, here`s my question. I`ve been working on Circle of Steel from your Gordon Lightfoot DVD and I love the way that you`ve arranged the Recorder part after the 3rd and last verses. As you know the recording starts with a longer version of the Recorder part as the intro. Been wondering why you didn`t put this in? I arranged my own 8 measure intro by taking your 4 measures from the end of the song and making up the first 4 measures with the slightly different melody over the same chords, ie. F#m/Bm, etc., and it seems to work, even though they aren`t the same chords as the guitar-part intro, ie. D/C/D/G, etc. I think it works because the F#m and Bm are good substitutes for the D chord, and so on. Am I right? Did I miss something? Cheers! Garry. |
| Garry E.
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gsquared@rogers.com Toronto , ON Canada - Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
| Thanks a MILLION for your health update,,,,,,,,,and it was a great one at that! Keep looking up! (I understand the fishing analogy!) |
| BobT
USA - Thursday, January 05, 2012 |
| Hi Pete, Hope all is progressing well with your health. Don't know if you still answer these questions, but if you do here is one: I'm thinking of getting an additional guitar and am curious about an acoustic short scale. What are your thoughts on these guitars? I have no problem with the standard scale but curious about the shorter scaled guitars. Thanks!!!! Steve |
| Steve Paxton
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sepvet@vetpaxton.net Ludington , MI USA - Monday, December 05, 2011 |
| Pete - I'd received your email regarding suggestions for selections to be transcribed for the Dan Fogelberg #2 DVD. Here are three that I would recommend: * Believe In Me * Leader Of The Band * Run For The Roses(arr. for guitar) Thanks for your consideration and I hope you have a speedy recovery. |
| Neal Techau
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neal@kymail.com Cynthiana , KY USA - Wednesday, September 07, 2011 |
| Hi Pete, I recently bought your "Songs of Gordon Lightfoot DVD". I'm really enjoying it, but I'm struggling with the strumming pattern for early morning rain. On the DVD, you do it a bit too fast for me to really figure it out and duplicate it.Can you help? |
| Bernie Dupuis
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bernard.dupuis@skvelocity.ca Prince Albert , SK Canada - Monday, September 05, 2011 |
| Pete, Just learned about your health issue. I can only hope that all turns out well. My sincere thanks for doing such a tremendous job with Dan Fogelberg's music on HomeSpun. My best. Wayne |
| Wayne
USA - Sunday, August 14, 2011 |
| Pete, I hope your doing better. We talked on the phone about 3 years ago. You actually called my house about a misplaced JD cd. I called you back and we spoke of fishing and Eureka Springs Ar. You ask me to check on the venues there and...well...I didn't, I wish now that I had. Anyway, I thank you for that phone call it shows that you are a stand up guy. My question is, on the Darcy Farrow tape. While your singing the song the camera pulls away from your guitar and I would like to see all the chords your playing. Thank you so much for your work on the guitar. Jeff |
| Jeff Slinkard
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chainsaw.slinkard@gmail.com lincoln , ar USA - Tuesday, August 02, 2011 |
| Dear Peter, pleas send me your excelent arrangemets for fingerstyle guitar I WISC or suggest me where can I getit. Thanks you in advance Beri Iskra |
| BERI ISKRA
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info-aai@net.hr Rovinj , Croa Europa - Sunday, July 03, 2011 |
| My prayers are with you that you will be back on your feet and feeling better soon. I was wondering however if you had any tab or know of any for one of my favorite songs "Looking for Space". I've never seen it in any books, or at least anything that was accurate. God bless, Pete. |
| dale rhine
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dmrhine@sherwin.com Worhtington , OH USA - Monday, May 16, 2011 |
| Keep looking up! |
| RLT
USA - Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| Dear Pete, I have searched the Internet endlessly to find sheet music for cello and guitar for your tune, McGuire's Landing, to no avail. May I please tell you a little story behind my foremost desire to learn and play your song. McGuire's Landing was featured in a CD that came along with my subscription for Fingerstyle Magazine published in Sep/Oct 1999. I am an avid guitar player. I was awestruck the first time I heard the song. I kept the CD for safekeeping and told myself someday my son and I will play the tune together. He was seven years old then. He took formal cello lessons for five years, was playing well until he was 12 years old when he abruptly stopped in defiance, due to his preconceived notion that I forced him to take cello lessons. But when he turned 16, he began picking up the cello on his own accord and must have now realized how wonderful to play the cello. Now he is 18 years old and we share the same craving to play together. I let him listen to the CD I kept for years, he was dumbfounded as I was, the first time he heard McGuire's Landing. We have been looking for a guitar/cello sheet music/tab but cound not find anywhere. Does it exist? I know the guitar piece is in one of your books which I can easily order anytime. Its the cello part I am seeking your assistance in finding. I don't see it on your online store. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Simeon and Michael James Calacsan |
