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Natethegreat « Excellent for Bluegrass Crosspicking »
Published on 03/05/21 at 07:28
Best value:
Excellent
Audience:
Advanced Users
I purchased the Tacoma a few years ago because it was a very good deal for an all solid wood American made instruments. I paid $150.00. My first impression was that it was not a strumming instrument. But... I find this to hold true for the dreadnought body style in general. I do not understand why people strum large bodied guitars, their large cavity will not let go of resonances with the speed of smaller OM or 00 guitars. On the other hand, this dreadnought is very well designed for bluegrass Crosspicking, sweep picking, Django jazz, and chord melody arrangements.
It excels at adding deep resonance to slow moving broken chord arrangements using the above mentioned techniques. This guitar wants you to hold on to notes in arpeggios and nuance those strings during the decays with a little flexion. It will sound hauntingly beautiful played this way or like a harp or African kora.
This is a guitar that wants you to use a Dunlop 2.5 mm pick, not a flimsy piece of latex. One person mentioned a bright tone, I would say this would be string gauge dependent. I’m using medium/heavy gauge copper/bronze and it’s very much a dense mid and bass heavy tone.
This guitar loves drop d tuning. Just a simple low e dropped to add a huge drone note to play over during broken chord and arpeggiated passages can sound fantastic.
All in all this instrument changed the way I approach the guitar. It forced me to learn it’s strengths and weaknesses and therefor it taught me to crosspick and seek out chord melody style arrangements.
The Tacoma dm10 is a guitar that guides you into a playing style that fits its tonal palate and with that came many lessons on styles of playing I had previously not approached. Love when that happens.
Tacoma DM10:
Bad For: beginners, strummers, finger styles, small weak hands.
Good for: bluegrass, crosspicking, chord melody, harp style, slow pieces, slow decays, Dunlop 2.5 mm pick.
It excels at adding deep resonance to slow moving broken chord arrangements using the above mentioned techniques. This guitar wants you to hold on to notes in arpeggios and nuance those strings during the decays with a little flexion. It will sound hauntingly beautiful played this way or like a harp or African kora.
This is a guitar that wants you to use a Dunlop 2.5 mm pick, not a flimsy piece of latex. One person mentioned a bright tone, I would say this would be string gauge dependent. I’m using medium/heavy gauge copper/bronze and it’s very much a dense mid and bass heavy tone.
This guitar loves drop d tuning. Just a simple low e dropped to add a huge drone note to play over during broken chord and arpeggiated passages can sound fantastic.
All in all this instrument changed the way I approach the guitar. It forced me to learn it’s strengths and weaknesses and therefor it taught me to crosspick and seek out chord melody style arrangements.
The Tacoma dm10 is a guitar that guides you into a playing style that fits its tonal palate and with that came many lessons on styles of playing I had previously not approached. Love when that happens.
Tacoma DM10:
Bad For: beginners, strummers, finger styles, small weak hands.
Good for: bluegrass, crosspicking, chord melody, harp style, slow pieces, slow decays, Dunlop 2.5 mm pick.