(Available as a digital download or CD) Guitar legend and partial capo pioneer Harvey Reid plays a whole album of solo guitar music with just the 2 middle fingers of the left hand, to illustrate the mysterious musical power of what he calls Liberty Tuning. No one ever really took simplified guitar seriously before, and Reid shows how it is possible to play sophisticated solo guitar music, in several keys, with major, minor, modal, blues and other tonalities, with resonance, melody, harmony, rhythm, bass lines-- more easily than anyone ever imagined. To make sure that people understand that Liberty Tuning is not just for beginners or children, Reid launched his unveiling of this new guitar "hyperspace" with this inspired recording, that basically sounds like any other solo guitar record.
See the March 2014 rave review of the "Liberty Guitar Album" in Premier Guitar Magazine
With "Liberty Tuning," a simple new guitar environment that you can do with any guitar in 5 seconds, beginners can now play great-sounding chords with easy 2-finger shapes, and the difficulty level of playing basic guitar songs just dropped dramatically. You need a universal partial capo or our new Liberty "Flip" capo to generate Liberty Tuning, though you can do part of it with most standard Esus 3-string capos. Visit the "Liberty Guitar" web site.
SONGS: Fields of Gold (Sting), The Liberty Blues (Reid), All I Have To Do Is Dream (Bryant), St. James Infirmary (Trad.), Old Joe Clark (Trad.), Tennessee Waltz (King/Stewart), Nocturne in Fm (Reid), Stephen Fostering (Trad.), Moon Shadow (Stevens), Shady Grove/Wildwood Flower (Trad.), Thinking of Jimmie (Reid), Simple Gifts (Trad.), Woodying (Trad.), Nursery Rhyming (Trad.)