I bought a McIlroy A35c a while ago, but won't take delivery til January. Fabulous! cant wait to try fingerstyle and trad music on it! Bit worried now though as at the moment I play a Taylor 614 out, and its great for the kind of music we do: Bowie, Dylan, even Nirvana (all hard strumming songs). What I am worried about though is, will the A35c be as good at the hard strumming as it will be with the fingerstyle!?
If you're good at fingerstyle, why whould you ever want to go back to strum n' bash, noise and crap folk rock sh*te? : )
Seriously, if I could play good fingerstyle or have very light, very developed attack with a plectrum to accompany good trad melody players, I wouldn't waste my time with anything else. I'd certainly not want for work in my part of the world - we have an overload of terrible strummers but very few competent pickers who respect the melodies. Just a thought, do as you will : )
McIlroy A35c - Trad vs Folk Rock
McIlroy A35c - Trad vs Folk Rock
Hi all again
I bought a McIlroy A35c a while ago, but won't take delivery til January. Fabulous! cant wait to try fingerstyle and trad music on it! Bit worried now though as at the moment I play a Taylor 614 out, and its great for the kind of music we do: Bowie, Dylan, even Nirvana (all hard strumming songs). What I am worried about though is, will the A35c be as good at the hard strumming as it will be with the fingerstyle!?
# Posted on October 20th 2005 by Edja
Re: McIlroy A35c - Trad vs Folk Rock
If you're good at fingerstyle, why whould you ever want to go back to strum n' bash, noise and crap folk rock sh*te? : )
Seriously, if I could play good fingerstyle or have very light, very developed attack with a plectrum to accompany good trad melody players, I wouldn't waste my time with anything else. I'd certainly not want for work in my part of the world - we have an overload of terrible strummers but very few competent pickers who respect the melodies. Just a thought, do as you will : )
# Posted on October 21st 2005 by Hanley
Re: McIlroy A35c - Trad vs Folk Rock
Edja,
All else being equal (which it rarely is), I think a spruce top would do better for hard strumming better than the cedar top you ordered.
You'll find that the McIlroys are loud and responsive, and that you won't have to work as hard to get a lot of sound out of it.
Jeff W
# Posted on October 23rd 2005 by jeff_willner