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The Song

At first, he sang for love
Of singing and for one
Who laughed and wept and listened.

He sang to water falling
On sand and the steep woods
And streaming against stone.

He sang in the cold
For the lives and deaths of birds
And forests and elders.

And then he sang to be
Believed, waiting alone
Under a shut window.

On the shore, at the feet of trees,
By a creek, by a silent house,
He changed to what he sang

And became for a time nothing
But a voice in the distance
Touching the ears of others.

And now he sings again
For love in a way no stranger
Or lover will ever hear

Without remembering her
In his arms, no matter where
Or how that singing ends.

--David Wagoner

Erik Mongrain

A rising guitar player, in the style of Michael Hedges.

Thanks, rumisong.

"Mom&Child" by Leonid Khodyrev

From a typical review of this book: "He encourages the readers to try the exercises not just in other keys and positions (which we should all be doing anyway) but in other rhythms as well, truly making them your own. The content itself is very easy to understand and work with. If, like me, you've been practicing the same sort of stuff for years, the material in here will not only beef up your lines and overall knowledge of the instrument, it'll make you feel like you ran into the phone booth as Clark Kent and came out Superman. After I had a few things down and started trying to improvise with them it was scary how fast I was able to adapt the ideas into my style and how they instantly added a whole world of melodic depth to my playing."