Mike Dawes Percussive Acoustic app for iPhone and iPad

Percussive Acoustic Guitar with Mike Dawes is a comprehensive and interactive tuition app for iOS devices.

Want to get more out of your acoustic guitar?

In this application, players are given over fifty minutes of detailed video instruction in this popular guitar style by one of the worlds leading performers of percussive acoustic guitar. This application is suitable for players of beginner/intermediate level all the way through to advanced. Each of the eighteen exercises feature a video demonstration from Mike with follow along tab to see what is being played when. The apps tab player allows you to hear the exercise being played at any tempo (20-200bpm in 5bpm increments).

Mike Dawes is a 24 year old English guitar player and touring musician. He is hailed as one of the world’s finest fingerstyle performers.

His acclaimed solo music, littered with nuances and micro-techniques, has seen him tour almost every continent on the planet. He has recorded with and sessioned for multiple GRAMMY award-wining artists, appeared on film and TV advert soundtracks, written for and been published in international music magazines, as well as achieving viral YouTube hits in the millions.

Additionally, Mike currently tours as Justin Hayward’s lead guitar player, performing Moody Blues classics throughout the USA.

Check out Mikes viral percussive guitar cover of Gotyes smash hit Somebody That I Used To Know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bzUaf_gvU

This app features:

* Introduction and overview of the modern percussive acoustic guitar genre, including Mikes gear.

* An introduction to DADGAD tuning and associated chord theory

* Lessons in producing realistic drum sounds from your acoustic guitar

* Advanced right hand picking techniques, allowing users to seamlessly perform drum patterns in unison with conventional guitar parts

* Introduction to two handed tapping and how to combine bass, melody, harmony and percussion

* Advanced Over the Top style combining a variety of modern guitar techniques.

* Eighteen exercises demonstrated by Mike at different tempos

* Interactive TAB viewer with detailed transcriptions of each exercise

* Tab player that replays exercises at the tempo you want

All video content is downloaded with this app when you purchase it from the app store, so no need to stream content while you practise.