Steve Massey Fingerstyle Guitar

I will be playing a live 1 hour set at our Medford Westminster Pres Church on July 19th for a fund raiser and silent auction to raise money for an Orphanage in Kenya. I will use my Collings OM1A. By the way I borrowed a friends M-Audio Firewire 410 and have a new Web Cam so I am starting to have fun recording some guitar videos on my own here with some of my songs. I will try and put one out here soon.

I have been trying different guitar strings, I tried mediums on my Collings OM1A from Martin but did not really like them. I am trying light gauge again from Elixer nanos. Hopefully they will last longer.

The Web Cam has been very helpful in arranging also because it helps me remember things I wrote rather then have to write out a note at a time which takes forever.

Just a quick note that I am playing a 30 min set Friday night at Westminster Pres Church Medford Oregon May 2nd and then at both services on Sunday May 4th at Westminster Pres church again in Medford.

Recording of new Hymns CD coming along great. Using my Collings OM1A and am going to use Medium strings for more bass and depth. Using a KM184 mic and Rode mic which is working. Wish I had a better preamp but am using Mackie 1604 which is pretty good and clean but a bit cold sounding, not bad though.

We ran out of NorthWest and Wood CDs at Amazon but I am going to send a bunch more to Amazon shortly. So thanks for emails on that and the interest out there on those 2 CDs

Just got back from Memphis TN. Great trip. Got to watch some filming of movie "Soul Man" on Beale street with Justin Timberlake. Looks to be a great movie when it comes out.

Got to take tour of Gibson Guitar Factory.  Heard some great Blues guitar including some great fingerstyle blues

and Delta Blues. Great stuff.

Got a few requests for tab on my Hymns including " A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" I am working on the tab and a song book that will be for sale on my web site later this year along with CD.

Steve Massey

I am playing live tomorrow at our church during the offering. I will be doing my new arrangement of

Holy Holy Holy which will also be in my song book (that I have been working on for 6 years but will get it done

one of these days)

Our church is Westminster Presbyterian Church 
2000 Oakwood Drive
Medford, Oregon 97504
Tel:  541-773-8274  

The service is at 10:00 AM in the smaller informal room. Come up and say hi if you happen to come!

Steve Massey

I am working now with Sibelius G7 Tab Software to create TAB for my DADGAD Hymns arrangements. I am going to sell a songbook on line here on my website once completed with 12 of my original Hymns arrangements all in DADGAD. I was inspired by Peter Huttlinger and his great song book he did on Hymns with a few in DADGAD. http://www.petehuttlinger.com/   Also Mark Hanson http://www.accentonmusic.com/  is a great resource for DADGAD guitar Hymns and has a great book. My copy is getting worn out from so much use!

One of my great guitar heros for DADGAD is Pierre Bensusan at http://www.pierrebensusan.com/  I had a chance to see Pierre here in Ashland Oregon this year 2007 and it was just amazing. I got to talk with him which was just great. Also I am using Pierre's DADGAD guitar strings all the time now and just love them.

Speaking of guitar heros - Alex De Grassi!  He is just great and a very nice person too. I hope to take another 3 day guitar seminar with him maybe even this year! Alex is just great with DADGAD.

Anyway I am finding that putting the standard notation in first and then creating tab is working much better in G7 because I can put multiple voices in like a dotted quarter note and eight note for bass string D as voice 1 and then triads and such on top of that as voice 2. Then G7 creates the TAB from the standard notation and thus you have both voices. G7 will allow up to 4 voices which is very helpful.

I was trying to input tab first and then create standard notation but that is hard to do because TAB does not really "understand" note rhythms. So starting with standard notation first works much better.

Takes some time to do but should be pretty nice for guitar players that want to learn the arrangements for Hymns in DADGAD to perhaps play at churches and such.

Thanks for the emails from a few of you that requested TAB for my DADGAD Hymn arrangements. I will put one of my Hymn arrangements as PDF as free download once completed to give an example of what song book will look like.

I wish everyone a great Christmas and Happy new year.

By the way I got my Collings OM1A back from Eugene this week - had the neck worked on and is just great!

I recommend Charlie at McKenzie River Music in Eugene for Guitar repair. He is great.

Steve