{"id":144084,"date":"2024-03-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=144084"},"modified":"2024-03-12T12:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:05:56","slug":"5-minute-lesson-julian-lage-teaches-you-how-to-get-great-acoustic-guitar-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/5-minute-lesson-julian-lage-teaches-you-how-to-get-great-acoustic-guitar-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Minute Lesson: Julian Lage Teaches You How to Get Great Acoustic Guitar Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"5 Minute Lesson: Julian Lage Teaches You How to Get Great Acoustic Guitar Tone\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0IqfmTFWaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Julian Lage is widely celebrated for his seemingly limitless technique on both the acoustic and electric guitar, as well as his sheer inventiveness as an improviser and composer. But the beauty of his steel-string tone\u2014especially apparent on 2015\u2019s&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3v7enuT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World\u2019s Fair<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and his most recent Blue Note album,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48DQWr3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Speak to Me<\/a><\/em>\u2014seems to attract less attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lage gives a hint as to how he achieves that sound in this five-minute lesson that he filmed exclusively for\u00a0<em>AG<\/em>, a sort of follow-up to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/5-minute-lesson-practice-warm-up-tips-by-julian-lage\/\">this article<\/a>. In the video, Lage demonstrates an exercise he learned from Debi Adams, a pianist and specialist in the Alexander technique of body awareness and movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea is to start with a \u201creset chord\u201d\u2014any voicing you find resonant on your instrument, like the open D5 (shown below) that Lage demonstrates using his <a href=\"https:\/\/reverb.grsm.io\/ag?query=Collings%20OM1A%20JL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signature-model Collings OM1A JL<\/a>\u2014and loosen any tension in your body. Play the chord in a steady rhythm, focusing on how it resonates in your hands, picking arm, chest, and leg and adding each point of contact one by one. In other words, just as a guitar\u2019s body is a resonant cavity, so is yours, and being attuned to this can result in deeper and more nuanced tone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.webp?resize=481%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"D5 guitar chord diagram, musical notation, and tablature\" class=\"wp-image-144089\" style=\"width:296px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.webp?w=481&amp;ssl=1 481w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.webp?resize=235%2C500&amp;ssl=1 235w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.webp?resize=141%2C300&amp;ssl=1 141w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think this is a wonderful way to recalibrate with the instrument, let us calm down our nervous system, get a bigger sound, and most importantly, just enjoy the beauty of an acoustic guitar,\u201d Lage says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To learn more about Julian Lage, and for transcriptions of his work, see the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/store.acousticguitar.com\/collections\/back-issues\/products\/no-304-april-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">April 2018<\/a> and &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/store.acousticguitar.com\/collections\/back-issues\/products\/no-341-july-august-2023\">July\/August 2023<\/a> issues of <\/em>Acoustic Guitar <em>magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is a wonderful way to recalibrate with the instrument, let us calm down our nervous system, and get a bigger sound&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":144086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"\u201cI think this is a wonderful way to recalibrate with the instrument, let us calm down our nervous system, get a bigger sound, and most importantly, just enjoy the beauty of an acoustic guitar,\u201d Lage says.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1152],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1541],"class_list":["post-144084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-play-like"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Julian-Lage-Acoustic-Guitar-Tone-Tips-e1710270290999.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1","authors":[{"term_id":1541,"user_id":24,"is_guest":0,"slug":"adam-perlmutterstringletter-com","display_name":"Adam Perlmutter","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Adam-Perlmutter.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Adam-Perlmutter.jpg"},"user_url":"","last_name":"Perlmutter","first_name":"Adam","job_title":"","description":"Adam Perlmutter holds a bachelor of music degree from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and a master's degree in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory. 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