Songwriting article, dropped-D lesson

A couple of new articles were just published that might be of interest to songwriters and guitarists. The new issue of Making Music (Jan/Feb) includes my article on getting started with songwriting (adapted from my book The Complete Singer-Songwriter). Here's the link:

http://www.makingmusicmag.com/columns_dev/show-column.php?pageid=82

Also, the Feb. issue of Acoustic Guitar includes a couple articles I wrote, including this guitar lesson in the basics of dropped-D tuning. You can read it and hear the music at the AG site:

http://acousticguitar.com/article/default.aspx?articleid=23045

Happy new year...
JPR