June 30, 2025
Introducing his book: "The Holistic Guitarist"
Friend of the society, Sean McGowan, will be giving a workshop covering a comprehensive approach to staying healthy, practicing creatively, and improving as a musician. There’s a reasonable chance he might play a song or two, I’m guessing.
The accompanying book is now available:
See https://store.acousticguitar.com/products/the-holistic-guitarist
Sean talked through many examples chapter-by-chapter in his new book, emphasizing what leads to good playing health and what can lead to serious problems. Then he demonstrated some example stretching motions with several volunteers (below).
He finished up by playing his arrangement of “All Blues” by Miles Davis, with both hands fretting and plucking on the neck:
Here’s a youtube of Sean playing this same piece on this same guitar.
The guitar Sean is playing is the Cadenza model by LHT Guitars, and it’s half inch reduction in body thickness where the right arm rests demonstrates the point he made that the guitar should fit the person without causing unnatural posture.