LA-based guitarist, composer, and educator Evan Hirschelman dropped by our booth at NAMM to play excerpts from a pair of pieces called “Introduction” and “Pace and Approach” (the latter from his album Water in Darkness) on a Kenny Hill signature guitar. Hirschelman has written for such notables as the the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Xuefei Yang, and is the author of the well-regarded book Acoustic Artistry: Tapping, Slapping, and Percussion Techniques for Classical & Fingerstyle Guitar and the forthcoming Classical Guitar Chops (due in April), in which he discusses the evolution of CG technique.