| Simeon Calacsan, Jr
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scalacsan@yahoo.com Corona , CA USA - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 |
| Hi Pete. Do you have the tabs for Aspenglow, Back Home Again and Poems, prayers and promises? I would like to buy those if possible. DId not know if you had a JOHN DENVER TAB package where I could buy all of the tabs for his songs. THanks for your reply. Mike |
| Michael White
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mawhiitedds110@aol.com St. Louis , MO USA - Monday, April 18, 2011 |
| Just wondering.... why are none of these questions answered? |
| Jon
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ecodreamer@verizon.net Cerritos , CA USA - Tuesday, April 12, 2011 |
| Hi Pete, We're a couple of groupies from Massachusetts and we hope you're doing well, you've been in our thoughts. I have what may be considered a rare copy of your Naked Pop CD from 2000 (with the original album cover). I'm 46, but feel like a kid again with my new DAP! I'm a confessed stickler for album art without access to a scanner and can't seem to find any .jpg's online of this artwork. Might you be able to post a downloadable copy on your web site briefly, or be so kind as to e-mail one to me? Thanks much, you're our guitar hero! ~Cheers, Sheila |
| Sheila
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smjohnson0291@gmail.com Auburn , MA USA - Wednesday, April 06, 2011 |
| Hi Pete, hope this finds you well. I've been working on Mill Creek (what a great and fun tune) and wanted to know if you play it with straight down on the down beat up on the and beat picking alla what people like Steve Kaufman advocate or whether you play more "economy" picking like folks like Tony Rice tend to play. To my ear it sounds more like the former except for a couple of places but I'm not sure my ear works as fast as the notes go by Thanks and take care |
| John Kappel
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the4kappels@sbcglobal.net Frisco , Tx USA - Friday, April 01, 2011 |
| Hi Pete, Hope your recovery is progressing well. I have more of a request than a question. Was wondering if you have plans for another installment of a chord DVD. The first one ("Wonderful World of Chords")was tremendously helpful and I would love to see another chord lesson come out. Also if you do another chord lesson, could you please give us tips on how to add "fill" runs smoothly between the chords to add a little zip and musicality to the chord progression? Thanks in advance.....your lessons are always a great help. Steve |
| Steve Paxton
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sepvet@charter.net USA - Tuesday, February 08, 2011 |
| Any chance you would consider doing another Gordon Lightfoot DVD? It would be great to have you do songs like: Song For a Winter's Night, Beautiful, Softly, I'm Not Sayin/Ribbon of Darkness, Don Quiote, Sundown, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald..... That would be enough for another DVD - What do you think! rick |
| rick sutton
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rsutton@mi.rr.com novi , mi USA - Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| I am trying to find the John Denver SHEET MUSIC for "Boy from the Country" as well as "Calypso".... are they in print? |
| Jon
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ecodreamer@verizon.net Chino , CA USA - Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| Hi Peter, I bought your John Denver DVD and also the Jim Croche. I am interested in learning to finger pick the intro and accompanyment for John Denver's song "For Baby" can you help ? Tks Robert Tay |
| Robert Tay
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roberttay@uobkayhian.com Singapore , Sing Singapore - Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
| Dear Pete Huttlinger, Firstly I wish to thank you for producing the excellent Learn to Play John Denver & Jim Croce DVD's with Homespun. I recently got volume 4 of the former and volume 2 of the latter. Currently I am learning Lover's Cross from the Jim Croce DVD vol. 2. My questions relate to John Denver and one song that is not featured on any of the DVD collection, and a second song that you taught the intro to one of the volumes, and for which you provide free Tab, namely 'Darcy Farrow'. With regard to Darcy Farrow, I was hoping, when you have time, that you could perhaps provide a video link on your site teaching the remainder of the song and also sing a little as I have found this song particularly hard to play and sing at the same time - it seems very hard to know when to start singing. Thank you for considering this request. The other song I wish to ask about is a song called 'Grandma's Feather Bed'. I love this song and would be most grateful if you would provide, if possible, some sort of Tablature/Lesson that teaches this song. (I would love a 5 string Banjo Tab for this song also) On the topic of Banjo's, do you or anyone else know where I might be able to get a Banjo Tab for the Tune 'Pickon' The Sun Down' which appears on 'An Evening With John Denver' CD? Thanks for taking the time to read my post and for the help you give to budding Guitarists like myself. S.A. |
| Steven Armstrong
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steven.armstrong@hotmail.co.uk Lincoln , Linc UK - Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |