Michael Hedges - sister soul

off of the road to return..Michael Adam Hedges (December 31, 1953 December 2, 1997) was an American composer and acoustic guitarist born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma. He is widely considered to be one of the best solo acoustic guitarists of all time. His music features his own unique performing style which features harmonics, fingerpicking, knocking and slapping.

Michael Hedges was a conservatory composition major who applied his classically trained musical background in combination with radical innovation to reinvent the steel string acoustic guitar. He combined many unusual techniques on the acoustic guitar with a wide range of musical styles, and was also considered a dynamic performer in concert - in short, a Paganini of the guitar.

He is known for extensive use in several pieces of two handed tapping techniques (nearly a contrapuntal style of multiple voices). He used the fingers of his right (typically picking) hand to slap harmonic chords at the 12th, 7th or 5th fret (or elsewhere). He made use of right hand hammer-ons, particularly on bass notes, and often used the left hand for melodic or rhythmic hammer-ons and pull offs, as well as unusual strummings, that played, as mentioned, independent voices to the right hand. These techniques tended to convert the guitar into a quasi-keyboard like instrument for certain musical purposes. He also made extensive use of string dampening as employed in classical guitar, and was known to insist strongly on the precise duration of sounds and silences in his pieces. Other facets to his playing were percussive slapping on the guitar body and extensive use of artificial harmonics.

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[marcusdolby1]

Thank you for all great music Michael. Words cant express how much your music means to me. When you were in Charlotte NC playing at Spirit Square, I shouted for you to play this song and you did. A simple request for a spirtual song. Hard to listen to this without getting choked up.......RIP: The world was a better place with you in it.

[naturalshanti]

so very true and beautiful my friend~<3

[TNTJahv1er]

his sister soul or his sister's soul?

he already looks like his sister xD just kidding....

I like the acoustic and the feel, thanks :)

[naturalshanti]

ahaha..nice one..glad you" injoyed" :)

[aftertee]

beautiful song!!

[naturalshanti]

It is!..I just wish I made the time to make a nice video to go along with it..:)

[gkfcarsnev]

i used to listen to this song over and over and over. i will never get over that he is gone.

[marcusdolby1]

My favorite song off TRTR. I used to play this song all the time.

[naturalshanti]

ahaha...yes apparently he used to use it on stage as well...<3