History of Acoustic Guitar: Robert Johnson

The name we are talking about today really needs no introduction. Robert Johnson was not only a great guitarist who changed the history of this instrument but he is still an absolute point of reference for those who love guitar…

Orablù: The new Podcast

A few days ago I met Gep and David of chitarrafacile, with whom I have been collaborating for some time now. The opportunity was that of a chat, during the usual podcast broadcast on the youtube channel, in which to…

History of Acoustic Guitar: Chet Atkins

With this new video, shot for "Chitarra Facile", let's close the circle on the so-called "Nashville Sound". In fact, after talking about Merle Travis and Jerry Reed, this time it's the turn of the great Chet Atkins. It is no…

History of Acoustic Guitar: Jerry Reed

Here we are at a new episode of this history of acoustic guitar and fingerstyle. In this column, created for the "chitarrafacile" site, we have considered some of the protagonists of the acoustic guitar who have become particularly important for…

History of Acoustic Guitar: Merle Travis

Here we are at the second appointment of this journey through the history of the acoustic guitar and the technique of fingerstyle: a series of videos made for chitarrafacile, to discover the great names that formed it and contributed to…

Acoustic Guitar History: Elizabeth Cotten

Here it is a new video shoot for chitarrafacile. With this appointment we inaugurate a series of videos that I wanted to dedicate to the history of the acoustic guitar. The goal was to take some of the most representative…

Podcast Chitarra Facile

A few days ago I met  David and "Gep" of chitarrafacile;  I work with David and his youtube channel as acoustic guitar tutor. This meeting was an opportunity to talk about the new book "Blues da Zero", just released for…

New Basic course on chitarrafacile.com

Those who follow my musical activity will have seen that in recent months I started a collaboration with David Carelse, founder of the site and youtube channel chitarrafacile.com. The aim was to propose the fingerstyle guitar to guitarists who follow…

Third lesson with chitarrafacile.com: Irish music

In this new video lesson for chitarrafacile.com we temporarily leave the world of blues to discover a new musical dimension. One of the genres that I love most on acoustic guitar and that is suitable for the fingerstyle technique is…

Second lesson with chitarrafacile.com: brush and triplets

Here we are at the second lesson for chitarrafacile.com. In this video we continue to talk, as in the previous one, about the OSTINATO BASS technique, adding, in this case, two new techniques to enrich the phrasing, always keeping the…