Steve Massey Fingerstyle Guitar

Hi Everyone,

I am very slow at creating my Hymns Tab for Hymns for Guitar DADGAD Tab so I am in the process of getting a Godin midi guitar and Midi unit so that it will greatly speed up the Tab creating process. Putting the songs in one note at a time is taking me years to do!! I will keep everyone posted on how this new process will work. I hope to have Tabs out much quicker.

It has been fun to add some Alex De Grassi techniques that I have learned like playing in DADGAD 4 against 3 and tapping and so on. Makes the guitar arragements work well.

Once I have the song book PDFs available for sale on this site and the MP3 files ready I will start work on a video that will also help with learning these songs. Most songs I think are pretty easy to learn but a few might be a bit more of a challange like "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" for example.

DADGAD is a wonderful tuning for Hymns arragements I have to say. Just addes alot with cross strings and all.

Steve

 A word of thanks to all of you who have contacted me about my DADGAD Hymns CD and Songbook coming out. It is taking a lot longer than I had planned to get the guitar Tab and recordings finished. I will keep this website updated on progress.

This website will plan on selling the entire DADGAD Hymns arrangements CD or individual Hymns and MP3 and downloadable PDFs so you can learn the songs and play them at your churches or other settings.

I have been playing my DADGAD Hymns arrangements now for a few years at our church during the offering and people do seem to like them allot.

Contact me if any questions and I will work hard to get the DADGAD Hymns guitar arrangements CD, MP3 and Tab here as soon as I can.

All Guitar Hymns Arrangements will be in DADGAD tuning and will have both MP3 and WAV and PDF downloads.  Thanks to Peter Huttlinger for his first two Guitar Hymns CD's and song books. They have been a real inspiration to me in my years of working on this project.

Thanks also to Alex De Grassi for such a great guitar camp in California! - So helpful in working our my own arrangements.

Here are the DADGAD Hymns for Guitar Arrangements that I have completed now and am in the studio recording and finishing TAB PDF's for. 

Amazing Grace

It Is Well With My Soul

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing

Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee

Holy Holy Holy

Solid Rock (My Hope Is Built)

This Is My Father's World

(two more being worked now!)

Thanks!

Steve Massey

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