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By: ometecreekdog

ometecreekdog — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:02:25 +0000

Mr. Nygaard,
Thank you for your inspiring music. I picked up No Hurry some years back, and fell in love with it. I was in a blue funk at the time where I couldn’t decide whether to keep trying to play guitar, or just chuck it and take up the tissue and comb, or maybe spoons…I vasilated between inspiration and desperation. A closet musician at best, I decided to keep trying, thanks to your obviously heartfelt approach to music. Strong and True in particular gave me hope. Not so much that I could ever pull it off, but that perhaps that I too could convert those lingering emotions into a melody. I returned to the stairwell where the acoustics are good, took another run at it, and have been at it ever since.
I hope it’s as much for you as it appears to be.
thanks again.
steve

By: scottdnygaard

scottdnygaard — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:40:20 +0000

Thanks Robert. Glad that was helpful. I use mediums on the D-28 and lights on the Schoenberg 00. The 00 is so lightly built you can’t really use mediums, and they don’t really help the tone on that guitar. Lights work just fine. But I use mediums on all my other dreadnoughts.
Scott

By: Robert Kulik

Robert Kulik — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:17:05 +0000

Hey Scott,
First of all, thank you so much for your generosity in sharing your amazing skill and talent with the rest of us guitarists. I’ve played guitar for more than four decades and continue to play professionally, and while I’ve always listened to celtic and folk music, and occasionally played some, only recently have I fallen in love with bluegrass/old time. (I was classically trained, but I’ve mostly played jazz and rock.)
When it came time to start to get serious about it, of course I sought out your wonderful Bluegrass Lead Guitar DVD. In studying this material, I couldn’t help but notice that while some of the techniques seem rudimentary, all of them of course applicable to an infinite variety of situations. Translation: your patient, relaxed, and detailed instruction set off lightbulb after lightbulb in my head (and fingers) upon even my first viewing. What a rush! I feel like a kid again, learning to Play again. Anyway, I will pick up other of your videos and instruction books. Can’t wait to find a band to play with!
I do have a question. I was wondering what gauge strings you use on your acoustics? I noticed that they seem quite flexible, yet they’re also quite resonant. Do you use the same gauges on the parlor and the dreadnought?
Hope to catch one of your gigs soon. Thanks again!
All the best,
Robert

By: scottdnygaard

scottdnygaard — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:12:26 +0000

Hey Gary,
Dreamer’s Waltz was published in a couple of books, which are both unfortunately out of print. My next project, after getting a couple of new CDs out, will be to produce a book of all of my original tunes, which will include tab to Dreamer’s Waltz.
Scott

By: Gary Martin Rolinson

Gary Martin Rolinson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:28:39 +0000

Hey… I would really like to learn the arrangement of Dreamer’s Waltz but i cannot find the music or tab anywhere? Is there a copy on the net at all?
thanks,
Gary Martin

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:04:03 +0000

Hey Paul
What guitar are you playing on your instructional dvd guitar on the song, “Little Billy Wilson”?

By: scottdnygaard

scottdnygaard — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:36:50 +0000

Hey Paul,
Glad you like those recordings. I used my 1956 Martin D-28 on both the “No Hurry” and “Dreamer’s Waltz” CDs.
Scott

By: Paul Allopenna

Paul Allopenna — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:15:39 +0000

I’m curious as to which of your guitars you used in recording both “Never Will I Marry” and “Red Apple Rag?” I’m particularly fond of these tunes and your beautiful arrangements. Thanks! -Paul Allopenna