Mickey Cochran has over 30 years' experience as a professional multi-instrumentalist. His dedication to acoustic music continues today through his writing, teaching, recording and web development career.
Mickey Cochran has over 30 years' experience as a professional multi-instrumentalist. He has performed and recorded all styles of music as applied to the octave mandolin, mandola, banjo, mandolin, Dobro®, and acoustic guitar. He has also worked for many years as a music instructor utilizing his own teaching methodologies; these very same unique methods are well reflected throughout his published titles. Mickey always believed that it's far more valuable to establish a solid foundation with proper positioning on an instrument before learning one song after another as is usually taught in standard songbooks. His dedication to acoustic music continues today through his writing, teaching, recording and web development career. "Acoustic Forest Mission
To carry forward the acoustic music flag. To promote pure and unadulterated acoustic music at its zenith. To promote an all natural, nature-made music with pure taste.
No matter what the genre, acoustic music, as created with wood and steel, is here to stay. Here at Acoustic Forest, we believe acoustic string instruments are the ultimate medium for recording ... in too many ways to count.
1. Have you ever sat and just listened to the sounds of nature in its natural pristine state. The textured sounds are endless and multi-layered. W.C. Handy wrote in his autobiography that nature inspired him to play. It was the sound of nature in his hometown of Florence, Alabama, that he tried to recreate through his horn. He is considered today the "Father of the Blues".
2. I've always believed everything tastes better if it's eaten as close to nature as possible. Well, this truism also applies to music: the closer an instrument is to nature and its natural tones, the richer the harmonic range and the more pleasant to the ears the music becomes.
3. What is harmonious in nature is harmonious to us. It seems that the more synthetic and the more distant something is from nature, the more dissonant it becomes.
4. Acoustic music is timeless. The medium itself becomes the message. The genres that come and go seem to have very little to do with the medium. The acoustic medium has withstood itself for thousands of years in spite of what's been dictated as fashionable.
I'd rather be sitting on a rock in an acoustic forest, listening to a gurgling brook, while playing my acoustic guitar ... than be caught up in today's fast-paced, noisy concrete world!"
Mickey Cochran
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