Don Ross plays "Aerial Boundaries" by Michael Hedges

POSTED WITH PERMISSION OF DON ROSS. Recorded at guitar workshop in Cannington (Ontario, Canada) on Saturday, September 15, 2001. Don Ross remembers how to play "Aerial Boundaries" by Michael Hedges. Don, who has big hands, is playing somebody else's thin-necked Taylor. Tuning: CCDGAD

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• Don
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• Michael
• Hedges
• acoustic
• guitar
• fingerstyle
• fingerpicking
• heavy
• wood

[mrtraumatic]

Respecting Don's amazing skills, wondeful music and videos and guitarmusic1's profile, I think this one should be removed.

In my opinion Aerial Boundariecs shouldn't sound like that...

[guitarmusic1]

I'm not going to remove this video. It is what it is. Maybe it doesn't have any value as a rendition of Aerial Boundaries but it shows how open Don is in his workshops and his skill at remembering a difficult tune he hadn't played for many years.

[bodylove33]

that is ibanez shit not good for a song like that but good job anyways don you are the man

[guitarmusic1]

It's a Taylor, not an Ibanez. Read the description of the video.

[veggieburgerfish]

michael, michael, michael...

see what I did there?

[funnystuff1284]

man it just goes to show you how amazing michael hedges was, if someone like don ross had troubles playing it, granted he hasnt played it in a long time, the song looks easy to play but damn i hear its hard.

[RicardoBatistaPassos]

@bodylove33 Hey, first i have to say that ibanez is not shit... though there are greater options to play Michael Hedge song, ibanez have alot of greaat guitars that do the work for sure, and secondly, like people already said, its a Tayler dumb ass -_-.

If you delete your comment than ill delete mines...

[Soilwar]

It's good to see even masters forget songs they've learned some time ago!

[edshift]

I think it was amazing playing on someone else's guitar from memory.

I mean really. Put a guy on the spot?

He did well.

[LukeSniper]

Don is such a wonderful person and musician. I'd love to see him perform this piece on a guitar he was more comfortable with (and not trying to pull it from memory on the spot)

[HarrrySpider]

Michael wrote the liner notes to Don Ross’ first CD, Bearing Straight (1989):

"... I play the guitar because it let’s me dream out loud. Don’s record is like a good dream. I can’t tell you what the dream is about, but I can feel it. Thanks for the music, Don. Love, Michael Hedges..."

[sacredgeometry]

@guitarmusic1 idiot*

[sacredgeometry]

@guitarmusic1 What an idiiot it even says taylor on the headstock :/ people these days....that and ibanez make some really nice affordable acoustics

[ehhhhhhhhhh]

So funny watching Don fuck up. I've watched 50+ videos of him and never seen him screw up.

[catamaranman333]

Yeah yeah, Taylors are great guitars but I'd stay away from the ones with the 3d pickup that uses a "aa" battery. The battery vibrates in its "niche" badly and the official fix from Taylor was to wrap a post-it note around the battery.  It helps but doesn't eliminate the buzzing, especially when heard through studio monitors. After nothing could be done to fix the problem, I traded mine in on the D-35 I've been wanting forever. IMO Martin is the better sounding guitar, 2x the price though!