WORSHIP GUITAR TALK
WITH DANIEL CARSON //
Acoustic Tips and Tricks, Part I
By Doug Doppler
For nearly twenty years, Daniel Carson has
been Chris Tomlin’s go-to electric and acoustic
guitarist. If you (or someone on your team) is
interested in upping their acoustic game, tune
into this column for the next several issues as
Daniel shares his acoustic tips and tricks.
[WM] Daniel, you started off on acoustic,
right?
[Daniel Carson] Correct, yes, that was my
first love obsession. In the beginning acoustic
was my first love and the thing that I really kind
of fell in love with. My dad played acoustic guitar,
he always had acoustic guitars at the house,
and he loved lots of acoustic music, and he led
worship at out church on acoustic guitar, so I
was around it a lot, it was just kind of a natural
thing to be drawn to. In the nineties when I was
learning there were a lot of acoustic bands and
it was kind of popular, it was a good time for
the acoustic guitar I would say. I was obsessed
with learning as much as I could about that.
There were bands doing different tunings, and
cool chord shapes, and I was learning all sorts
of things from them, whether it was worship
artists, or Caedmon’s Call, or Dave Mathews
Band, or any of those, James Taylor was a big
influence, any of those acoustic guys I could
get my hands on I was just trying to figure all
of it out.
Looking back one thing I really am thankful
for is that I learned how to make the guitar
speak as an instrument on its own, you know,
which is what you learn when you first pick
up an acoustic guitar. If you learn on electric
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March 2019
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