13 Facts About Preston Reed

Preston Reed was born on April 13,1955 and is an American fingerstyle guitarist.

Preston Reed is noted for a two-handed playing style and compositional approach that uses the guitar's body as a percussion instrument.

Preston Reed began to compose his own songs in the style of Leo Kottke and John Fahey.

Preston Reed plays with his fingers, thumbs, fists and hands at once.

Preston Reed is a player of blues or ballads reminiscent of Bill Evans, one of his musical idols.

Preston Reed uses slap and tap techniques like slap harmonics or the generation of notes or whole chords with his left hand.

Preston Reed uses both hands for tapping and frets chords with his right hand.

Preston Reed often plays with both hands from above the guitar's neck.

In many of his compositions, Preston Reed uses alternate tunings characterized by very low bass string tunings, for example BGDGAD or CGDGGD.

On his first recording Preston Reed used a Martin D28 12-string and a Martin D28 6-string.

Preston Reed later used guitars made by the American luthier Michael Jacobson-Hardy.

Preston Reed now plays his signature models, acoustic Jumbo and Baritone from Bailey Guitars.

Preston Reed recorded his 2007 album Spirit with a semi-acoustic Yamaha AE-2000 guitar.